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 ...
Sussex, Dustbowl Daddies, Rob Murphy, and Kate Weekes
Gordy the Moose presents some of his favourite new music from the submissions that have arrived in the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox. In fact, Gordy found so many favourites among the latest submissions that he’s doing a second column ...
Here are your 2020 Canadian Folk Music Award nominees
The board of the Canadian Folk Music Awards has just announced the nominees for the 2020 awards, which will be handed out in Charlottetown, PEI April 3 and 4. Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees! Traditional Album of the ...
Dispatches from the Stan Rogers Folk Festival – Day One ...
Driving out to the Stan Rogers Folk Festival in Canso, NS, it’s hard not to notice the contrast between summery green grass and splashes of the booming blue ocean. Hills, forests and wildlife guide the way until the music at ...
Four up-and-coming acts to check out at the Stan Rogers ...
With a mainstage that includes Jeremy Dutcher, Donovan Woods, Suzanne Vega and Dave Gunning, this year’s Stan Rogers Folk Festival has so many top-tier performers on its bill that you could be forgiven for entirely overlooking the up-and-comers. But that, ...
Check out Dave Gunning’s new single!
Dave Gunning has gained a reputation for being a great storyteller and an engaging performer who has the profound ability to take listeners on a musical journey through his songs. Much of his material is about the underdogs and heroes, ...
Meg Tennant, My Father’s Son, and Alicia Toner
Gordy the Moose presents some of his favourite new music from the submissions that have arrived in the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox. Meg Tennant – Echoed Light Apart from getting some love from our friends over at Penguin Eggs, ...
Steven Bowers – “Bad Friend” (video)
Newfoundland-born Steven Bowers earned an East Coast Music Award nomination folk Folk Recording of the Year back in 2008, along with several Music Nova Scotia Award nods, and since then, he’s managed to get his music featured in a few ...
Madison Violet – “Tell Me” video
After 20 years together, Lisa MacIsaac and Brenley MacEachern, also known as Juno nominated singer-songwriter duo, Madison Violet, are excited to announce Everything’s Shifting, a new album to be released on March 8 on Passenger Sounds. The lead single is called “Tell Me,” and we’re excited ...
Joe Bass, Ronley Teper, Alanna Matty, and Villages
Gordy the Moose presents some of his favourite new music from the submissions that have arrived in the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox. Joe Bass – Part Timer (Release date: Dec. 21, 2018) First of all, let’s get one thing ...