Adam Cohen is Our Sunday Evening Main Stage Headliner

Adam Cohen is Our Sunday Evening Main Stage Headliner

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adamCohenThree albums into a career that began with his 1998 self-titled debut, Adam Cohen had decided to call it quits, his career as a singer-songwriter not meeting his expectations. But he decided to give it another go, and the wonderful result was his very successful, Like A Man (2011). It has been described as the album through which Adam Cohen “set about a quiet rapprochement with his DNA.” It went gold, Adam went on a long world tour, and anticipation started building for the follow-up.

During a break between concerts, Cohen went into the studio and emerged with a new album, which he scrapped because it didn’t feel honest to him. He quickly made up for it with his next effort, We Go Home (2014), which squarely hit the target. The songs were recorded in rooms as familiar to him as his name, in the little white house on the Greek island of Hydra where he had spent much of his childhood, and in Montreal in the house where he spent his earliest years. The beautiful result is described as “… a brilliant, a warm, rootsy, emotive record…a magnificent bunch of songs.”

While the album has familial and generational inflections – many of the lyrics reference songs of his father, Leonard Cohen – this is no case of riding coat-tails. Adam Cohen has integrated these ideas cleverly and pleasingly to create his own, new and powerful songs. The album’s release was followed by a whirlwind tour that started in Denmark, winded its way through Europe, moved on to Australia, and now brings him to Mariposa Folk Festival.

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Mariposa Folk Festival Announces Fantastic 2014 Line-Up

Mariposa Folk Festival Announces Fantastic 2014 Line-Up

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fantastic2014The Grande Dame of Canadian folk festivals has announced the full, fantastic line-up for the 54th annual event taking place July 4-5-6, 2014, at Tudhope Park in Orillia, Ontario, Canada.

Mariposa is known for presenting the best singer-songwriters on the music scene, and this year is no exception. But notable in the line-up this year is the large number of bands and groups that will perform on the festival’s eleven stages. They hail from the South Pacific, Ireland, Australia, Cuba and many locales across Canada and the United States.

According to Artistic Director, Mike Hill, “Some of these groups rarely perform in Canada. With so many of them on the bill, this year the festival atmosphere will definitely be energetic”.

The Main Stage headliners range from the diverse, eclectic, authentic, and exciting, Ani DiFranco; to folk, pop, rock and blues artist in the Americana tradition, Rosanne Cash; to the jagged and lush sounds of HYDRA (featuring AroarA, Feist, Snowblink). It’s a varied range of headliners, just as the overall festival line-up encompasses a wide range of genres, styles and influences.

“We’re proud to present three headliners who are so influential both artistically, and as women in music”, said Mike Hill, adding that “Rosanne Cash, Ani DiFranco, and HYDRA (featuring AroarA, Feist, Snowblink) represent a wonderful cross section of talent”.

With fifty renowned roots artists and more than a hundred performances over a three-day period, this year’s Mariposa Folk Festival has something for every musical taste. But there’s lots more than music. Mariposa also features audience camping, folk activities for children, an Artisans’ Village, exhibits and displays, hands-on learning opportunities, a range of carefully selected food vendors, an Emporium stocked with music, merchandise and hard-to-find collectibles, a pub tent and more.

The vibe alone is worth the price of admission.

Tickets are on sale at www.mariposafolk.com. This includes the Hot Weekend Pass for Young Adults (Ages 19-24) for only $59, and the Youth Pass (Ages 13-18) for only $15. Kids are admitted free!

HYDRA (featuring AroarA, Feist, Snowblink) to Headline the Saturday Evening Main Stage

HYDRA (featuring AroarA, Feist, Snowblink) to Headline the Saturday Evening Main Stage

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HYDRA1HYDRA 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.

HYDRA2Montreal-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
Notley. It interprets a depression era tableaux laced with quotations from the folk, blues and gospel music of that period.

HYDRA3Starting with her 2004 Juno award winning album, Feist hit the ground running fast. Her next album earned her
four Grammy nominations, six Juno wins, the Shortlist Music Prize, and the opportunity to teach Muppets to count on Sesame Street. She made her Saturday Night Live debut, toured the world, covered an album with Beck, recorded with Wilco, saw Stephen Colbert shimmy in a sequined 1234 jumpsuit, and made a documentary. Then, after resting for a while, she released her album, Metals, which inspired the three-headed collaborative project know as HYDRA.

HYDRA4One 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.

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