Del Barber and Mariel Buckley announce co-headlining tour
Del Barber and Mariel Buckley, two of Canada’s most acclaimed young roots music artists, will be hitting the road together in April, covering much of Alberta and British Columbia. With each recently earning major accolades – Barber’s latest album, Easy ...
Western Canada, Juno nominee Irish Mythen is coming your way!
The new year has been off to an explosive start for Irish-born, PEI-based singer-songwriter Irish Mythen – almost as explosive as that massive voice of hers. She’s been nominated for a Juno for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year and ...
Here are your 2020 folk/roots East Coast Music Award nominees
Nominees for the East Coast Music Awards were announced this morning in St. John’s, NL, and as usual, folk and roots artists are well-represented throughout the categories. The awards will be handed out Thursday, April 30 at Mile One Centre ...
Here are your 2020 Maple Blues Award winners
The 2020 Maple Blues Awards are just wrapping up at Koerner Hall in Toronto, and, for the first time ever, on computer screens everywhere, thanks to live streaming of the event (thanks, guys!). Miss Emily was this year’s big winner ...
Here are your 2020 Juno nominees in the roots, Indigenous ...
They’re out! The 2020 Juno nominees were announced this morning. The awards will be handed out during Juno Week March 9-15 in Saskatoon, SK. We’ll bring you more details shortly about ticketing for events and all that fine stuff. But ...
Sass Jordan singing the blues? This is totally happening
If you used to listen to Sass Jordan singing “Tell Somebody” and “Make you a Believer” back in the ‘80s and ‘90s and think, “This woman should really sing the blues,” well you were right. She should. And she is. ...
Laura Smith is battling cancer, and friends are raising money ...
Friends and fans of Laura Smith have raised more than 13,000 in less than a week to help the Nova Scotia-based singer-songwriter battle cancer. Laura announced through her record label, Borealis Records, this past week that she is facing the ...
The Canadian Folk Music Awards have announced this year’s performers
The board of the Canadian Folk Music Awards has announced the performer line-up for the 15th annual CFMA weekend, which is being held, for the first time ever, in Charlottetown, PE. The awards weekend consists of two nights of awards ...
Another Happy New Year for Vancouver Rogues
You could easily interpret the headline as a sardonic comment on the notoriously inflated Vancouver real estate market and how it lines the pockets of property developers and their capitalist ilk – but you’d be mistaken (but perhaps not wrong!). ...
An update on Toronto’s Hugh’s Room Live
On a chilly Sunday afternoon this past November, about 50 of us met warmly at Hugh’s Room Live, our iconic listening room in Toronto, to hear the new board talk about the progress they have made in the room’s re-birth. ...