CKCU radio host Chris White streaming Canadian Spaces on Facebook Live
Chris White broadcast the CKCU-FM show Canadian Spaces live from his living room in the Glebe last week, using Facebook Live.
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Good Lovelies are bringing friendship and harmony to the NAC
This is a milestone year for the Good Lovelies. The “harmony trio”, as they are often referred, are celebrating a decade together.
Getting to know Séan McCann
The founding member of Great Big Sea, performing at the NAC this weekend, on recovery, secrets, and moving to Ottawa.
Maple Hill’s bluegrass is “music to explore”
Maple Hill celebrate twenty years as a band with a new album of covers and originals.
Joe Henry & Billy Bragg celebrate the musical heritage of train travel
The pair will be playing songs from an album that collects classic train-themed songs, performed at train stations across the U.S.
All in the family, with folk duo Roger Roger
These folk-singer siblings have a natural affinity and harmony together.
“You’re going to keep making”
Singer-songwriter Craig Cardiff on making a career of the thing he’d be doing anyways
Interview: Amanda Rheaume raises awareness of #MMIW with new album
Ottawa singer/songwriter Amanda Rheaume, is set to release her third studio album, Holding Patterns, with a CD release concert at NAC’s Fourth Stage on May 5, 2016, which will also kick off her Canadian tour. Joining her onstage will be the same 4 musicians featured on the album. They are Anders Drerup (guitar/vocals), Jim Bryson […]
Ottawa-raised art-folk songwriter Lora Bidner launching album
Two years, hundreds of hours, and plenty of love and money later Lora Bidner is all set for the release of To the North, her impressive full length debut. The Ottawa-raised art-folk songwriter is celebrating with a release show at Live on Elgin on September 26. Saturday’s release show will be a rare chance to […]
Marvest: Terry McLeish sings about “the everyday dilemmas of everyday people”
Marvest is an offshoot of the CityFolk festival that runs between September 16th and 20th, at the Aberdeen Pavilion, and along Bank Street. These mostly free shows feature local artists, and we’ll be profiling some of those artists. Folk singer-songwriter Terry McLeish will be bringing his funny, lively performance to the upcoming CityFolk Marvest festival. McLeish got his […]
Gordon Lightfoot plays for packed crowd at Southam Hall
Upon the mention of the name Lightfoot, words like troubadour, singer/songwriter genius, and Canadian folk music legend come to mind…to name a few. But more, he has the ability to write songs that stick like glue. Completely memorable songs that have woven their way through our lives, with each one reminding us of a certain […]
Rae Spoon :: Un concert qu’on mange à la petite cuillère
Par Mariette Delevallée Transgenre, transunivers, transparence… tant de mots à la frontière, pour ce chanteur à la voix claire et au costume ouaté. Ne pensez pas que l’emploi du masculin polarise ici l’auteur, le faisant basculer du côté mâle. Rae Spoon est ce chanteur à qui l’usage du français m’oblige de désobéir parce que le […]
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