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South Country Fair

By Candace On May 13, 2020 · Add Comment
South Country Fair (Fort MacLeod, AB) July 17-19, began as a camping weekend for several local folk clubs in 1987; intended for organizers to get to know each other better, it morphed into an annual 3-day event, open to the public. They’re still trying to get to know one another, but The Fair seems to [...]
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Artist Spotlight: Bonjay

By Candace On May 7, 2020 · Add Comment
Dancehall-bred. Orchestrated like old soul. Driven by emotive vocals inspired as much by Feist as by Yolanda Adams. There’s a rawness to Bonjay: to the feelings, to the voice, to the sounds clashing. It sounds like something new. In cities and suburbs around the world, the next generation of young musicians are emerging. Inspired by [...]
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Vancouver Folk Music Festival

By Candace On May 6, 2020 · Add Comment
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival (Vancouver, BC) July 17-19, is a Canadian cultural institution; a unique community-based celebration internationally renowned for presenting the finest traditional and contemporary folk and roots music from around the world. Each year, the Festival draws more than 40,000 enthusiastic attendees to beautiful Jericho Beach Park. Two and even three generations [...]
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Artist Spotlight: Riit

By Candace On April 30, 2020 · Add Comment
From the land that never melts comes a sound that radiates life, youth and promise. Riit, from majestic Panniqtuq, Nunavut, is a new artist making space for herself in the electropop world with Inuktitut lyrics and deep rhythmic vocals layered over gemological synth cuts and sticky, staticky electronic textures. Riit’s music emerges from very distinct [...]
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Tay Creek Folk Festival

By Candace On April 29, 2020 · Add Comment
Started in 2008 by Jenifer Jobbins, the Tay Creek Folk Festival (Tay Creek, NB) July 17 – 19, is an annual opportunity for New Brunswick musicians to gather & perform in a beautiful country setting. Tay Creek Folk Festival has received and ‘A’ on the Canadian Festival Report Card for the past two years. Visit [...]
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Artist Spotlight: The Galpines

By Candace On April 23, 2020 · Add Comment
The Infamous Galpines! A Nerdy Girly Dirt Band from Moncton, NB The past few years have been busy for The Galpines as they released their first full-length record entitled “Sorry Mom”, toured the summer festival circuit including appearances at Paddlefest, Folly Fest and Messtival, took their live show to Ontario, and added bad bitch Kendra [...]
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Dawson City Music Festival

By Candace On April 22, 2020 · Add Comment
The first Dawson City Music Festival (July 17-19, 2020, Dawson City, Yukon) took place in 1979. It was an intimate, two-day affair among friends, comprising a jam session on a West Dawson farm and a dance at Diamond Tooth Gertie’s. Quickly realizing that the Festival was too good a secret to keep, an enterprising band [...]
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Artist Spotlight: Kelly Bado

By Candace On April 16, 2020 · Add Comment
With influences from her African heritage, la chanson française and American gospel, Kelly’s music crosses cultural barriers to bring people together in joy and hope. Striking vocals and uplifting melodies make for a performance that stays with the audience long after the show is over. Kelly has created a sound and message that is an [...]
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Ness Creek Festival

By Candace On April 15, 2020 · Add Comment
Ness Creek Cultural and Recreational Society presents the Ness Creek Festival (Saskatoon, SK) July 16-19, is reputed as “The best time you can have in one weekend!” Four Magical Days celebrating Music, Arts, Community and Ecology in the breathtaking setting of the Boreal Forest. Over 30 Main Stage performances, Workshop stage, Eco-Village, Artisan Market, Community Kitchen, [...]
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Artist Spotlight: Ursidae

By Candace On April 9, 2020 · Add Comment
If folk music is “all the music that fits between the cracks”, then ursidae springs forth from the lush, dark soil that lives between rocks and sidewalk squares. This alt-folk offering is the solo project of Vancouver-based musician Caro Deady. Tapped into tradition, and stirred by the indie folk stylings of Daughter, Bon Iver, and [...]
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    Secret Frequency (formerly Canadian Women Working in Music) is and education and advocacy not-for-profit dedicated to raising the profile of under-represented people within Canada’s music community – women, trans and non-binary folks, racialized and Indigenous people, and more.

    We’d like the music community to be as awesome as it pretends to be.  We want it to be a safe, good place to party, to create, and to work.

    We’re ready to rock the boat, even if it’s the boat that some of us are sitting in; no organization or individual should be above question or consequences.

    If you don’t invite us to the table, we’ll show up anyway, and we’ll bring our own chair.

    We produce the annual Canadian Festival Report Card, grading Gender representation on Festival stages, skills workshops, research, and more.  We aim to create initiatives with demonstrable, measurable impact, which are also accessible and modular, designed to be shared and implemented by other organizations.

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