Where songwriting meats sermon-writing for musician and minister Lynn Harrison
Toronto singer-songwriter Lynn Harrison has a unique perspective on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns over the past three years. Not only is she a touring musician who just released her seventh album, Treasure, she’s also ...
How music-making is part of Mimi O’Bonsawin’s creative, land-based life
“Every album you make is a chapter of your life,” said Mimi O’Bonsawin. “Everything that I’ve experienced, that I’ve learned, that I’ve absorbed over the years has kind of been reflected into this album.” The album is Willow, the sixth ...
Why J.P. Cormier and Dave Gunning are covering the Allan ...
A beautiful thing happens when a song has close vocal harmonies. Besides a pleasing sound, many times you hear not two voices, but one. It becomes hard to distinguish who is singing what part, the lead or the harmony. Think ...
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 ...
Lynn Miles’ new COVID-inspired album is all about uncertainty
During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses, offices and factories were closed for safety concerns. The result was that normally bustling communities were almost turned into ghost towns. Ottawa singer-songwriter Lynn Miles lives on what is usually a ...
Catching up with Le Vent du Nord a year after ...
“We’re not a political band, but in a way it’s a political act to sing in French wherever we go in the world,” said Nicolas Boulerice, a founding member of the Quebec band Le Vent du Nord, who last year ...
How having a child has changed the Bombadils’ approach to ...
When you become a parent for the first time your priorities change. This little human life form takes precedence, and it’s up to you to re-arrange how you fit everything else into your life. If you’re a musician,, it can ...
Hard work is paying off for Six Nations singer-songwriter Lacey ...
“I believe in quantum healing,” said Six Nations singer-songwriter Lacey Hill. “When we’re all vibrating, the potential is there to have miracles happen. I believe in miracles and I’ve seen them. It gives you more of an awareness, and we ...
How Andrea Ramolo made Quarantine Dream during lockdown
There are as many methods of writing a song as there are songwriters. Some will write first thing in the morning, only stopping once they have to talk to somebody. Others, being night owls, prefer to work late into the ...
Behind Hannah Shira Naiman’s album The Wheels Won’t Go
They say timing is everything. It’s a phrase that can be used seriously or facetiously. For folk singer-songwriter Hannah Shira Naiman, it could be a bit of both when talking about her latest album The Wheels Won’t Go. She was ...