Like speed-dating for songwriters? Canadian Songwriter Challenge kicks off ...
The Canadian Song Conference kicks off in Prince Edward Island today, and with it, the Canadian Songwriter Challenge. For the past four years, Music PEI has been partnering with other provincial music industry associations to pair Island songwriters with other ...
Comm-Unification: Toronto Reggae Conference Apr. 29, 2018
In the fifty years since reggae music began to germinate on Canadian soil, the community that supports it has shown demonstrable ingenuity in publicizing and presenting itself to an ever-increasing fan base. Its combination of aggressive street-level marketing, immediate radio ...
Photographer Jen Squires talks about that viral Christa Couture photo ...
Yesterday here on Roots Music Canada we brought you an interview with Christa Couture, whose pregnancy photos, conceived to create visibility for pregnant women with disabilities, have become a worldwide viral sensation – with features everywhere from Yahoo to the Independent. ...
Christa Couture talks getting world famous … for her pregnancy ...
Fans, friends and colleagues of Christa Couture have been doing a lot of this lately: “Wow! Christa’s in the Daily Mail!” “Holy Shit! Now she’s in the Independent!” “Oh look, she’s in MetroUK too!” Since she first unveiled her pregnancy ...
The Fretless: Where a string quartet meets a pub ...
They may not have any frets on those instruments, but the sounds the four musicians make on the fiddles in this foursome are like nothing you’ve ever heard at a folk festival. It’s a string quartet that plays fiddle tunes ...
Georgian Bay – “Canyon” (video)
We talk a lot about mental illness these days and the need to end the stigma around it. But with one song and video, Toronto-based duo Georgian Bay has moved well past all that. Their new song, “Canyon,” is an ...
Lenka Lichtenberg returns to her Czech roots on Masaryk
Over the course of the past 20 years, Toronto’s Lenka Lichtenberg has established herself as one of Canada’s foremost Yiddish singers and composers. The daughter of a Czech survivor of the Terezin concentration camp who had raised her with no connection to ...
Successful Strategies For Booking House Concerts (Part 2)
Last week on Roots Music Canada, house concert promoter Joanna Mills brought us Part I of her series on booking successful house concerts. It led to lots of great discussion over on the Roots Music Canada Facebook page. Today, we’re ...
Colin Linden at the ANZA Club, Vancouver, May 11, 2018
If you were one of the 70 people at the Anza Club in Vancouver on Friday, CONGRATULATIONS! YOU’RE A WINNER! You just witnessed a consummate artist perform a great show in an intimate living room-type setting with great sound and ...
Folk Alliance International reveals details about Montreal conference in Feb.
A significant, almost suspicious number of folk folks were noticed rootsing around in broad daylight at the Rivoli on Toronto’s Queen Street West on the Friday afternoon of Canadian Music Week. Scoop is that Folk Alliance International will be holding ...