2016 Favorites: Ontario
Given the great year in Canadian music generally, it would be dead easy to focus on the bigger artists working on Ontario (and there were…
Given the great year in Canadian music generally, it would be dead easy to focus on the bigger artists working on Ontario (and there were…
As we continue to explore a banner year in releases province by province, we come to Alberta and Manitoba. Once again, I’ve found a…
I had already decided to continue on our theme of favorites-by-province when Music/Musique NB released their 2016 releases poll, so I was happy to…
My love for Canadian music began with a trip to Montréal in 1999 that happened to coincide with the Francofolies festival. My first introduction…
BeatRouteBC’s “best of Vancouver” releases list prompted me to spend some time digging through 2016 releases from British Columbia. It seems only fair, since…
Given that Team GDW have enjoyed a decent volume of live concert material throughout 2016, I wanted to share some of the performances that…
Recently Saskatchewan Music posted their 2016 longlist for voting, complete with a Spotify playlist containing many of the nominated projects. Because I was mostly…
After our wonderful experience in London, ON, with Elliott Brood and the Great Lake Swimmers, the next evening found us travelling to Guelph for…
For Alberta-based folk duo 100 Mile House, 2016 has been a banner year professionally. Their current release “Hiraeth,” a stunning collection of acoustic gems,…
As we moved into the final month of 2016, we hit the road north of the US border once again for our most recent…