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

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

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...

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...

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...

What singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume was trying to convey in her 5th release is all there in the title. The Skin I’m In finds the...

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

For Sue Passmore, the holiday season just isn’t complete without one particular top of the list item. It’s not a nutmeg topped glass of...

It was nearing the witching hour and this reviewer needed an extra jolt or six of caffeine to push through to the other side of the hard...

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

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...

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Nicknames being slapped onto a musician are nothing new. We’ve got Kings and Killers, the Chairman of the Board, a Pope of Mope and even...

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

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

“It helped me realize that I wasn’t alone…that I could be weird and get away with it,” says Chris Rouse, reflecting on the music and man...

In Ukrainian the word korchma means “tavern”. If you attended one of last year’s extended Capital Ukrainian Festival late-night line-ups,...

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...

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

What an easy, breezy, beautiful night of bluegrass at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival and well, welly, well, well, well wasn’t that a...