Canadian Folk Music Awards announce performers
The board of the Canadian Folk Music Awards has announced the performer line-up for the 18th edition of the awards, which will unfold this year in Vancouver. You can see the full list at the bottom of this article. The ...
Jabbour’s new single is about making more effort to connect ...
How many friends do you really have—and not just online? How well do you know the members of your family? How many times do you promise to make a date to catch up, and never really do? Do you know ...
Here are your 2023 Juno nominees in the roots, global ...
It’s a big week for awards this week. Last night, the Toronto Blues Society announced the winners of the 2023 Maple Blues Awards, and today? The Juno nominations are out. There are some wonderful stories in this list: two nominations ...
Vancouver Folk Music Festival delays dissolution vote while board considers ...
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival board of directors has rescheduled the society’s annual general meeting for March 1 while it considers proposals to save the financially beleaguered festival. Earlier this month, it announced that the 2023 event would not go ...
Roots rockers Rusty Creek sing of early NL fishing ships ...
Vancouver roots band Rusty Creek’s latest single, “White Sails,” is a rousing salute to the tall ships that came to fish the waters off Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The third single from the band’s 2022 album The Road of Life — ...
Vancouver Folk Music Festival cancels 2023 event, moves to fold ...
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society (VFMFS) announced today that it will not be moving ahead with a festival in 2023. What’s more, the board of directors will hold a membership vote to dissolve the society at the society’s annual ...
Friends launch fundraiser as Tim Williams recovers from pneumonia
Friends of Calgary bluesman Tim Williams have launched a fundraiser to help Tim recover from a severe bout of double pneumonia. While many artists spent New Year’s Eve playing possibly their first New Year’s gig since 2019, Tim spent it ...
Steve Edge of the Rogue Folk Club will receive a ...
Folk Alliance International has just announced the nominees for its International Folk Music Awards and the recipients of its Spirit of Folk prize. There’s a Canadian on the list: Rogue Folk Club artistic director Steve Edge. The Spirit of Folk ...
Suzie Vinnick announces B.C. and Ontario dates with award-winning Auzzie ...
Canadian blues veteran Suzie Vinnick is hitting the road this month as part of a double bill with a world-renowned Australian bluesman. Suzie and Lloyd Spiegel’s dates kick off a week from today. A Saskatoon native transplanted to the Niagara ...
Gordie Tentrees’ Mean Old World Tour returns to Canada in ...
For a seasoned road warrior such as Gordie Tentrees, being unable to tour due to pandemic restrictions put him in a spot unlike anything he’d ever experienced before. Even worse, he’d just released his most acclaimed album to date ...