This summer’s cross-Canada festival road trip in links!
Folks, it’s been one heck of a summer here at Roots Music Canada, and I am one exhausted moose! Two months after we signed ourselves back on-line, I had this crazy idea: What if we could find writers all across ...
Acoustic Harvest is moving!
So here’s the big news: Acoustic Harvest-Live Music East is moving, and we’ll be kicking off our 22nd season (Sept-June) on Sept. 5 with the world-renowned Zimbabwe a cappella and dance troupe, Black Umfolosi, followed by A Cabaret Evening with ...
Joe Jencks – The Forgotten: Recovered Treasures from the Pen ...
Normally Roots Music Canada showcases just Canadian artists, but here we are making an exception. Joe Jencks, from Chicago, IL must be some kind of honorary Canadian since he engaged so many talented Canadians on this new album: The Forgotten, ...
The Great Lake Swimmers – The Waves, The Wake (a ...
Roots Music Canada writer Paul Corby offers us a unique review of Great Lake Swimmers’ new album, The Waves The Wake, in poetry and visual art. Have a listen to the album after reading the poem and looking at the ...
Gordie Tentrees – Grit
When I was asked if I would listen to a new album by a fella from Whitehorse, I got very excited. Unbeknownst to my editor I grew up in a small town in the Yukon. My mind wandered through the ...
The Sutton Fiddle Festival – A photo album
The festival site in Sutton, QC Anit Ghosh Véronique Plasse and Andrea Beaton Pete’s Posse. Pete Sutherland, Oliver Scanlon and Tristan Henderson Pascal Gemme and the fiddling children Alexis Chartrand and Nicolas Babineau ÉTÉ Jamming in the park Rhizome The ...
The Small World Music Festival – Day 2 and 3
Gracious weather returned for Saturday’s slate, initiated with three symposia, held indoors at the Brigantine Room, featuring a set of media movers and shakers, a rebel brigade of cross-cultural adventurers and Brenna MacCrimmon’s moving testament to the power of instinctual ...
Belle Plaine shares “Golden Ring” video from upcoming album Malice, ...
Belle Plaine grew up in a remote Saskatchewan village of 45 souls, but she has always displayed a knack for living dynamically, bounding from one creative pursuit to the next. Her third full-length album, Malice, Mercy, Grief and Wrath, coming ...
The Small World Music Festival – Day 1 (Friday)
The 17th edition of the Small World Music Festival, an essentially free event expressing the variety and caliber of global music artists, was held this past weekend over three days at Toronto’s Harbourfront Center. In the beginning, there was no ...
The Sutton Fiddle Festival: a recap by Elizabeth Szekeres
The fifth annual Sutton Fiddle Festival took place once more, Aug. 16-19, 2018, in the charming bilingual village of Sutton in the southern mountains of Québec, not far from the Vermont border. This small festival just keeps on getting better ...