Tag Archive for the term: folk

Whew! Over the next 3 weeks Indyish is involved in some great events and I’ve been busy like the proverbial freaking beaver putting them together! We are working with McGill University to put on their 3 days of Frosh events on the lower field next week, and with Concordia University Television to throw a three […]

Belleisle is a young group of old souls who jumped into recording to catch these sounds as they are coming together all early, earnest and yearning in the band-becoming-band process. Tasha Cyr’s voice is particularly delicate, charming, soo soul sad and careful, thoughtful, dropping soft things in her phrasing. (Tasha is recording with the Darling […]

Sandro Perri played after Tradition at Monday’s Suoni Festival show at Sala Rossa. I missed Tradition, but he’ll be back in August for a very special Fixture Records show that I’ll announce very soon…(suspense suspense).

Nathan posted about Sandro Perri’s Constellation release Tiny Mirrors a few months ago. I really enjoyed Perri’s set on Monday. […]

Organico by El KadySami

I’ve had a most lovely weekend of music, peaking with Jesse Winchester’s mesmerizing performance last night at Café Campus.
To Anglo Montrealers over 50, Jesse is a legend. He’s up there on the legend-o-meter with Nick Auf de Maur, the McGarrigle sisters, maybe even Leonard Cohen. The draft-dodger from Tennessee made a name for himself […]

Ah New Years. Ahh the whole season, actually, leaves me short on words. I like to get cozy with my new books (Wikinomics, thanks family!) and surface as little as possible following the ethically confusing gift bonanza, but meanwhile the New Year hollars for attention and despite my steely R n’ R resolve, parts of […]

Review: So Called @ Excentris on Dec. 6, 2007
By Darren Curtis
As someone who has never participated in the Montreal Chamber Festival, or actually aware of its existence for that matter, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that one of Montreal’s most innovative artists would be getting a showcase and I would be asked to photograph […]

Today Risa, Erik and James came over for a little jammy jam. In the last week we’ve played two folk traditionals from Great Britain - “Ca’ the Yowes,” a Robbie Burns tune, and a traditional Welsh carol/lullaby “All Through the Night.” Both these songs are traditionals I’ve grown up singing in choirs. And the last […]