Canadianamericana: new country vs. true country at Americanafest
Heading down to the Nashville Americanafest, my heart is light. It’s the first time I’ve attended an event like this as an observer, rather than a participant. With no new record to promote or even a music career to speak ...
Kuri, Whiskey Jack, Naomi Kavka, and Rob Murphy
Gordy the Moose is back from the summer festivals to review some of his favourite new music from the submissions that have arrived in the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox. There’s so much to catch up on from the summer, ...
Corby sets up the Small World Music Festival in Toronto
Once again, Toronto’s Small World Music Festival, now in its 18th year, unfurls the whole world in our very laps for us. Offering a rich buffet of culturally diverse musical delicacies over the next two weekends, and foregoing the centrally-located ...
Robert Plant provides the coda to Ottawa CityFolk
The sun was shining Sunday afternoon at Ottawa CityFolk, and many people started streaming in with Led Zeppelin t-shirts and memorabilia. There was a little excitement in the air in anticipation of the night’s headline act. I arrived in time ...
Shari Ulrich Diptych – A Review in Prose and Poetry
i) There WILL be poetry. But first, for those of you who may be suspicious of rhyme schemes (or antsy with scansion), it is ultimately most important to know that Shari Ulrich has a new record out. A superlative follow-up ...
Ted Ferris sets up this weekend’s Troubadour Festival
The second annual Troubadour Festival kicks off in Barrie, ON this Friday evening. The-two day event, produced by Inside The Music, attracted 2,500 live music fans during its inaugural festival in 2018. With a lineup of 40 artists in eight ...
CityFolk pours on to the city streets
A harvest moon was rising. It was a cool September night. CityFolk was rambling in. We were treated to a perfect night to usher in the festivities. Lucinda Williams came out in a leather jacket, black nail polish, her “Get ...
How I Lost the Muse, Quit the Biz and Found ...
“You’re quitting music? Are you NUTS?” That was the unspoken reaction on their faces when I told them, after 20 years of chasing the music biz brass ring, that I was so over jumping through hoops. No more Photoshopped promo ...
Andrea Nixon releases timely new single ‘Stronger Than The Storm’
As she’s proven over the past two years, Edmonton singer-songwriter Andrea Nixon is an artist who believes that one’s life and one’s music are inseparable. That was the foundation of her acclaimed debut album, Diary Of A Housewife, and those ...
Ottawa’s CityFolk festival rambles in
Ottawa’s CityFolk festival is upon us, bringing some strong nostalgic headliners, such as Lucinda Williams and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant among others, along with a myriad of local acts. CityFolk a few years back introduced Marvest, an idea as I ...