Adrian Sutherland from Midnight Shine has released a brand new ...
Adrian Sutherland, the founder and frontman of roots rockers Midnight Shine, released a brand new single last week, and it rocks pretty hard, both literally and figuratively. Adrian, who previously worked in business development in his home community of Attawapiskat ...
The Wardens – ‘Coming Home’
The Wardens isn’t just a cool name for a band. In this case, it’s an actual description of its members. The trio of national park rangers based in Banff, AB, makes mountain music – both literally and figuratively – marked ...
The Maple Blues Awards will stream live from 4 cities ...
Hat’s off to the Toronto Blues Society for taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to innovate on the awards show format. Like many arts awards and programs, this year’s Maple Blues Awards will be held virtually, but unlike other awards, ...
Our Top 10 stories of 2020
It’s time once again here at Roots Music Canada to publish our list of our top 10 stories of the year based on the number of times people read them. This year we filtered it a touch to exclude uber ...
Holiday recipes from our favourite artists: Tennyson King’s homemade ...
Here at Roots Music Canada, we, like you, have been more than a little bummed about being stuck at home for the last few months, unable to see live music or spend holidays with our loved ones out of town. ...
Holiday recipes from our favourite artists: Maryem Tollar’s molokheyya soup
One of the things that’s gotten a lot of us through this crazy pandemic year has been getting back to the simple things in life: knitting, sewing, gardening, canning, baking and cooking, among other things. So we here at ...
Maryem Tollar & Roula Said share a hilarious holiday song
Maryem Tollar and Roula Said of Al Qahwa have launched a comedic and theatrical side project called FAOC – Pronounced FOWK – Friggin’ Arab Orchestra Company – and they’ve just released an original holiday hit called “Arab Ladies Sing ...
PIQSIQ shares a new holiday carol and a recipe!
Sisters Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik, better known as the acclaimed throat singing duo PIQSIQ (“pilk-silk”), are in the holiday spirit again this year with a new single: a stunning rendition of “Coventry Carol,” which dates back to 16th Century England. They’ve also answered ...
Holiday recipes from our favourite artists: The Hello Darlin’s Maple ...
One of the things that’s gotten a lot of us through this crazy pandemic year has been getting back to the simple things in life: knitting, sewing, gardening, canning, baking and cooking, among other things. So we here at Roots ...
Jeffery Straker – ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ (lyric ...
Have you ever attempted to go Christmas caroling only to discover that you can’t remember all the words to half of the carols you were convinced you knew by heart? No? Just me? Sure. I believe you. OK, anyway, Saskatchewan ...