Folk Music Ontario conference travelogue: Saturday, Sept. 29
Noon – My showcase-watching for the day kicks off at the Coax Records showcase, Coax being the record label belonging to Rae Spoon. Rae’s got an impressive roster of established acts, such as the boundary-pushing Geoff Berner and the award-winning ...
Folk Music Ontario conference travelogue: Friday, Sept. 28
8:45 a.m. – I arrive at the Hilton near the Toronto Airport already exhausted after getting up at 4 a.m. to catch my plane. The hotel can’t check me in until after noon, but there’s a breakfast buffet for conference-goers ...
John Mellencamp just launched a massive Canadian tour. Mersereau ...
John Mellencamp’s taking a bit of a victory lap across Canada this fall, a lengthy, coast-to-coast trek over six weeks, with a generous 24 shows from Halifax to Abbotsford, B.C. It’s an extension of his Sad Clowns & Hillbillies tour from 2017, ...
Roots Music Canada is at the Folk Music Ontario conference ...
Have you ever wondered how folk festivals choose all the artists that play there each year? I mean of course the headliners are picked based on their ability to sell tickets. That is, after all, why you see pop stars ...
Kyp Harness shares video for “Sweet Release” from self-titled album ...
One of Canada’s truly under-appreciated singer/songwriters Kyp Harness returns on Oct. 19 with his fourteenth album, simply entitled Kyp Harness, a collection of nine timely observations of our fraying society, rendered with all the wit, wisdom and just the right ...
Naming the Twins launches a new single “One Storm from ...
Fresh off a string of Nova Scotia performances, East Coast folk duo Naming the Twins released their new single “One Storm From Home” on Sept. 21, from their upcoming fourth full-length album Sing The Winter Away, a seasonal but adaptable ...
Maria Dunn’s 20th anniversary at Festival Place in Sherwood Park, ...
Reflecting back on the past 20 years, 2017 Juno nominee Maria Dunn feels much gratitude at being able to earn a living doing what she loves to do. Her career has allowed her to travel the world, collaborate and/or perform with artists that ...
In it together: what I remember most from a wild ...
“You’re going to be performing in caves,” my husband said proudly and excitedly as he walked into my “office”. I say “office” in quotations because we’d managed to turn our small 1+1 apartment into a 1+2 offices. It was spring, ...
Ottawa CityFolk, Sept. 12-16
Last week was hot – sweltering, muggy, sweating-just-standing-there hot. We both donned t-shirts and shorts to prepare for the steamy days ahead. And boy, did this year’s CityFolk Festival in downtown Ottawa deliver great music. Wednesday, Sept. 12 On Wednesday ...