Year 2013

Lena Anderssen

She's been called “hauntingly honest, poetically pensive, and radiantly real”. For Lena Anderssen, writing and performing songs is not only what she wants to do, it is what she is all about. Her music comes straight from the core of her being, from personal stories of longing, regrets, dreams, heartache and hope, and her vocals “dance between...

Sam Baker

Way too often and improperly, artists are described by comparison to others – but in the case of Sam Baker, the likening of his songs to “Leonard Cohen’s, if Cohen had been a Baptist raised in West Texas”* rings startlingly true as a means of introduction. At the same time, you are unlikely to come across a more original...

Del Barber

Hailing from Winnipeg, this young guitar-playing songwriter has been called “one of Canada’s most promising young troubadours” by the Winnipeg Free Press. He started out as a wanderer of the North American landscape, working at jobs ranging from a waiter to a mountain guide to a fisherman, learning about life, trading stories and chords with other folkies...

Black Prairie

What began as an experimental bluegrass side-project by three members of The Decemberists, Jenny Conlee (vocals, accordion), Nate Query (bass, cello) and Chris Funk (vocals, bazouki, dobro, weissenborn), together with fellow Portland musicians Annalisa Tornfelt (vocals, fiddle) and Jon Neufeld (guitar, vocals) in 2007 has morphed, after two albums, into quite a phenomenon. The Black Prairie soundscape is unique...

Bon Débarras

Bon Débarras (in English: “good riddance” and also “good storage”) is a trio of brilliant young Montréal multi-instrumentalists who play music at full throttle. They bring together traditional French-Canadian music inspired, through immigration, by Irish, Scottish and English music with the influences of modern-day, multicultural Montreal. The result is an original roots music that just pulses with the infectious beat of podorythmie...

Dalannah Gail Bowen

African-Canadian/Cherokee singer Dalannah Gail Bowen has been making music for forty years on the Canadian blues, rock and soul scene. Her style has been described as "Billie Holiday meets Howlin" Wolf", and she’s known for having “a truly spectacular set of pipes…Smoky. Earthy. Soulful. Powerful.” (Canadian Musician). She is also an activist and socially conscious powerhouse...

Briga

Briga, aka Brigitte Dajczer’s music reflects a fully-embraced, multi-faceted identity: her father is Polish and her mother is Québecois, she was raised in Western Canada and now lives in Montreal. Her repertoire is a hybrid of songs written in French and English, all accompanied by her fervent violin-playing and deeply rooted in the Easter European and Romani folk songs ...

The Brothers Comatose

Actual brothers Alex (banjo, vocals) and Ben (guitar, vocals) Morrison hail from a household that was hangout for local San Francisco musicians and known for throwing great music parties. Everyone would bring an instrument and call out tunes. Together with fellow partier Gio Benedetti (bass), Philip Brezina (fiddle) and Ryan Avellone (mandolin) they’ve taken the generous, rowdy house party attitude...

Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys

The Mayor of Opelousas, Louisiana (the Zydeco Capital of the World) calls Jeffery Broussard "one of the greatest accordion players to ever grace our beautiful Creole culture and for that matter, the world." Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, Broussard started his music career at the age of eight when he played drums in his father‘s band...
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