2016 Canadian Folk Music Awards Showcases @ Hugh’s Room & Gala @ The Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto December 4, 2016 Canadian talent took centre stage this weekend as Toronto hosted the Canadian Folk Music Awards, now in its 12th year. [...]
The Silver Hearts Golden Favourites Mudtown Records The Silver Hearts has ended a decade-long lull with its newest album Golden Favourites. Featuring 11 previously unrecorded songs from the ensemble’s 16-year history — including many fan [...]
Andrew Collins Trio @ Hugh’s Room, Toronto October 21, 2016 Hugh’s Room is no stranger to a range of musical talent. The intimate venue supports a plethora of genres – including Blues, Folk, Bluegrass, and Jazz – but it is rare [...]
Crystal Shawanda Fish Out Of Water Newsun Records Crystal Shawanda considered herself a Country-music outsider based on her eclectic sound and style, which fuses Blues with traditional Country sensibilities. In her latest album, Fish Out of [...]
HEADED EAST AN INTERVIEW WITH JUSTIN RUTLEDGE It was an increased sense of disillusionment that plucked Alt-Country singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge from his Toronto residence to the eastern shores of Lake Ontario. Though the Juno Award winner [...]
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott @ Hugh’s Room, Toronto October 16, 2016 “This is my new favourite brand of whiskey,” mumbles Folk patriarch Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, brandishing a plastic water bottle underneath the green lights of the Hugh’s [...]
Lindy Vopnfjörd Frozen In Time Independent For his sixth full-length record, singer-songwriter Lindy Vopnfjörd takes his listeners on a tour of introspection with an instrumentally sparse and lyrically potent album. The record veers away from [...]
MUSIC MURAL TO TOWER OVER YONGE STREET September 28, 2016 @ Granby Parkette, Toronto Artist Adrian Hayles is bringing the musical vibrancy of the ’50’s and ’60’s Toronto back to Yonge Street with his ambitious 22-storey fresco. A crowd gathered [...]
2016 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS SEPTEMBER 21 @ TORONTO CITY HALL, MEMBER LOUNGE The nominees for this year’s Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA) were announced at Toronto City Hall during the second annual National Strum event. Members [...]
Devendra Banhart Ape In Pink Marble Nonesuch Records Devendra Banhart rejoins long-time collaborators Noah Georgeson and Josiah Steinbrick with his latest release, Ape in Pink Marble, Banhart’s ninth studio album. The neo-Folk singer-songwriter [...]
Donovan Woods They Are Going Away EP Meant Well “The songs are about coping with loss, and wholesale changes, that sort of thing. The title, I suppose, is trying to get at the temporariness of everything. Time speeds up when you get older, [...]
A QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS NEVER SOUNDED SO DREAMY AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIA JACKLIN Julia Jacklin has garnered a lot of attention these days, and for good reason. The Australian singer-songwriter has charmed listeners with her Americana-infused Indie [...]
Jeff Scroggins & Colorado And The Foggy Hogtown Boys @ Junction City Music Hall, Toronto September 15, 2016 Like many University of Toronto alumni, my first taste of Bluegrass in the city began inside the red walls of the Silver Dollar Room, [...]
Dolly Parton @ Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto September 9, 2016 Dolly Parton kicked off the Canadian leg of her Pure & Simple tour, her largest North American tour in 25 years, on September 9 in Toronto. The stripped-down production fit the [...]
