Our Top 10 stories of 2020
It’s time once again here at Roots Music Canada to publish our list of our top 10 stories of the year based on the number of times people read them. This year we filtered it a touch to exclude uber ...
Gordy the Moose’s 11 favourite discoveries of 2020 from the ...
It’s that time of the year again! The time when Gordy the Moose shares his favourite new discoveries from all of the submissions sent to the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox this year. Every month or so, Gordy goes through ...
How the Dardanelles got members from 3 cities together to ...
Coordinating the schedule of a five-piece band so they can rehearse and record a new album can be a logistical challenge at the best of times. But when three members live in St. John’s, NL and are busy with other ...
A video slide show of the Roots Music Canada Secret ...
This year here at Roots Music Canada, we decided to make the COVID holidays a little less of a bummer by finding a way to connect the community remotely — through a Secret Santa gift exchange! Artists, and industry people ...
Heather’s 2020 holiday love letter to the Roots Music Canada ...
It’s hard to know what to say about 2020 that doesn’t sound like a cliché at this point. Like many of you I’m sure, I sometimes find myself feeling as though I’m limping toward the finish line of a bizarre ...
River North’s latest single derives from a poem Heather Christine’s ...
Toronto-based artists Heather Christine and Matt Zaddy have connected their life partnership into a formal musical one to release their debut single, “This Too Shall Pass,” as the folk duo River North. “This song began as a poem written by ...
Lynn Miles Didn’t Have a Video for ‘High Heels in ...
Wrapped in shivers, a little porn queen waits to do someone’s bidding, anyone who can take her off of her cold winter corner into the dingy shelter of a temporary, albeit warmer, bedroom. It’s a Christmas song. Lynn Miles had ...
Holiday recipes from our favourite artists: Tennyson King’s homemade ...
Here at Roots Music Canada, we, like you, have been more than a little bummed about being stuck at home for the last few months, unable to see live music or spend holidays with our loved ones out of town. ...
James Cohen and the Prairie Roots Rockers have revisited a ...
Winnipeg’s James Cohen and the Prairie Roots Rockers have dipped into their archives once again to release a new video for their single “Dreaming My Life Away.” A pull from their self-titled 2011 12-track LP, the song follows the album’s ...
Holiday recipes from our favourite artists: Maryem Tollar’s molokheyya soup
One of the things that’s gotten a lot of us through this crazy pandemic year has been getting back to the simple things in life: knitting, sewing, gardening, canning, baking and cooking, among other things. So we here at ...