Andrea Nixon is coming at you like an ‘Earthquake’ on ...
As anticipation builds for her forthcoming album, Barbed Wire Dreams, Andrea Nixon is sharing a new single, “Earthquake,” a song as emotionally devastating as its title suggests. Rooted in a swampy blues groove, “Earthquake” follows the previous two samples of ...
Roots Music Canada presents the Pretty Archie LIVE from the ...
Cape Breton quintet Pretty Archie is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a brand new self-titled album released Feb 11 on Curve Music/Warner Music. They launched it March 16 with a live performance at the Savoy Theatre in Glace ...
Youngtree & The Blooms set to return with new album ...
Youngtree & The Blooms are a fun, tight, hard-working band who can be counted on to liven up rooms and create pin-drop moments in equal measure. They’ve drawn comparisons to “late ‘60s Dylan and Gram Parsons” (Exclaim!) but labels fit ...
Elizabeth Szekeres gets us ready for this year’s Festival Mémoire ...
I might just have to clone myself about four times to go to everything I want to see on this year’s program at Festival Mémoire et Racines in Joliette, QC. After two years of restricted pandemic programming, this great festival ...
Durham County Poets are “Back at the Groove Shack,’ with ...
There’s no stopping anyone with the right attitude and some ambition, and for Canadian powerhouse blues band Durham County Poets, the drive to get “Back at the Groove Shack” after our pandemic pause is creatively evident with their soulful new ...
Live music is back. Lisa Giuseppina Iesse checks ...
We are bringing in the light We are singing through the longest night When Eve Goldberg and Jane Lewis of Gathering Sparks sung these lyrics for their album All That’s Real, released in September 2019, they could not have known the ...
Cynthia Hamar shares hard earned experience on new single ‘Shaken’
On her new single “Shaken,” Cynthia Hamar engages in an internal conversation about trauma. Over a subtly soulful musical backdrop, the Edmonton-based Americana artist conveys the struggle to let go of the pain in every heart-wrenching note delivered by her ...
Check out the super unique harmonies of Lunar Bloom
Harmonizing trio Lunar Bloom has just released its debut full-length album Running Deep, and we’re big fans of it here at Roots Music Canada. Lunar Bloom is Brittany Rae Robinson, Kelly McNamee and Jocelyn Regina, a Toronto-based trio rooted in the folk tradition. ...
The Maple Blues Awards 2022
“Nobody from here grew up in the blues,” said singer Shakura S’Aida, after she was presented with the distinguished Blues With A Feeling Maple Blues Award at last night’s ceremony at Koerner Hall. ”You have only adopted the music.” Her ...
Nat’l Indigenous People’s Day: new additions to our Indigenous ...
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: there’s no point in trying to make a list of just five or six great new recordings by Indigenous artists these days. Like, half of the great new Canadian music out ...