Album review

Elise Boeur and Adam Iredale-Gray – Fiddle Tunes

Elise Boeur and Adam Iredale-Gray have been playing fiddle tunes of one sort or another for over 20 years. In that time, their musical journeys have taken them off, separately and together, in all sorts of directions. Stops along the ...
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‘I don’t compromise’; how Fiona Black has made a 25-year ...

It was 25 years ago that Fiona Black got herself a job at what was then Capilano College in North Vancouver. We met on a sunny early October afternoon at the bustling Calabria Cafe in the heart of East Vancouver’s ...
Album review

Mark Sullivan – Promenade Home

Three-time Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Champion Mark Sullivan is a renowned composer of original Canadian fiddle music. He is a respected teacher and has won accolades for his playing from such luminaries of the fiddle scene as Donnell Leahy, Calvin ...
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Tim Readman talks to Rogue Folk’s Steve Edge about the ...

By way of introduction, for those who need one, Steve Edge is the founder and artistic director of Vancouver’s Rogue Folk Club, which has been bringing quality folk roots music to the masses since 1987. He’s also a radio DJ ...
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‘This is my path’: Allison Russell on trauma, self-love and ...

“Frankly, telling my own story, in my own words, under my own name is the one of the most terrifying yet empowering things I’ve ever done – after charging my abusive adoptive father when I was twenty, becoming a mother ...
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Another Happy New Year for Vancouver Rogues

You could easily interpret the headline as a sardonic comment on the notoriously inflated Vancouver real estate market and how it lines the pockets of property developers and their capitalist ilk – but you’d be mistaken (but perhaps not wrong!). ...