Too few people have seen this awesome Ronnie Earl video
Ronnie Earl may be well into his 60s, but he hasn’t lost an ounce of his cool, as is evidenced by this all-too-brief teaser video for his brand new album, Beyond the Blue Door, which came out Aug. 30 on ...
5 amazing Nov. double bills at Vancouver’s Rogue Folk Club ...
November at Vancouver’s Rogue Folk Club features some amazing twofers – everything from a Juno-winner paired with a WCMA nominee to a CBC Searchlight winner paired with a Juno nominee. Oh, and the two shows that aren’t double bills feature ...
Lydia Persaud on going solo and being a woman of ...
I’ve been a fan of Lydia Persaud ever since the very first time I saw her perform. It was a few years ago, when she opened an intimate show in the speakeasy-like lower level of Toronto’s Wenona Lodge that featured ...
Home Routes confirms its full house concert schedule for 2019-2020
The early concerts area already underway, but now Canada’s premiere coast-to-coast network of house concerts, Home Routes, has published its 2019/2020 full artist line-up and schedule, including – new this season! – the Newfoundland/Labrador route! The Home Routes concert season ...
Cowboy Junkies: the Roots Music Canada interview
The Cowboy Junkies will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame tonight during a private ceremony at the National Music Centre in Calgary. Ted Ferris sat down with Michael Timmins of the band last month during the Troubadour ...
Meet The Cassidys, Canada’s newest folk-pop duo
In mixing elements of indie pop and urban folk, Toronto-based duo The Cassidys is not easily categorized. But one listen to their debut album Tula — officially available Nov. 1 — makes it clear that their simple intention is to ...
Nick Sherman – ‘Made Of’
When he was young, Thunder Bay based singer-songwriter and guitarist Nick Sherman’s grandfather would pick him up in the wee hours from his parents’ place in Sioux Lookout and drive up the winter highway to North Caribou Lake First Nation. ...
Coco Love Alcorn – ‘Rebirth’ (lyric video)
I was a pretty big fan of Coco Love Alcorn’s set at the Moose n’ Fiddle Festival this year, so I’m pretty stoked that we get to premiere the lyric video for the title track to her forthcoming new album. ...
How Harrow Fair got so good so quick
I became a fan of Miranda Mulholland after seeing her perform with Great Lake Swimmers at the 2013 Kitchener Blues Festival. Her ability to bring the Swimmers’ songs to a whole other level and her expressive and powerful fiddle playing ...
Check out the Lifers’ new environmental activist song, ‘Tip’
The Lifers, led by sisters Liv and Anita Cazzola, are an art-folk collective from Guelph, ON whose intertwined voices dynamically convey vulnerability and strength, confronting the fragility of our world and ourselves. Canadian Folk Music Award nominees for Emerging Artist ...