The closing finale. Photo by Heather Kitching. Crying at an awards show is a reaction usually reserved for a few overcome winners, but on Wednesday night in Hamilton, it was the audience getting ...

On their new single “Lavender Honey,” Élise LeBlanc flips the script on classic country music in a celebration of young love and queer awakening, ...

Trying to choose which artists to see at the Folk Canada conference each year is like to trying to choose what to eat from a mile-long buffet. That’s kind of the point, after all. The goal is to ...

Today’s column from veteran Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Tamblyn is adapted from a speech he gave at a symposium at Trent University. It’s a long read, but we decided to post it here all at once it ...

How was this already the 17th annual Canadian Folk Music Awards? Why, I remember when it was just a twinkle in the eyes of people like Borealis Records co-founder Grit Laskin and Penguin Eggs magazine ...

After 19 albums, countless awards and 55 years of spreading the blues around the world on tour, the time has come for the legendary Downchild Blues Band to say farewell to the road and their beloved ...

The first round of Juno Awards was handed out in Halifax tonight, and that’s the round that includes all the awards we care about here at Roots Music Canada. And I have to say, after a Maple Blues ...

After Ann and John Law left their native Scotland for Canada, they eventually arrived in B.C. in 1977. They took up residence in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, just across the water and a short ...

Séan McCann, the beloved Canadian troubadour and Order of Canada recipient best known as a founding member of Great Big Sea, is hitting the road for a different kind of tour in 2025—a tour not about ...

The Canadian Folk Music Awards announced the final two winners of the 2025 awards Sunday morning during a folk for families concert at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, QC. It was the last ...

Since co-founding Idyl Tea in the mid-1980s, Everett LaRoi has been a longtime presence in Edmonton, AB’s alternative music scene, going on to spearhead other projects such as Manraygun and Goldtop.

If you were a kid in the late 1970s or early ‘80s, chances are, there’s a song that will pop into your head now and again – one that you still remember all the words to, even 40 or 50 years later.