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Proposed new U.S. fees could make it much harder for ...

If COVID-19 hasn’t already caused enough pain for Canadian musicians, they could soon face another major setback: massive fee hikes to apply for the visas they need to tour in the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ...
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We asked ChatGPT to recommend some Canadian world music. Here’s ...

Last week, we asked ChatGPT to recommend some emerging Canadian folk artists for us. We were curious to see what it would come up with, and while it employed a very liberal definition of the word “emerging,” we couldn’t argue ...
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Singer-songwriter Harry Hannah’s new single captures a bitter-sweet breakup

Not all breakups are bitter, and sometimes you part ways wishing the other person the best even though it hurts like hell. Cobourg, ON-based singer-songwriter Harry Hannah captures a breakup’s bitter-sweetness with his easy-galloping, alt-country latest single “Baby Don’t Look ...
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Owen Sound’s Heartwood Concert Hall is now offering on-demand concert ...

The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented opportunities to view concerts from the comfort of our own homes – as venues supplemented their limited-attendance live shows with online streams. While some have sadly let those offerings slide, others, ...
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There are changes at Winterfolk this year as it adapts ...

The 21st edition of the Winterfolk Blues and Roots Festival gets underway in Toronto at the end of the month, but not without having faced some challenges due to complex factors, including changing audience demographics and a post-COVID hangover. Brian ...
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Toronto venues say they feel Winterfolk’s pain when it comes ...

Winterfolk promoter Brian Gladstone is not the only one having to adapt to challenges brought on by inflation, COVID-19 and changing demographics, among other factors. Laura Fernandez, a member of the board of directors of Hugh’s Room Live, talked about ...
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We asked ChatGPT to recommend some Canadian folk artists. ...

Chances are, you’ve heard of ChatGPT by now. For the uninitiated, you might describe it as a cross between Google, Siri and an online chat room.  Officially, it’s “a language model, designed to assist users in generating human-like text based ...
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Tom Coxworth’s 5 favourite acts of Folk Alliance

The Folk Alliance International Conference wrapped up this weekend in Kansas City, MO, and, as always, there was a healthy Canadian contingent. FAI is the place the folk festivals and folk clubs go to book a lot of their acts ...
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Vancouver Folk Music Festival town hall provokes questions and criticism ...

Around 220 supporters of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival showed up for an online town hall with the festival’s board of directors last Wednesday after the board postponed the organization’s annual general meeting in order to explore options for saving ...
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Lynn Miles’ new COVID-inspired album is all about uncertainty

During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses, offices and factories were closed for safety concerns. The result was that normally bustling communities were almost turned into ghost towns. Ottawa singer-songwriter Lynn Miles lives on what is usually a ...