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 ...

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.

Get ready for a summer of free music in the mountains. On July 1, the Whistler Summer Concert series returns, with a line-up of artists from around the world to challenge the stunning views with some ...

It was 25 years ago that Fiona Black got herself a job at what was then Capilano College in North Vancouver. We met on a sunny early October afternoon at the bustling Calabria Cafe in the heart of ...

Just about every artist on the planet has released a “pandemic album” of sorts by now. Some are defined by the creative risk-taking artists engaged in as they found themselves with time to experiment ...

Unlike many of Canada’s pioneering folk festivals, Live from the Rock in Red Rock, ON was not a product of the 1960s counterculture or an offshoot of 1970s communist organizing. It sprouted up during ...

Photo by Matteo Kutufa on Unsplash. In honour of Remembrance Day tomorrow, we here at Roots Music Canada have compiled some of the best Canadian songs we know about Canada’s role in war – whether they ...

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 ...