C.R. Avery
punk poet troubadour
Bahamas
Great songcraft, guitar mastery, & melodic pop hooks
Barenaked Ladies
Canada’s pop-folk-rock princes
Blick Bassy
The New Voice of Cameroonian Soul
Begonia
Soul-infused pop songstress
Belle Game
hypnotic, orchestral indie-pop
Blind Pilot
Portland’s indie folk faves
Bob Bossin
Canada’s folk laureate
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
Shine A Light: Vintage Railroad Songs
Jim Bryson
Old-fashioned heart & soul
Jim Byrnes
The quintessential bluesman
Choir! Choir! Choir!
The ultimate sing-along experience!
Chouk Bwa Libète
Voudou Rhythms and Trance
Cold Specks
Doom Soul
Shawn Colvin
“New Folk’s” leading light
Delgres
Swamp blues & Carib spice
Cris Derksen
Orchestral powwow cello
Alpha Yaya Diallo
Front-ranking African axeman
Kathleen Edwards
Heartwarming and heartbreaking rocker
Ellika Solo Rafael
New global traditionalists
Ramy Essam
Cairo’s rebel rock poet
Ferron & her All Star Band
Groundbreaking feminist folk icon
Roy Forbes
BC’s singing, songwriting treasure
The Funk Hunters
Putting the soul back into EDM
Rhiannon Giddens
A peerless voice in roots music
Ganga Giri
Global didgeridoo
Noah Gundersen
Introspective songs from a young old soul
Hillsburn
Fresh folk-pop from the Maritimes
Matt Holubowski
worldly folk
ILAM
Reggae Blues Afro Folk
Emmanuel Jal
Music and a Message
Eilen Jewell
Versatile, confident roots-folk
Jonah Blacksmith
Scandinavian-Americana
Si Kahn
Rabble-rouser, organizer, folksinger
Korrontzi
Joyful Basque trad fusion
Jim Kweskin & Meredith Axelrod
Vintage American Songcatchers
The Mae Trio
Spellbinding folk from Oz
Mbongwana Star
Trans-global barrier-busting sound machine
Paul McKenna
A well-travelled bard
Mélisande [électrotrad]
Taking Québec trad somewhere else
Tift Merritt
Distaff country soul
Katie Moore and Andrew Horton
Comforting Canadian Classic
Jake Morley
Show-stealing voice from UK
Native North America: A Gathering of Indigenous Trailblazers
A Gathering of Indigenous Trailblazers
Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children
Inuit Indie
Aoife O’Donovan & Noam Pikelny
Roots music magic
Grace Petrie
Political folk-punk with a big heart
Leonard Podolak
5-string claw hammer banjo master
The Revivalists
“A groove-oriented jam band” – Rolling Stone
Archie Roach
Indigenous music’s elder statesman
Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band
Joyful roots music, beautifully performed
RURA
Punch-packing Scots trad
Clinton & Lorna St. John
Avant-garde folk
John K. Samson & The Winter Wheat
Venerable indie-folk hero
La Santa Cecilia
A genre-bending Mexican-American band from LA
Andy Shauf
“anxious man w/ an angelic voice”
Nick Sherman
Boreal forest blues
Gabrielle Shonk
A unique and timeless voice
Sidestepper
New beats from Bogotá
The Slocan Ramblers
High-octane Hogtown Bluegrass
The Sojourners
Soul-stirring gospel for trying times
Tomato Tomato
Organic Rootsy Washboard Folk
True Blues featuring Corey Harris & Alvin Youngblood Hart
The wellspring of American music
Will Varley
A 21st Century Folk Troubadour
Leif Vollebekk
Ethereal, spare folk music
Luke Wallace
The singing diplomat
Wesli
A spicy Port-au-Prince pot-au-feu