Interview: Thelonious Hank, “Walk Between the Raindrops”
As I was listening to the new album from Thelonious Hank the other night, M stopped in his tracks and said, “Wow – that’s…
folk/roots
Review: Black Suit Devil, “The Freedom Sessions”
On a recent road trip that saw Team GDW once again heading north to catch a live show in Southern Ontario, L took charge…
Interview: Ambre McLean, “My Heart”
We’ve been waiting three years for Ambre McLean to release a new album – but “My Heart,” released just last month, was well worth…
The Fortunate Ones: An Intimate Evening at The Sanderson Centre
It is well known that Team GDW has a strong bond with The Sanderson Centre in Brantford, ON. Retuning once again to this wonderful…
Interview: Maxim and Gervais Cormier, “Cape Breton Guitar”
The superb flatpicking skills of Maxim Cormier first came to our attention with his last album, a collection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. …
Interview: Piper Hayes, “Piper and Carson”
With her gorgeous new album (out 8 December), “Piper & Carson,” Piper Hayes has created a soundscape not only of her life (depicted as…
Emm Gryner: Live in Forest, ON
One of the wonderful things about the US Thanksgiving Holiday is that it gives Team GDW a great opportunity to savor one last ‘long’…
Snappy Snippets, Holiday Style: O’Pears, Bros, Tomato Tomato, Emilie-Claire Barlow
For many people, the Christmas holidays are a time to pull out scads of holiday albums and crank up those old, familiar Christmas songs…
Le Vent du Nord: Live in Pennsylvania
We are incredibly fortunate to have a wonderful folk music society here in Central Pennsylvania that has an uncanny knack for bringing traditional Canadian…
Interview: The Dreadnoughts, “Foreign Skies”
As regular readers of GDW know, we’re big fans of folk music and write about it frequently. What you may not know is that…