5 songs about the truth of Residential Schools and their legacy
Trigger warning: this story discusses Residential Schools. If you have been impacted by Residential Schools and need support, you can reach out to the...
The Chat Room: Flint & Feather
Albertan folk/roots duo Flint & Feather are celebrating harvest season with their debut single “The Very Thing I Fear.” Best described as Rocky Mountain...
Album Reviews: Lydia Loveless, Brent Cobb, Clarence White
Lydia Loveless / Nothing’s Gonna Stand In My Way Again (Bloodshot Records) Since she escaped her rural Ohio town as a teenager in the mid-oughts,...
Selina Boland’s latest single was inspired by the loss of her mother
Selina Boland from St. John’s, NL is known for her acoustic folk with a touch of the Atlantic Ocean breeze. Her latest album, released...
How Erin Benjamin’s Estelle Klein award feels like coming full circle
When Folk Music Ontario executive director Rosalyn Dennett called up Erin Benjamin a couple of weeks ago to inform her that she’s this year’s...
Home Routes is back! Here’s the line-up for October
Canada's largest house concert network as returning this fall for the first series of in-person events since COVID-19 shut down the live music circuit...
Steve Pritchard hits the Delaware Valley Festival and makes note of the Canadian content
The Delaware Valley Festival is mounted each Labour Day weekend by the Brandy Wine Friends of Old Time Music. Now into its 51st year,...
André Bisson’s latest single is upbeat soul with a slice of Motown
Sliding in with a new single, "The Reformed Deceiver," André Bisson brings us an upbeat soul song that wouldn't be far removed from any...
Why the Lonesome Ace String Band scrapped a whole album
These days, what with the lack of album sales, the downloading, the streaming and the increased cost of recording, it's a real leap of...
The Chat Room: Kristi Lane Sinclair
Kristi Lane Sinclair is an artist completely unafraid to plumb the depths of darkness in search of a glimmer of light. That’s precisely what...