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Wide Arches share track-by-track breakdown of debut album

Wide Arches, the singer-songwriter project of Juno-nominated multi-instrumentalist and composer Jacob Gorzhaltsan, has just released its debut album, Farewell to All the Lovely Things. With a knack for story-telling, Jacob writes lyrics that paint vivid images throughout the album, drawing ...
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Corby talks to Noah Zacharin about Points of Light

photo by Howard Gladstone Noah Zacharin has been travelling for a long time, living the troubadour’s life, labouring along his deliberately chosen career path of being a masterful guitarist, an engaging storyteller and a singer of great subtlety and persuasiveness. ...
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David Francey teams up with collaborators old and new on ...

With the release of his new album, The Breath Between, singer-songwriter David Francey returns with more than just a collection of new songs. He returns with a changed voice. For a number of years David had been dealing with voice ...
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4 new songs you have to hear from Aysanabee, Skydiggers, ...

One of our gigs here at Roots Music Canada is to stay on top of all the new music out there so that you don’t have to.  And holy crap has there been a lot of good stuff lately. We ...
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Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea has produced a Newfoundland ...

Well… This is really fun. Actually, it’s way more than just plain old fun. It’s a recording of 20 of the brilliant songs written by Ron Hynes, Newfoundland’s “Man of a Thousand Songs.” Produced by Alan Doyle and Cory Tetford, ...
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How Duke Redbird inspired Sultans of Strings’ Walk Through the ...

It seems to me that Sultans of String could be called “The Kings of Collaboration.” Their 2018 album, Christmas Caravan, featured guest artists as diverse as Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains, sitar virtuoso Anwar Khurshid, Richard Bona of Cameroon and ...
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Doug MacNaughton celebrates peaceful moments on ‘Follow Your Silence’

Toronto-based indie singer-songwriter Doug MacNaughton has released his latest single “Follow Your Silence,” the fourth single from his forthcoming album, Old Enough To Know Better, set to be released in the fall of 2023. It’s a hopeful message of finding ...
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SIX shows to kick off the Rogue Folk Club’s 2023-24 ...

I hope you saved up lots of money over the summer because the Rogue Folk Club has just launched its 2023-24 concert series, and that always comes with a problem:  how do you choose which shows to go see? The ...
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Ann and John Law on Bringing Celtic Music to BC’s ...

After Ann and John Law left their native Scotland for Canada, they eventually arrived in B.C. in 1977. They took up residence in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, just across the water and a short ferry ride from Vancouver. ...
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Dispatches from Soulshine day two (Saturday)

Well, today didn’t disappoint. I arose a bit late due to the late night jam, and instead of my usual yoga or meditation routine, which were both offered this morning, I thought I’d shake it up take a session called ...