Jenny Scheinman is an odd duck of a musician, working on the one hand in a kind of avant garde jazz idiom and on the other hand in a singer/songwriter/violinist mode. On her third hand she’s done excellent klezmer-like fusion. […]
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Well, it’s been a while but the wait was worth it. Coco Love Alcorn is back with a sparkling new album, Wonderland (which spent several weeks at or near the top of Canada’s folk charts), a grueling tour involving venues […]
Eric Bibb is a wonder. He’s 64 years old and looks two decades younger, as slim, stylish and handsome as ever; he’s been working professionally for going on 50 years and still tours relentlessly and apparently tirelessly; his dynamic but […]
There was a time when Colin Linden, ex of Toronto and now in Nashville, was on the road all the time. There was ample chance to see him exercise his excellent chops with The Band, Bob Dylan, Bruce Cockburn, Blackie […]
It’s not every theatre experience that begins with a walk past an apparent beautiful corpse in a coffin, proceeds through a graveyard to the theatre auditorium, and then impresses with a rousing musical number performed by ghosts wielding an array of […]
I see that the Zunior.com music site is having a boxing-day sale, including a number of albums that have been featured here on ND. It’s only $4.44 for very good-quality (usually 320kbps) rips, $2 additional for full CD quality. Paypal accepted. Includes […]
Well, it’s that time of year; time to hear the repetitive sound of Christmas song schlock everywhere we go. So let’s have something of a corrective to that joy-destroying experience. What are your favorite worthy Christmas recordings, ones that you, […]
Male/female duets; on the one side Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Cassandra Wilson, Patti Scialfa, Serena Ryder, Amy Helm and sundry accomplished sisters; on the other Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. I was worried. I’ve been a fan of […]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle are the iconic Canadian folk duo at the center (with many others) of the seventies folk revival. Accomplished songwriters and wonderful performers, they were contemporary with (and influenced) the early careers of stars like Emmylou Harris, […]
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