Latest Reviews
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9ScoreREVIEW: Jeremy Fisher: Lemon Squeeze
It’s not a typical publicity shot, but one of my favourite pictures of Jeremy Fisher has him posing with a taxidermied coyote. The coyote looks like he’s about ...
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Paquin Artists Agency CMW Showcase: May 8th, 2014
Canadian Music Week took place from May 6-10th in Toronto, and this year the multi-venue extravaganza even more firmly entrenched itself as one of the go-to music industry ...
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10ScoreBike For Three: So Much Forever
A couple of years ago the Juno Tour of Canadian Art series asked several musicians to highlight a piece at the Art Gallery of Ontario and talk about ...
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7ScoreChloe Albert: Dream Catcher
It was with great interest and anticipation that I checked out this year’s Juno nominations. From my view there were several omissions — however there were also some ...
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8ScoreThe Haden Triplets: The Haden Triplets
If you’re like me, you see that surname and you think, “that Haden?” As in, the same family as the venerable jazz bassist Charlie, whose mile-long credentials and ...
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9ScoreThe Gloaming: The Gloaming
A sentence in string wizard Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh’s biography reads that he “continues to explore that region where Irish traditional music begins to disintegrate.” This description could apply equally ...
Latest Videos
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Watch The Ruth Moody Band Cover Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark”
Check out the latest video from Ruth Moody – a cover of the Boss’s classic “Dancing in the Dark” from her latest disc These Wilder Things. ...
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Neko Case Tiny Desk Concert
Happy Hallowe’en from Shapenote! Here is Neko Case in a gorilla costume, along with her equally-costumed band, performing a Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR headquarters in Washington, ...
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Daughter plays acoustic set on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
A beautiful acoustic set popped up yesterday from British indie-rock band Daughter on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts. ...
Latest News
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Curiosities, Winnipeg Folk Festival version
And by “curiosities” I mean “acts I’m curious about” rather than any weird or oddball connotation. I mean, maybe these musicians do have their quirks, but I think ...
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A Mexican Perspective on Folk Music, Here and There
When I first bumped into the Vancouver Folk Fest line-up yesterday morning, I was relieved. Being a fan of Canadian music living in Mexico can be frustrating. In ...
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FESTIVALS: Calgary Folk Festival lineup announced
Calgary Folk Festival, you’ve outdone yourself! Always a hallmark of Canadian festival programming, adopting an admirable balance of tradition vs. innovation, this year’s lineup has really hit the ...
