Monthly Archives: March 2021

News

Joseph Brooks Organ unpacks a love ultimately lost on Lovelorn

Canadian singer-songwriter Joseph Brooks Organ is anything but bereft as he celebrates the release of his freshly pressed album offering, Lovelorn — available now. From start to finish, lush arrangements reinforce Joseph’s lyrical storytelling, field guiding listeners along a narrative ...
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Wow! Check out the Canadian Folk Music Awards performer ...

The Canadian Folk Music Awards are excited to announce the full line-up and programming schedule for the 2021 awards week, featuring six virtual shows in all that will include 33 nominee performances over the course of five days. The 16th ...
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Matt Morson has written a lot of ballads, but this ...

After making his official comeback last summer, Nobleton, ON singer Matt Morson has released a new single called “Take a Chance.” Though the powerful country ballad sounds like a bit of a different approach for the artist, it’s actually a ...
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Rob Lutes is set to release Come Around on April ...

If you’re a fan of the wonderful, Montreal singer-songwriter Rob Lutes, you’ll be thrilled to know he’s got a new album coming out April 16. Recorded in fall 2020, Come Around is the follow-up to Walk in the Dark (2017), for ...
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When Al Parrish isn’t play music, he’s promoting co-housing. Check ...

She ran into our house shouting, “I never want summer camp to end!” That was my partner’s reaction to our neighbourhood. She felt the same kind of joy, freedom, and friendship in the place and with the people who lived ...
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Justin Rutledge revisits his best-loved songs in minimalist fashion

The release of Islands, the latest album from singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge, is not a re-do of songs he was dissatisfied with the first time they were recorded. Instead, this album of bare-bones versions of some of Justin’s best-loved songs is ...
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Have a listen to F-105’s new music

When he’s not writing and performing as Nadjiwan, Marc Meriläinen produces live music events, and works with emerging artists as a producer, co-writer, mentor – you name it really. In fact, he had been working closely with Kelly Fraser before ...
Album review

Nicolas Boulerice – Maison de Pierres 

It is said that English is a very technical language, and that in contrast, French is much more poetic. You hear this nature of the language very clearly on this new recording in the perfect and atmospheric singing of Nicolas ...
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Songs for the Revolution – International Women’s Day

I’d like to begin this article by acknowledging my privilege as a male-identifying, white passing person of mixed ethnicity. I am writing this article from so-called Ottawa, and I acknowledge that this is unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory. Language, I believe, ...
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Craig Cardiff releases the single & title track to his ...

Waterloo-raised, Ottawa-based indie folk artist Craig Cardiff sets out on his latest musical journey with his warm and gripping new single “All This Time Running” ahead of his new album of the same name. The three-minute-six-second single is an indirect ...