Allison Brown makes it all appear so effortless. She is blessed with one of those big voices that can fill a room and the sense to hold back from belting that voice up to the rafters with all her might. […]
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There’s a deceptive simplicity to the arrangements on Shawn Clarke’s debut full length release. With his clear agreeable voice and a sweetly folky style of finger-picking, the subversiveness of many of Shawn Clarke’s lyrics may not be immediately evident. With the exception […]
I’ve been housebound for days, while the north wind whips the snow across glassy roads and the mercury plummets to -22C. It’s pitch black by 5:00. Days like these, you need an escape. I found it in Family Tree, the […]
Maybe it was the big-haired rocker chick photo gracing the cover of Skeleton Arm, conjuring up flashbacks of Alannah Myles, which caused me to prejudge. I turned off this album before the first minute was done, dismissing it as too […]
Akin to closing up the cottage on the last weekend of September, the ghosts of summer evenings already haunting the waters lapping the rocks, campfire embers rapidly cooling under the first fallen leaves, listening to Provincial Parks & Breaking Hearts […]
Rooted in Americana and spouting a folk pop sensibility, Emma Hill’s Clumsy Seduction is rife with discovery. From unusual tempo changes to unexpected torch songs, from flirting with found sounds to cracking up on hidden tracks, there are surprises around […]
It’s an objection you occasionally hear as the weekly leaks trickle out, an objection which inevitably turns vociferous when the full lineup of the Calgary Folk Festival is finally revealed, as it was today. “It’s not folk enough!” I don’t […]
The Calgary Folk Festival is no place to be if you are trying to look good in a bathing suit. From the minute you step through the gates and start to wander down the treed pathway toward the main-stage area, […]
It took a magazine contest to get me to the Calgary Folk Festival. We had been in Calgary for about five years, and I was just emerging from that musically bereft wasteland that often accompanies those years of child-rearing when […]
I probably shouldn’t be admitting this, but I would pay to volunteer at the Calgary Folk Festival. Those four days in July are without a doubt my favourite time of the year. The fact that I get to hang around […]
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