Veteran vocalist Sherri Harding steps into the spotlight with Muscle ...
Ottawa singer Sherri Harding has paid her dues. After years on the road in various bands, playing everything from juke joints in the Northwest Territories to Armed Forces shows in Bosnia and the Middle East, home beckoned, and she finally ...
Don Ross has a new album – including Bruce Cockburn ...
Water can be a source of calm and healing for many people, and singer-songwriter Don Ross is no exception. In fact, looking out his window at St. Margaret’s Bay and rowing across it on a skiff with his dog were ...
Music festivals have a new favourite colour: green
Over the past few decades, music festivals have begun to change their colour. While the hue of their logos may remain the same year after year, their attitudes toward environmental sustainability have become increasingly green. Popular festivals nationwide have begun ...
Ray Lemelin Releases Dark/Out of Phase, featuring Tim Williams
There are some things in music that all the technological advancements can’t recreate. And live recording an entire album is something from the past that Calgary roots artist Ray Lemelin embraced on his new release Dark/Out of Phase. Ray’s latest ...
Here are your nominees for the 2023 Summer Solstice Indigenous ...
The Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards were a new addition to the Summer Solstice Festival back in 2021, but I think it’s fair to say that they’ve become an important addition to the annual awards circuit, if one can call ...
Festival Mémoire et Racines has just unveiled its 2023 line-up. ...
We finally got word about the lineup for this year’s Festival Mémoire et Racines, and we were definitely not disappointed! It’s the 29th edition of this fabulous festival, the biggest, best and brightest of the excellent musical extravaganzas of the ...
How Stephen Fearing’s Veipoesi revives the songs that nobody heard ...
Stephen Fearing’s new album, Vejpoesi, is essentially two albums in one, and as such, it showcases the two sides of the singer-songwriter. Side One, titled The Maskinhallen Sessions, was recorded in May of 2022 with the Danish band The Sentimentals ...
Get to know RedFox, this year’s CFMA New/Emerging Artist of ...
The Canadian Folk Music Awards always bring excitement to folk and roots music fans, particularly when it comes to the New/Emerging Artist category. This year’s CFMAs were no different, with folk band RedFox taking home the coveted award. Riding on ...
Friends and fans are donating money to help Ernie Tollar ...
In September 2022, a giant of the Toronto world music scene was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, and friends and fans are donating money to help him access a costly but promising treatment in Mexico. Ernie Tollar has performed ...
David James Allen returning with By The Summertime, shares new ...
Listening to David James Allen, it often feels as if he’s channeling every cool record you’ve ever owned. Built upon a rootsy funkiness that’s part JJ Cale and The Band, accentuated with shades of Daptone and Bill Withers, his songs ...