Brother and sister singer-songwriters Matthew Barber and Jill Barber always knew they’d make an album together. Growing up outside Toronto in the 1990s, they shared not only a left-handed guitar (older brother Matthew got the first one) but also a passion for music that fuelled their respective artistic careers. Two different paths were carved, but…
The Basin Brothers get your feet dancing, your heart singing and your lips smiling. Traditional country instruments hook ridden harmonies and original songsmiths, the Basin Brothers call the red shores and the world’s highest – and lowest – tides of the Minas Basin home. Settle in for some back porch down home high and hurting…
A master slide blues guitarist and songwriter, John Campbelljohn hails from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Over the course of his four decade-long career, John has won or been nominated for countless music awards including Maple Blues Awards, East Coast Music Awards, Real Blues Awards, Music Nova Scotia Entertainer Of The Year, Blues Recording…
Juno Award-winner and hit-maker, Classified, also known as Luke Boyd, has long been making waves at home and abroad with his trademark style and sound. With each release, the rapper-producer elevates his game; sharpening word play, experimenting with new sounds, and perfecting his flow. Now, Classified bring all to bear for his 15th studio album…
Sahara Jane and Kamila Nasr are sisters known for their close vocal harmonies and mastery of a variety of instruments. Being of mixed cultural heritage and growing up in a musical family in Nova Scotia, their original songwriting is influenced by Brazilian Bossa Nova, Indian Raga and Persian poetry as well as their Celtic roots….
A roots balladeer with a rare personal warmth, Canada’s Scott Cook has managed to distill the stories collected over a decade of near-incessant touring across Canada, the USA, Europe, Asia, and Australia into straight-talking, keenly observant verse. Road-worn, painfully honest, and deeply human, his tunes weave threads of folk, roots, blues, soul and country over…
Cindy Church – last year named to the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame – is as capable in jazz and folk as she is in country which is evidenced by her experience with Quartette, Lunch at Allen’s and previous work with Joe Sealy in The Nearness of You. She’s been awarded a Canadian…
Born and raised in North Sydney, Cape Breton, and living just outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Kim Dunn has been working on a successful music career for over thirty years, with a brief four year reprieve studying Jazz at ST. FX.
A native of the Acadian village of Rustico, PEI, Lennie Gallant has recorded eleven albums (nine mostly in English and two in French), which have won him a host of awards and nominations from the JUNOs, the East Coast Music Awards, and Les Prix Eloizes. He was recently honoured with a Canadian Folk Music Award…
Paul Aarntzen, one of Hillsburn’s three singers and the songwriting force behind the project, remembers clearly the first time the group got together in the spring of 2014: “We crammed four people and half a dozen instruments into my two-door hatchback, drove down to Hillsburn —the village on the Bay of Fundy where I used…
