Michael Jerome Browne is Gettin’ Together on his new album
A three-time Canadian Folk Music Award winner, five-time Juno nominee, Kerrville New Folk finalist, and recipient of the 2020 Maple Blues Awards’ Blues With A Feeling Award, Michael Jerome Browne is a multi-instrumentalist, a songwriter, and a living encyclopedia of ...
Suzie Vinnick announces B.C. and Ontario dates with award-winning Auzzie ...
Canadian blues veteran Suzie Vinnick is hitting the road this month as part of a double bill with a world-renowned Australian bluesman. Suzie and Lloyd Spiegel’s dates kick off a week from today. A Saskatoon native transplanted to the Niagara ...
Blues stars are coming out for the Maple Blues Awards ...
Toronto Blues Society has announced a stellar line-up of blues artists from across Canada as the 25th Maple Blues Awards return to Koerner Hall in Toronto on Monday, June 20. Hosted by Ottawa’s Angelique Francis, Canada’s biggest night in blues ...
The Actual Goners release new single ‘Changes’
The Actual Goners began as award-winning Canadian songwriters Tristan Armstrong and Duncan Symonds. With a passion for live performance that drove them across the country, from Vancouver Island to their current home base in Toronto, the longtime collaborators deliver personal ...
Roots Rockers the Actual Goners are set to release Lost ...
The Actual Goners began as award-winning Canadian songwriters Tristan Armstrong and Duncan Symonds (VIMA Country Recording of the Year). With a passion for live performance that drove them across the country, from Vancouver Island to their current home base in Toronto, the ...
Steve Dawson will release the first of three new albums, ...
Steve Dawson has always been hard to pin down. A guitarist, a composer, a sought-after musical enabler, and sideman? Of course, he’s all of those things and more, but none of those descriptions really do the seven-time Juno Award-winning musician ...
Toronto-based queer guitarist and bluesman Mike Nagoda carries on a ...
Mike Nagoda is a queer and disabled blues and roots musician and independent recording artist based in Toronto. Born with cerebral palsy, Mike struggled to play guitar in a conventional manner until he discovered legendary Toronto bluesman Brian Cober, who ...
John Wort Hannam – “Long Haul” video
When John Wort Hannam started to write songs for Long Haul, his 8th album and the follow-up to 2018’s Acres of Elbow Room, he didn’t have a particular theme in mind. He began by doing what he has always done: ...
Alec Fraser Jr. (Jeff Healey, Bo Diddley) has released a ...
Multi-award-winning producer/musician Alec Fraser Jr. has, at long last, released his first solo recording, On The Wings of the Wind. As a bassist, he has toured internationally and worked with many world-class artists like Jeff Healey and Bo Diddley. ...
Rob Lutes is set to release Come Around on April ...
If you’re a fan of the wonderful, Montreal singer-songwriter Rob Lutes, you’ll be thrilled to know he’s got a new album coming out April 16. Recorded in fall 2020, Come Around is the follow-up to Walk in the Dark (2017), for ...