5 Ghostly Canadian Folk Songs for Halloween
It’s not easy coming up with ideas for Halloween-themed song lists for Roots Music Canada. There isn’t really a Canadian folk equivalent of “The Monster Mash” or “The Time Warp.” We do do murder ballads awfully well, and a few ...
Dave Gunning on Life, Tour and His New Album
In spite of his modesty, Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Dave Gunning has reached substantial success in the folk music world. Dave, who has been nominated for a Juno Award, won two Canadian Folk Music Awards and eight East Coast Music Awards, ...
Digging Roots hit the road again with their new album, ...
Juno Award winners Digging Roots have just kicked off their new tour with two sold-out shows in the Aeolian Hall Performance Centre in London, ON. The duo of ShoShona Kish and Raven Kanatakta are performing their 21 shows across Canada ...
Mimi O’Bonsawin – ‘I Wish I Was a Farmer’
When I saw her at the Folk Music Ontario conference two weekends ago, Mimi O’Bonsawin handed me a package of marigold seeds. Honestly, I was pretty excited because I’m planning to grow my own marigolds next year. I’d even picked ...
Jan Vanderhorst’s second Just Us Folk book chronicles artists’ comeback ...
When Jan Vanderhorst released his first Just Us Folk book a year ago – a collection of stories derived from interviews with artists on the Just Us Folk podcast and first published here on Roots Music Canada – the onset ...
Sammy Duke encourages empathy on jangly, inspiring ‘Speed Of Life’
New mindsets and new beginnings can be challenging to usher in, but Waterloo, ON-based folk-rock artist Sammy Duke aims to motivate and inspire on his latest single “Speed Of Life” – available now – from his album of the same ...
Robinson Kirby releases a fresh folk ode to blossoming relationships ...
Last year, the Toronto-based folk-rock duo Robinson Kirby released a seven-song EP, Little Dreams, and a summer anthem, “Summer of Love.” Now, they add to their discography with a fresh folk jam, “Secret Lover.” The duo’s previous EP focused on ...
Here are the award winners from this year’s imagineNATIVE Film ...
Let’s face it, even the most devoted music fans among us don’t listen to music 24/7. We do enjoy other activities too – like movies and podcasts, for example. So I thought you might like to know who took home ...
Toronto folk artists take part in Music Declares Emergency climate ...
Musicians have long been at the forefront of environmental activism. Bruce Cockburn, after all, released “If a Tree Falls” back in 1988, which recognized that forests were the “climate control centres of the earth” and beef cattle were “methane dispensers.” ...
André Brunet marks 5 years with Le Vent du Nord
It’s been five years since Québec’s stunningly talented and charismatic fiddler, André Brunet, joined the lighthouse band Le Vent Du Nord, so we thought it would be a good time to chat and reflect on his life in music so ...