Who is Ghislaine Cormier, the winner of the CFMA Unsung ...
The board of the Canadian Folk Music Awards announced late last week that Ghislaine Cormier is the recipient of this year’s Unsung Hero Award. The award recognizes the contributions of people working behind the scenes, often without recognition or adequate ...
Corby’s photo album from Winterfolk 2023
Winterfolk 2023 wrapped up in Toronto yesterday. Brian Gladstone’s Annual folk-stravaganza re-situated itself into Kensington Market for the first time this year, with an aggregate of trad, rad and late-by-a-tad performances involving over a hundred artists and bands. Over seven ...
5 more Black Canadian roots and world artists to discover ...
Here at Roots Music Canada we’ll jump on any opportunity to boost great artists from marginalized communities, so please don’t be waiting until February to let us know if you’ve heard a Black artist who deserves our attention. But we ...
Andrina Turenne, formerly of Juno winners Chic Gamine, goes solo ...
Calling Andrina Turenne’s new album, Bold As Logs, her debut feels like a bit of a misnomer. The Winnipeg singer-songwriter has, after all, graced stages across five continents and has lent her voice—as a member or a guest—to more than ...
Steve Dawson – ‘Let Him Go Mama’
Roots music Renaissance man Steve Dawson isn’t a fan of idle time, so when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down touring and put a temporary damper on his career as a record producer, Steve used the time to write and record ...
10 Canadian blues acts recommend by ChatGPT – because we ...
We’ve been running a series of experiments here at Roots Music Canada asking Open AI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, to recommend music for us. Like many people who have adopted the bot as their latest time-waster, we’re just curious to see what ...
Silka Weil sings about using art to unlock her potential ...
Most artists fumble the first time they get into a studio. In the case of Montreal singer Silka Weil and her debut single, “Capsized,” she knocked it out of the park. Maybe that’s because the song dates back to her ...
How the Bookends ended up collaborating with the Stratford Symphony
The new live album, A Celtic Celebration, by the Stratford Ontario quartet The Bookends is a collaboration with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra. The concerts, recorded last June at The Avondale, were the finale of the symphony’s 17th season. It was ...
Proposed new U.S. fees could make it much harder for ...
If COVID-19 hasn’t already caused enough pain for Canadian musicians, they could soon face another major setback: massive fee hikes to apply for the visas they need to tour in the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ...
We asked ChatGPT to recommend some Canadian world music. Here’s ...
Last week, we asked ChatGPT to recommend some emerging Canadian folk artists for us. We were curious to see what it would come up with, and while it employed a very liberal definition of the word “emerging,” we couldn’t argue ...