Neo Folk Indie String Band – The BelleRegards
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With a pinch of bluegrass, a dash of rockabilly, and a dollop of neo folk, this 4-piece string band cooks up high-energy live shows, foot-stomping rhythms, trad breaks, and good humour.
Influenced by artists ranging from Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, to Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, The Clash and Fleetwood Mac, The BelleRegards serve-up something for every musical taste, with a heaping helping of indie edge on the side.
Led by a duo of singer-songwriter vocalists, the band’s sound is spiced-up by guitars, mandolin, harmonica, slapped and bowed upright bass, and old-timey fiddle.
They’re good, new-fashioned, foot-stompin’ fun, and we know you’ll find their sound simply ‘delicious’.
Singing in angelic harmony and with infectious joy, Dala makes instant fans of first time listeners.
From County Kerry in the south west of Ireland, Niamh Ní Charra was strongly influenced by the wealth of local Sliabh Luachra musicians.
Folk-rock group, The Most Loyal, is Sarah Davignon and a collection of her musical friends.
A collection of five close friends, a couple of whom wrote and played together as far back as high school, this Australian-based folk band keeps flying higher and higher.
Often compared to Woody Guthrie for her keen social awareness and unvarnished tunes about the lives of working people, Maria Dunn draws deeply on the folk tradition of storytelling through song.
Hearing Zachary Lucky’s songs, it would seem impossible to separate the singer-songwriter from his prairie origins.
HYDRA came together at the invitation of Feist to represent her most recent album, Metals, in a completely new live format at the Polaris Music Prize Awards. Joined by two husband and wife duos, Snowblink with their rich and textural ‘soundscapes’, and AroarA with their amplified cigar box twin guitar lines, together they conscripted both the jagged and the lush with mutating voices of not one head but three.
Montreal-based AroarA is a creative duo that amplifies cigar box guitars, uses a 404 sampler to trigger mellotrons and black sabbath bells, blends their voices, and plays twin guitar lines. Their album, In The Pines, is based on the work by the same title of American poet Alice
Starting with her 2004 Juno award winning album, Feist hit the ground running fast. Her next album earned her
One of the most compelling voices on the Canadian scene, Snowblink is a duo that describes its music as non-denominational devotional pop from California and Canada. Others have called it dreamy electro-folk. This group has opened for the likes of Feist, Jeff Tweedy, Great Lake Swimmers, and The Hidden Cameras on extended tours throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. They have also released two albums to critical acclaim.
An acoustic instrumentalist, Trevor Gordon Hall could be called virtuoso experimenter.
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The name may conjure graphic imagery but this dynamic duo is all about kicking out some pretty raw and primal blues.
Beautifully layered instrumentation, vast musical talent, and exquisite dynamics between performers, is the exciting experience of Seryn.
With crystal clear vocals, beautiful arrangements, exquisite song writing and extraordinary covers of some of the most powerful tunes of our era, Eileen Laverty knows how to please an audience.
Red Wanting Blue could be described as America’s local band.
A guitarist and aboriginal flute player, singer-songwriter, and music producer, Keith Secola is an accomplished folk and blues rocker.
A lot of great Canadian music has come out of Winnipeg over the decades, and this just might be the decade when The JD Edwards Band sets the Canadian scene on fire.
Every now an then a young artist with the confidence and depth of a storied minstrel comes along and blows you away. Kim Wempe is an artist like that.
His voice is like a diamond in the rough. His playing is accomplished and ground-breaking. His song writing is exquisite and profound. His stage presence is warm and gripping.
Every once in a while, a truly original, fantastic-sounding group comes along and creates excitement on the Americana music scene.
Newfoundland has always always been known as a rich source of folk music, and that definitely holds true with this dynamic duo from ‘The Rock’.