Mélisande [Electrotrad] – Les Millésimes
Elizabeth Szekeres has been working her way through all of the albums she picked up at this year’s Folk Alliance International conference and introducing us to some of her favourite discoveries – some new; some old. This album was released ...
Arise & Go – Meeting Place
This lovely CD is yet another example of the cross-border pollination that happens among the fantastically good musicians from Canada and the United States. That arbitrary political line we call a border does not exist when musicians get together. Fiddler ...
Sophie and Fiachra and André Marchand – Portraits
Since the days of the Irish potato famine that began over 150 years ago and the resulting mass migration of people to North America, Québec has benefited in a myriad of ways. Irish musicians pollinated Québec folklore with their tunes, ...
Oh Susanna – Johnstown (limited-edition, vinyl-only anniversary edition)
Bing! “You got a package in the mail,” reads the text from my wife. I’m on the road for work and won’t be home for a few more days. “Can I open it?” she writes. “Sure,” I reply. Her next ...
Meg Tennant – Echoed Light
A mist rises over the lake at dawn and is vanquished, not by the dark, but by excesses of sunlight. The glorious harmonies that resonate to the inner ear disappear when sung. Within the folds of a new acoustic–based collection ...
Stephen Fearing – The Secret of Climbing
On Friday, April 5, I was fortunate enough to return to The Registry Theatre, an intimate soft seat venue located in Kitchener, ON. The occasion was night one of the sixth Registry Roots Weekend that featured musician, singer, songwriter and ...
Le Vent du Nord – Territoires
We are pretty sure there are lots of you out there who have been waiting with bated breath for this new recording from Le Vent du Nord, the preeminent progressive folk band out of Québec. Let this be your ...
Tom Russell – October in the Railroad Earth
This particularly cool March morning found me in my room in the Peter Lougheed Hospital sitting in my wheelchair looking out the window at the distant Calgary skyline. The still-snow-covered Rocky Mountains off in the distance created a wonderful backdrop ...
Pete’s Posse – The Conversation
Honestly, these three Vermont guys should be honorary Canadians. Pete Sutherland, Oliver Scanlon and Tristan Henderson together comprise Pete’s Posse, and they have so many Canadian connections it feels like the border shouldn’t even exist for them. Take their festival ...
Kaia Kater – Grenades
Kaia Kater threw down the musical gauntlet in 2016 with the release of Nine Pin, a record that at once showcased her mastery of old-style Appalachian banjo and her incisive observations of 21st century life – earning her high praise ...