Alt-Folk Rockers Village Manor Implore the World to Put “Gunsaway” ...
Canadian alt-folk act Village Manor are encouraging the act of “Gunsaway” with the release of their new single. The plea was inspired by how “tired everyone is waking up every morning to the news of gun violence on a consistent ...
2022 Juno nominee Donné Roberts celebrates community with ‘Seheno’
It’s a big, diverse world out there, and living in any supportive and caring community can help us thrive. Multi-award-winning Madagascar singer-songwriter Donné Roberts has experienced that nurturing feeling of community in his adoptive home of Toronto, and he represents ...
Canadian Folk Music Awards to go ahead March 31 to ...
The 2022 Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA) are returning to Prince Edward Island to host the 17th annual awards celebrations in Charlottetown. Following two years of virtual events, the CFMA board is pleased to be bringing back live performances to ...
Meet the new executive director of Folk Music Ontario
Rosalyn Dennett becomes the new executive director of Folk Music Ontario on April 1 – and no, that’s not an April Fools joke – but she already has a long history with the organization. A singer-songwriter and fiddler, who founded ...
Edison Rupert tells a tale of hard living on ‘Ticket ...
Life can be punishing, and the world can be a cruel place, and sometimes we just want someone to lay it all out how it really is, without varnish or artifice. Canadian indie folk-rocker Edison Rupert does just that on ...
Toronto alt-country singer-songwriter Meredith Lazowski releases debut single ‘Prairie’
Toronto alt-country singer-songwriter Meredith Lazowski shares “Prairie,” the lead single from her forthcoming debut album, Other Way Home. After training and working as a visual designer for several years, Meredith has returned to her musical roots, capturing moments in time ...
Check out Toronto Tabla’s new single with Bif Naked ...
Ground-breaking musical collective Toronto Tabla Ensemble (TTE) and legendary Indian-born Canadian artist Bif Naked mystify with cutting-edge sonics and sophisticated grooves on their latest jaw-dropping single, “Prayer for the Mother.” Celebrating their 30th anniversary, Toronto Tabla Ensemble has released a blistering new album, ...
How Just a Season pursued the perfect sound
Throughout the history of recorded music, the search for that elusive “perfect sound” has taken various avenues. Phil Spector’s ‘Wall Of Sound” was created by doubling or even tripling the number of musicians playing drums, guitars or keyboards on the ...
Toronto’s Alanna Matty releases self-produced single ‘End Up Alone’
Toronto singer-songwriter and producer Alanna Matty explores a relationship crossroads with pop-folk single “End Up Alone” from her forthcoming album, Thoughts // Feelings. “I wrote this song in the middle of the night, listening to my partner breathing as he ...
Q&A: Ben Sures talks about his latest album, The Story ...
Ben Sures is a storyteller. On his tenth album, The Story That Lived Here, the Edmonton-based songwriter, guitarist and author weaves tales inspired by friends and fans. They are songs about library ladies and dive bar denizens, accidents and grieving, ...