The Top 10 stories of 2024
It's always exciting to check out our Roots Music Canada readership statistics to see what kinds of stories you've been gravitating toward each year....
Gordy the Moose’s 10 favourite new finds of 2024 from the Roots Music Canada...
Each week, Gordy the moose reviews some of his favourite new submissions to the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox. Here's what stood out for him...
Report examines the value of Black music in the Canadian music industry
Canada’s Black music business collective ADVANCE, recently published a research study in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Diversity Institute, to examine the value of...
Curbside Concerts adds Tracy Posadowski and Tom Yeates as business expands
A company that launched in 2020 offering outdoor concerts in residential neighbourhoods from the back of Matt Masters' van has now hired two new...
S.G. Sinnicks’ ‘Miss America 2.0’ feels even more relevant now than two months ago
Hamilton-based alternative folk singer S.G. Sinnicks released a new version of "Miss America 2.0" before the U.S. election, but it somehow feels even more...
The 12 Days of Roots Music Canada Christmas
For the holiday season, here's a little song about how Roots Music Canada gets made.
One the first day of Christmas, my true love gave...
Why Kat Goldman teamed up with a novice 81-year-old co-writer for ‘New Orleans Christmas...
Toronto singer-songwriter Kat Goldman teams up with senior citizen Joel Claener one the single "New Orleans Christmas Day," a soothing Yuletide number packing plenty...
Carla Muller spreads holiday cheer with Snow Came Falling album
Snow Came Falling is a new Christmas album by Woolwich, ON folk singer Carla Muller that is inspired by her father and family.
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"I wanted...
Album review: Brooks and Bowskill – Blissful State of Mind
Gordy the moose reviews some of his favourite new submissions to the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox.
Jim Bowskill and Brittany Brooks had the beginnings of...
How Sultans of String turned Walking Through the Fire into a visual album
Walking Through The Fire-Visual Album is a documentary that has at its genesis a challenge from Dr. Duke Redbird to Sultans Of String co-founder...