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  • Tottenham Bluegrass Festival
    Grade A Festivals

    Tottenham Bluegrass Festival

    March 25, 2020 /

    The Tottenham Bluegrass Festival (Tottenham, ON) June 19-21, is three days of Bluegrass Music in the natural amphitheater of the Tottenham Conservation Area, by the waters of the village pond.

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    Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival

    April 8, 2020

    Sasquatch Gathering

    April 1, 2020

    Blue Skies

    July 8, 2020
  • Les Petites Nouveax
    Artists,  Ontario

    Artist Spotlight: Les Petites Nouveax

    March 20, 2020 /

    Les Petits Nouveaux is a jazz ensemble who’s music is inspired by the legendary guitarist, Django Reinhardt. While many artists have taken to interpreting the classics of this genre known as Jazz Manouche, Les Petits Nouveaux’s goal is to incorporate modern influences and to bring a fresh sound to a genre that is often approached with traditionalism. Les Petits Nouveaux’s humble beginnings can be traced to the halls of Humber College, where many students discovering their love of Django Reinhardt formed an ensemble to perform his music. Many years have since past, and the spirit of the ensemble now lives on beyond the confines of the institution. ​Now Les Petits…

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    Artist Spotlight: Claire Morrison

    January 7, 2014

    Artist Spotlight: Kelly Bado

    April 16, 2020
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    Artist Spotlight: Luna Li

    March 27, 2020
  • DIY Spring Festival
    Grade A Festivals

    DIY Spring Festival

    March 18, 2020 /

    DIY Spring Festival (Ottawa, ON) June 5, promotes, supports and celebrates the work of emerging Black, Indigenous and racialized artists in the Ottawa area through an annual music and arts festival.

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    Sasquatch Gathering

    April 1, 2020

    Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival

    July 29, 2020

    Lunenberg Folk Harbour Festival

    July 15, 2020
  • MONOWHALES
    Artists,  Ontario

    Artist Spotlight: MONOWHALES

    March 6, 2020 /

    Fueled by a passionate desire to create a sound as unapologetic and powerful as the personalities within the band, MONOWHALES have taken the experiences gained fighting their way up the ranks of Toronto’s music scene and barrelled headlong into the creation of their new EP Control Freak. Exploding onto the scene with a DIY ethos and an unforgettable live show, MONOWHALES first made waves with their breakout single Home in August 2016. The band would go on to share stages with Dear Rouge, K.Flay, Matt and Kim, Coleman Hell, and many more. The band’s new EP Control Freak, released in June 2018, was produced by AL-P (MSTRKRFT, Death From Above…

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    Artist Spotlight: The Galpines

    April 23, 2020
    Evangeline-Gentle

    Artist Spotlight: Evangeline Gentle

    June 4, 2020

    Artist Spotlight: Jeanne Rochette

    May 21, 2020
  • Ottawa Grassroots Festival
    Grade A Festivals

    Ottawa Grassroots Festival

    March 4, 2020 /

    The Ottawa Grassroots Festival (Ottawa, ON) April 23-26, is a family-friendly, volunteer run, not-for-profit music festival - a joyful celebration that will launch you into Spring!

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    DIY Spring Festival

    DIY Spring Festival

    March 18, 2020

    Lunenberg Folk Harbour Festival

    July 15, 2020

    River & Sky Music Festival

    May 20, 2020
  • Winter Folk Camp
    Grade A Festivals

    Winter Folk Camp

    February 19, 2020 /

    Winter Folk Camp (Haliburton, ON) is 6 amazing performers/instructors, 3 days of music workshops, 3 nights of song circles and jam sessions, 2 concerts, 1 site with great food, and outdoor activities

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    March 5, 2019

    River & Sky Music Festival

    May 20, 2020

    Regina Folk Festival

    July 22, 2020
  • Laila Biali
    Artists,  Ontario

    Artist Spotlight: Laila Biali

    February 14, 2020 /

    Multi award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist Laila Biali has toured with Chris Botti, Paula Cole, Suzanne Vega and Sting. She has headlined festivals and venues spanning five continents including Carnegie Hall. Her accolades include a 2019 JUNO Award for “Vocal Jazz Album of the Year”, “SOCAN Composer of the Year” and “Keyboardist of the Year” at Canada’s National Jazz Awards, a JUNO nomination for her studio recording Tracing Light, and a spot on DownBeat Magazine’s “Best Albums of the Year” list for her follow-up Live in Concert. In 2015, Laila released her first album of entirely original music, House of Many Rooms – an indie-pop project featuring a star-studded lineup…

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    Artist Spotlight: Claire Morrison

    January 7, 2014

    Artist Spotlight: Rakkatak

    May 28, 2020

    Artist Spotlight: Riit

    April 30, 2020
  • NXNE PRESENTS A SAUSAGE FESTIVAL - Electric City Magazine
    Articles,  Big Ideas

    NXNE PRESENTS A SAUSAGE FESTIVAL

    July 8, 2016 /

    From a piece I wrote for Electric City Magazine: “The Canadian music industry is a diverse, varied place, but you wouldn’t know it from the endless parade of white guys with guitars wanking across the festival stages and conference panels of the nation. Over the past month, NXNE have been releasing the lineup for their Portlands festival, and the list, while appearing more racially diverse with the most recent release, is still very dude-heavy. With three women-fronted bands and one genderqueer artist out of 16 total acts released so far, I have to ask: where the fuck are the women, NorthBy?” Read the rest at Electric City Magazine.

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    Some thoughts about - and a good, green idea for - Music Submissions

    Some thoughts about – and a good, green idea for – Music Submissions

    April 22, 2016

    Listening to 2012 Festival Submissions: Part 3

    June 3, 2013

    Ideas: the difference between a folk festival and a music festival

    November 12, 2013
  • Articles,  Big Ideas,  Events,  Ontario

    Music City – A strategy

    April 7, 2016 /

    The points I’ve included below – headlined ‘A Strategy for Music Peterborough‘ – was created with my hometown in mind, but swap out a few names and organizations and this would be useful in any city to frame the way you approach different sectors with a view to creating a cohesive push to highlight music (or, I think, almost any local art or cultural highlight) and create a Music City mentality. I’ve made a few edits from the original document to make explicit the sort of things that I take as a given, but which aren’t obvious to everyone (like gender parity, inclusion of racialized people, good working conditions, etc.). A…

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    The Big Count 2018 – Canadian Festival Report Card

    April 27, 2018

    Listening to 2012 Festival Submissions: Part 1

    March 4, 2012

    Listening to 2012 Festival Submissions: Part 3

    June 3, 2013
  • Eaglewood Folk Festival
    Canadian Festival Report Card

    2015 Festival Report Card

    September 12, 2015 /

    In 2015, two volunteers collected data on festival lineups in our second iteration of the Canadian Festival Report Card. This report graded Ontario festivals on gender parity on their stages. Here are the results: A    45% – 50%+ (2 festivals) Home County Music & Art Festival ON – 61.11% Summerfolk ON – 60% B    35% – 44% (3 festivals) Hillside Festival ON – 38.10% CityFolk ON – 37.84% Live From The Rock Festival ON – 36.84% C    25% – 34% (2 festivals) Eaglewood Folk Festival ON – 33.33% Mariposa Folk Festival ON – 30% D – 15% – 24% (1 festival) Northern Lights Festival Boreal ON –…

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    2019 Canadian Festival Report Card

    2019 Canadian Festival Report Card

    January 21, 2020

    A short list of women and gender non-conforming Canadian artists

    April 8, 2018

    2017 Canadian Festival Report Card

    November 12, 2017
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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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