Geoff Berner announces spring tour dates with Ben Caplan and ...
Beloved Vancouver singer-songwriter Geoff Berner is heading back on the road across Canada this spring with Ben Caplan, and to coincide with that, he’s released a new video for “Super Subtle Folk Song.” Although it’s from his acclaimed 2017 album ...
Folk Alliance: 50 years after Lennon’s bed-in for peace ...
We didn’t go to bed til around 3 a.m. Saturday morning after a long night of watching music, so the sudden brightness in the hotel room around 8 felt oppressively early. All the same, we couldn’t miss the historic “bed-in” ...
Folk Alliance: Elizabeth’s tour of the Saturday official showcases
The day dawned early after a bedtime of past 2 a.m. on Friday night. A late night email invited us to attend the Bed In at 9:20 a.m. in the room once occupied by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in ...
Folk Alliance: Heather’s Saturday showcase travelogue
4:30 p.m.: I admit it. I can be shallow. I HAVE been known to judge a book by its cover. Case in point, the Polky Village Band has always struck me as kind of a hokey name, so I’m a ...
Folk Alliance: Elizabeth Szekeres’ tour of the Friday night ...
First up in the official showcases of Friday afternoon at the Folk Alliance International conference was Kaia Kater with her band. She played a series of lovely passionate songs on guitar and banjo, including some from her new album Grenades, ...
Folk Alliance: Elizabeth’s tour of the Thursday night private ...
Three floors of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in downtown Montreal are set aside this weekend for private showcase performances. Every room has its beds removed so that a constant procession of musicians can do showcase performances they hope will catch ...
Folk Alliance: Elizabeth’s tour of the official showcases (Thursday)
The Roots Music Canada team is out in force in Montreal this weekend for the annual Folk Alliance International conference, the world’s largest gathering of folk artists and industry people. A key component of Folk Alliance is the showcases, series ...
Folk Alliance: The revolution will not be translated; Corby ...
Gather round folkish hearts. A freedom fire is burning in mid Montreal. As Haiti exercised its right to riot and R. Kelly’s and Ryan Adam’s ears caught fire in a blaze of sexual scandal, the folk guard refreshed the law ...
Folk Alliance: Dispatches from the Wednesday night showcases
401 white-outs and grounded flights be damned, the Folk Alliance conference kicked off Wednesday with a few absent friends, but evidently no frost on the festive folks who had made it into the 2019 host venue, Montreal’s famous Fairmont Hotel. ...
Just what’s it like to be at Folk Alliance anyway?
From tomorrow through Sunday, Roots Music Canada will be on site at the 2019 Folk Alliance International conference in Montreal. This is the world’s largest conference for folk and roots music, and it features a decent number of global and ...