Canadian Music Week: a cross-Canada road-trip in 10 roots ...
You’ve found yourself with a pass to Canadian Music Week. Now all you have to do is find some great Canadian roots music to go see – not an easy task when the line-up features more than 800 showcasing artists representing ...
Six songs to set you up for the Vancouver World ...
“Do you know that buzz you get after you spend a weekend at a festival?” Tom Landa asks me over Facebook messenger. “For example, I always feel amazing and inspired and happy when I go to the Van Folk Fest. ...
How Dave Allen conquered demons on debut solo album
With his debut solo album, Toronto-based singer-songwriter Dave Allen has established himself as a bona fide roots music auteur, transporting us to a place that, to our modern perceptions, will seem uncomfortably foreign, or conversely, all too real. Listeners previously ...
Jeremy Dutcher: Where Indigenous tradition meets opera (audio)
Jeremy Dutcher is a classically-trained composer and opera singer and member of the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick. His debut album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, was inspired by Jeremy’s search for classical music that dealt with Indigenous issues or was ...
Benefit concerts for bluesman Jason Buie’s family start tomorrow night
You know you’ve made an impression on the world when your untimely death prompts people across the country to hold benefit concerts for your family. Victoria bluesman Jason Buie was that kind of guy. Buie died suddenly Mar. 22 at ...