The Fretless are a Canadian folk music group based in Toronto, Ontario. The group, consisting of violinists Trent Freeman, Karrnnel Sawitsky and Ben Plotnick, and cellist Eric Wright, won the Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017
Born out of a love for southern soul, blues and roots music and a passion to create a powerful and moving experience for listeners, the 7-piece outfit Bywater Call was formed by singer Meghan Parnell and guitar player Dave Barnes in 2017.
This multi-award-winning, 3x Juno-nominated and Billboard charting band creates “energetic and exciting music from a band with talent to burn!” For more than a decade, Sultans of String have thrilled audiences with their genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, Flamenco, Django-jazz, Arabic, Cuban and South Asian rhythms.
A Crooner, a fiddler and a piano man, Michael Vanhevel, Mark Payne and Jesse Grandmont, these three dynamite entertainers erupt onto the stage in a variety show full of genre-crossing, foot stomping & finger snapping, complete with their trademark brand of amazing musicianship & hilarious antics.
Is a celebratory tribute to legendary singer/songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot. The show will transport fans back to the 1964-1976 era, when the “Lightfoot Sound” was filling the airwaves. Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Early Morning Rain, and more!
The Steel City Rovers perform dynamic and expressive music that is a unique composite of traditional Celtic music and North American styles including bluegrass, folk and roots. Their original works touch on issues of love, loss, celebration and heritage and they also breathe life into newly-discovered instrumental melodies from as far back as centuries ago.
Her rootsy, guitar driven ballads introduce crucial dimensions to the world of Heartland Rock. In a genre characterized by anthems of the underdog, assumptions and unfair advantages, Rheaume’s sound and story crucially and radically expand the boundaries, geographic and cultural, to make space for new perspectives on resistance and resilience. Rheaume is Metis and her music is indeed from the ... Read More
For over twenty years, the Ennis Sisters have been connecting to audiences across the world. From church halls in outport Newfoundland to performing for International leaders and delegates at the 75th anniversary of D-Day on Juno Beach, their harmonies resonate with us all. Flavoured by Celtic and traditional Newfoundland influences, Maureen, Karen and Teresa are known for their captivating sibling ... Read More
Since their debut, Whitehorse has traveled from magnetic folk duo to full-blown rock band and beyond. In truth Whitehorse is never fully either one or the other, but an ever-evolving creative partnership that challenges both artists, Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet, to explore new instrumental and lyrical terrain with each record. Steamy, swampy and squalling in equal measure, Whitehorse's signature sound ... Read More
Born and raised in Chatham Ontario but now London based, Aaron Allen's music is deeply rooted in the singer-songwriter atmosphere once created by greats like, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen. You can hear the emotion and honesty in the words Aaron puts forth and because of that there’s no denying 4 chords and the truth is still alive and ... Read More