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Lindsay Ferguson – ‘Siren’

Not only are we super thrilled here at Roots Music Canada to premiere a new song from Lindsay Ferguson; we’re also thrilled to share another piece of her wonderful writing. Lindsay wrote this piece about the song’s creation. You’ll find ...
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Goldschatz – ‘Darkest Times’ (video)

The song came out of a dream. Well, two dreams, actually. Husband and wife duo, Timothy Loeffler and Christina Rieder of Goldschatz both awoke one morning with musical soundtracks in their minds, two different songs, which they melded together to ...
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Why Lindsay Ferguson needed to step away from music for ...

About a year ago, I called a psychic. Not a psychic who advertises, but rather a man who spends his time with his dogs in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A man, mostly unknown for his intense abilities, except to a rare ...
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NL Folk Fest artists talk to Lindsay Ferguson about the ...

Greetings from St. John‘s, NL. The Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival has wrapped up after three days and nights of fabulous folkiness, flavours of all kinds, and songs of all colours, and I had the great pleasure to take it ...
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Lindsay Ferguson is on her way to the Newfoundland and ...

As I write to you just now, I am 35,000 feet up in the air, soaring on a plane to Newfoundland. It is not the first time, and it will not be the last. Three summers ago was my last ...
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17 wows in a sea of sound at Folk Alliance ...

For four days and four nights, Folk Alliance International stormed the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, QC, and I was there. You couldn’t help but to experience all the feels: the highs and the lows, ultimately ensconced in a ...
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The debut record, Marion, by Jenina MacGillivray is the real ...

When Jenina MacGillivray writes a song, she writes it with a paint brush. Each song is a different shade of loss, love and fate and friendship. In this poetic gathering of stories one can easily walk right in through the door ...
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A soul-fulfilling tour in Scotland

The gift of music has taken me to many remote and unique villages, towns and cities, and I’m sure, if you too are a music lover, you have also explored parts of the world (and parts of yourself) you never ...