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  • FLOURISH Festival
    Grade A Festivals

    FLOURISH Festival

    February 26, 2020 /

    FLOURISH Fest (Fredericton, NB) is an annual music and art festival presenting music, art, theatre, installations, pop-up events, workshops and more across the city.

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    CWWIM changes to Secret Frequency

    March 5, 2019

    Stan Rogers Folk Festival

    May 27, 2020

    Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival

    July 29, 2020
  • PIQSIQ
    Artists,  Northwest Territories,  Nunavut

    Artist Spotlight: PIQSIQ

    February 21, 2020 /

    With a style perpetually galvanized by darkness and haunting northern beauty, sisters, Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik and Kayley Inuksuk Mackay, come together to create Inuit style throat singing duo, PIQSIQ.  Performing ancient traditional songs and eerie new compositions, they leave their listeners enthralled with the infinity of possible answers to the question “what is the meaning of life.”  With roots in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot and Kivalliq Regions, the sisters grew up in Yellowknife, NWT, where endless sunlight shines for two short summer months and deep, wintery darkness consumes the rest of the year.  These environmental extremes had a huge impact on Tiffany and Kayley’s overall aesthetic and the pair have always engrossed…

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    Artist Spotlight: Rakkatak

    May 28, 2020
    Evangeline-Gentle

    Artist Spotlight: Evangeline Gentle

    June 4, 2020

    Artist Spotlight: Jeanne Rochette

    May 21, 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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    Wavelength Winter Festival

    Wavelength Winter Festival

    February 5, 2020

    Harmony Bazaar Festival of Women & Song

    June 24, 2020
    FLOURISH Festival

    FLOURISH Festival

    February 26, 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: Rakkatak

    May 28, 2020

    Artist Spotlight: Kelly Bado

    April 16, 2020
    Witch-Prophet

    Artist Spotlight: Witch Prophet

    June 18, 2020
  • Block Heater
    Grade A Festivals

    Block Heater

    February 12, 2020 /

    Block Heater February 20-22, 2020WebsiteFacebookInstagram Calgary Folk Music Festival presents the fifth annual Block Heater (Calgary, AB) February 20-22, in the heart of Calgary’s Inglewood and East Village. Over thirty artists — from the homegrown to the far-flung — perform in concerts and collaborative sessions at five uniquely Calgary venues: the Central Library, Festival Hall, Gorilla Whale, Ironwood, King Eddy, and Studio Bell. Cure your winter cabin fever and wander from stage to stage featuring everything from the truest folk to the newest hip hop! Visit their website for tickets and lineup info!

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    Tay Creek Folk Festival

    April 29, 2020

    Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival

    July 29, 2020

    Stan Rogers Folk Festival

    May 27, 2020
  • Elisapie
    Artists,  Nunavut

    Artist Spotlight: Elisapie

    February 7, 2020 /

    Director, composer, singer-songwriter and activist, Elisapie Isaac comes from the Arctic. “The North is not at the other end of the world. It’s at the heart of mine.” Through myriad projects, Elisapie has established herself as a true Inuit icon. She was first discovered in 2003 as the director of her documentary If the Weather Permits, a film which thrust viewers into her own origin story. The following year, she released her first album with the duo Taima, winning a Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year. She has since released two solo albums, There Will be Stars (2009) and Travelling Love (2013). The most recent one was…

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    Artist Spotlight: The 24th Street Wailers

    August 7, 2013

    Artist Spotlight: Unbuttoned

    August 20, 2013
    SF ARTIST DATABASE

    A longish list of cis and trans women, trans men, and non binary artists and bands

    February 24, 2020
  • Wavelength Winter Festival
    Grade A Festivals

    Wavelength Winter Festival

    February 5, 2020 /

    Wavelength Winter Festival has received an ‘A’ on the Canadian Festival Report Card for the past three years. Visit their website for tickets and lineup info for 2020!

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    DIY Spring Festival

    DIY Spring Festival

    March 18, 2020
    Tottenham Bluegrass Festival

    Tottenham Bluegrass Festival

    March 25, 2020

    Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival

    April 8, 2020
  • 2019 Canadian Festival Report Card
    Canadian Festival Report Card

    2019 Canadian Festival Report Card

    January 21, 2020 /

    The 2019 Canadian Festival Report Card is here! Canadian Festival Report Card: 2019 Highlights 54 festivals were graded at an ‘A,’ down from 57 in 2018 (booooo) 116 festivals were graded Every province and territory in Canada is represented in this report card, for the third year in a row. However, many of the provinces/territories only have a few festivals listed, and we need to work in future to increase the numbers of festivals graded. As a group, these 116 festivals get an ‘A’ grade, booking 46% women-identifying or non-binary artists (up from 43% women-identifying or non-binary artists in 2018) This is a heartening result, as it means that overall,…

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    2019 festival report card

    The Big Count – 2019 Festival Report Card

    June 18, 2019

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

    April 8, 2018
    2018 festival report card

    2018 Canadian Festival Report Card

    March 6, 2019
  • 2018 festival report card
    Articles,  Canadian Festival Report Card

    2018 Canadian Festival Report Card

    March 6, 2019 /

    The 2018 Canadian Festival Report Card is here, and the results are heartening. Canadian Festival Report Card: 2018 Highlights 57 festivals were graded at an ‘A,’ up from 34 in 2017 113 festivals were graded Every province and territory in Canada is represented in this report card As a group, these 113 festivals get a ‘B’ grade, booking 43% women-identifying or non-binary artists (up from 36.5% women-identifying or non-binary artists in 2017) This is a big improvement, but we have questions: are women getting headlining slots? Are racialized and LGBTQ artists getting booked? Are women, racialized people, and LGBTQ people getting paid equally in comparison to their white, straight, Cis,…

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    Listening to 2012 Festival Submissions: Part 3

    June 3, 2013

    Listening to 2012 Festival Submissions: Part 2

    June 3, 2013
    On not getting gigs or grants - ChocQuibTown at The Distillery District

    On not getting gigs or grants.

    July 30, 2015
  • Articles,  Big Ideas,  Canadian Festival Report Card

    The Big Count 2018 – Canadian Festival Report Card

    April 27, 2018 /

    We need your help with The Big Count 2018 -for the Canadian Festival Report Card! La traduction française suit ci-dessous (nos excuses pour le mauvais français!) As we’ve done for the past few years (2016, 2017), we’re collecting data on festivals and music series to find out how many women-identifying, transgendered, and non-gender-binary people are being presented at festivals and concert series across Canada. What we need from you is to choose a festival that doesn’t appear on the list below and give us a link to their lineup online and a count of the number of women-fronted, men-fronted, transgendered-fronted and non-gender-binary-fronted people are included. It can be a festival that…

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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

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

    November 12, 2013
    2018 festival report card

    2018 Canadian Festival Report Card

    March 6, 2019
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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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