Celeigh Cardinal’s new single is pretty poppy. Have a ...
Award-winning artist Celeigh Cardinal wowed us in 2019 with her soulful, bluesy-folk sophomore album, Stories From a Downtown Apartment, which picked up the 2020 Juno Award for Indigenous Album of the Year. Then she released a cover of the Tragically ...
8 Canadian songs about anti-Black racism in honour of MLK ...
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, and although we don’t observe it as a statutory holiday here in Canada, there’s no reason not to observe it otherwise. Here at Roots Music Canada, it seemed fitting ...
Friends launch fundraiser as Tim Williams recovers from pneumonia
Friends of Calgary bluesman Tim Williams have launched a fundraiser to help Tim recover from a severe bout of double pneumonia. While many artists spent New Year’s Eve playing possibly their first New Year’s gig since 2019, Tim spent it ...
Kate Weekes – ‘Time by the Moon’
Kate Weekes is not the sort of person who stays in one place for very long. She’s been a dog musher-for-hire in Norway, she’s toured China with a swing band, and she’s canoed the far-north as a wilderness guide. So ...
21 years of albums of the year: Here’s who ...
Past Albums of the Year 2021: Allison Russell, Outside Child (Fantasy Records) 2020: Pharis & Jason Romero, Bet On Love (Lula) 2019: The Small Glories, Assiboine & The Red (Red House) The Penguin Eggs/Roots Music Canada 2022 Critics’ Album of the Year: James ...
Check out Allison Brown’s Fireside Christmas Radio Hour
Every year at Christmas, Allison Brown makes her trek up to her snow-covered cabin in the woods in a secret location in northern Ontario to broadcast the Fireside Christmas Radio hour beside the crackling fire. This year, Allison brings 90 ...
Watch Marichka Marczyk (Lemon Bucket/Balaklava Blues) sing at Carnegie Hall ...
Ukrainian-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer Marichka Marczyk, known for her work with Lemon Bucket Orkestra and Balaklava Blues, sang at Carnegie Hall on Sunday as part of a 100th anniversary celebration for the 1922 American debut of the Ukrainian National Chorus ...
A pair of songs for World AIDS Day
As World AIDS Day approached this year, I started looking for Canadian folk/roots and world music songs about the AIDS crisis, and I was surprised how hard it was. Singer-songwriters have chronicled so much of our history, and yet I ...
James Gordon’s new song is a lament for a broken ...
If you’re feeling melancholy about the state of the music business, here’s a little good news. No, Spotify royalties have not shot up by 200 per cent. No, we have not seen a proliferation of small restaurants paying scale. No, ...
Orit Shimoni – ‘One Voice’ (video)
We’re super excited here at Roots Music Canada to premiere a new video by Orit Shimoni that has literally been more than two years in the works. It’s a video for her song “One Voice” that she drew and animated ...