Ken Yates Archives - Great Dark Wonder

folk/roots, pop, video releases4 April 2022<4 April 2022

Video Vault – Visual Delights For April

We kick off our week of ‘music videos coverage’ with our latest edition of Video Vault. The music videos are overflowing in our email…

festival, folk/roots22 July 2020<22 July 2020

Mid July is typically a time when we pack up the car and head north to London, ON for the Home County Music &…

folk/roots, reviews22 May 2020<22 May 2020

“If I don’t know by now, I don’t think I ever will,” Ken Yates sings in “Grey County Blues,” the opening song of “Quiet…

folk/roots, single releases20 March 2020<20 March 2020

There are some particular moments in time here at GDW that are kind of hard to forget. Take, for example, September 30th, 2016, the…

concert recaps29 December 2017<29 December 2017

Around this time last year I compiled 10 tracks that were experienced live that stood out for me personally and gave a stronger appreciation…

concert recaps, folk/roots13 November 2017<13 November 2017

It is amazing, given the frequency of our visits to the GTA, how there are a handful of well-established musical acts from that part…

concert recaps5 July 2017<5 July 2017

Team GDW were both shocked and thrilled when Kathleen Edwards announced her plans to perform in the USA last month. Shocked because she so…

reviews28 December 2016<28 December 2016

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…

interview31 October 2016<31 October 2016

In his latest project, “Huntsville,” Ken Yates anchors his music firmly in the soil of northern Ontario, a place he clearly loves. “It’s the…