Shy-Anne Hovorka releases ‘Raise My Fist’ with more than 30 Indigenous and ally artists
Award winning Ojibwe singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, and educator Shy-Anne Hovorka has released her new single and music video, "Raise My Fist."
Inspired by former...
Roots Music Canada’s 2025 New Discovery of the Year, Honeybear, has a new album...
Vancouver-based vintage soul, blues and roots quartet Honeybear, the Band has just released its new album, The Cure, marking the follow-up to a debut...
Son of James reimagines a Chicks classic as if it had been written in...
Vancouver's Son of James has released a cover of The Chicks' "There's Your Trouble," rebuilt through the band's own Chinese Canadiana lens and pulled...
4 amazing shows to kick off the Rogue Folk Club’s 2026-2027 season
As the summer winds to a close, folk club season is getting fired up, and the Rogue Folk Club is giving us plenty of...
Guelph artist Richard Laviolette left a legacy along with his last album
Guelph musician Richard Laviolette had a career full of love, community, pain, family and inspiration.
And his partner and friends say they intend to continue...
Roots Round Up: this week’s news from the Canadian roots scene (and beyond)
BLUE RODEO'S "HASN'T HIT ME YET" FINDS NEW MEANING IN ELBOWS UP ERA
Is it really necessary to go over how stupid the world is...
Cape Breton’s Aaron MacDonald urges living life to the fullest on new single ‘Makin’...
On his new single “Makin’ Time," Aaron MacDonald offers a classic road song that also serves as a metaphor for getting the most out...
SOCAN sues AI music-maker Suno for copyright infringement
The organization that collects performance royalties on behalf of Canadian artists has filed suit against a popular generative AI platform, saying Suno, which generates...
Susan Aglukark turned a poem into her new single, ‘For You’
Inuk singer, songwriter, and Officer of the Order of Canada Susan Aglukark releases "For You," known in Inuktitut as "Igvit" (????), on Tuesday, Sept....
Late singer-songwriter David Wiffen was a Canadian folk icon
Canada lost an iconic member of its folk music scene earlier this year. Singer-songwriter David Wiffen passed away following a short illness in May...