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Q&A: Rosie & the Riveters’ Allyson Reigh

“Gritty”, “sultry”, “daring”…these are just a few of the words released into the ether around the release of Ms. Behave, the new album...

Notes from the Underground with Too Many Zooz

Fun fact: According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, we here in The Great White North have about 1000 organized zoos housing an estimated...

Graven and the O-town Scene

Alright, I know my buddy Matty McKechnie has a new band called The New Band but, between you, me and that guy who doesn’t look at me...

Altameda: New Treads, Old Ground, Fresh Roads

To purloin a few lines from The Boss, when it comes to ye olde romance “it ought to be easy / ought to be simple enough / man meets woman...

Talkin’ Jazz with Steve Berndt

If you’ve been out to an O-town festival or caught some live music at one of the clubs, chances are you’ve seen Steve Berndt perform. The...

Heat Up the Winter With Jazz Fest

Alright, so I know you’ve been reading about recording breaking temperature drops, polar vortexes and the kind of O-town freeze that...

Megan Bonnell's Separate Rooms

A singer/songwriter? A folk musician? Some new age indie artist? When approaching her third album, aptly titled Separate Rooms, Megan...

Erin, Amelia and Sweet Marie

12 East Coast Music Award nominations with wins for Solo Recording of the Year, R&B Recording of the Year and the first woman to receive...

Q&Autogramm

Autogramm n (genitive Autogramms, plural Autogramme) 1. (signature of a celebrity given to a fan) autograph Jiffy Marx, C.C. Voltage and...

Gallery: CityFolk 2018

The Ottawa Folk Festival (now strumming to the tune of CityFolk) turned 25 this year. I was asked to celebrate this milestone by snapping...

Q&A with Audrey Saparno

Born and raised in Ottawa, Audrey Saparno has been strumming her acoustic guitar and weaving warm tunes since as long as she can...

Ten Minutes with Passenger

Mike Rosenberg took two steps back to take in his 2015 CityFolk audience. He’d just been willed back on stage by thousands singing his...

Shawn Mendes Turns Bluesfest into Screamfest

What's a couple hundred secondary school students aboard a runaway roller coaster being chased by a pack of hungry velociraptors sound...

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