Sunday, July 27, 2014 Workshop: Marmalade Skies (Lake Stage, 11AM) The Hillside Sunday Gospel Session has the power to make even the staunchest non-believers believe in something, anything. This year’s country-blues lineup of Elephant Revival, Red Moon Road, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, and Spirit Family Reunion was hard to pass up, but we instead […]

Saturday, July 5, 2014 Caitlin Rose (South Stage, 1:10PM) Day 2 of the festival began early in the afternoon, with Caitlin Rose on the South Stage. Boasting a voice more massive than you’d initially expect, a typical country starlet Rose is not. The Nashville native spun tenderhearted Opry-worthy ballads doused in the whiskey and cigarette […]

Hey Rosetta! – 2:40 @ Scène de la Rivière We started off our Day 2 with Hey Rosetta!, a band we were really looking forward to seeing. We’re no stranger to this Newfoundland band’s penchant for epic build-ups and strong yet wholesome stage presence. Tim Baker’s vocals draw the audience in, but it is the […]

Date of show: February 23, 2010 Having just released Seeds, Newfoundland-based Hey Rosetta! sold out two nights in a row at Lee’s Palace. This band just continues to pick up speed as their fanbase just grows and grows. Seeds also marks growth for the band, as the orchestration sounds bigger and bolder, which only multiplies […]

Date of show: October 9, 2010 Steve Bays (vocals, keys) declared, “I like to play rock and roll music.” Bays certainly knows his role as frontman, as he really plays to the crowd, especially those right up front. The rest of the British Columbia’s Hot Hot Heat consists of Paul Hawley (drums), Luke Paquin (guitar) […]

  None of us could stop at 10 favourite Canadian voices. Trying to keep it as close to 10 as possible, here’s what we came up with. Amanda – Top 12 (in no particular order): Bryan Webb (Constantines) → her vote for #1 Sam Roberts Jenn Grant Hannah Georgas Tim Baker (Hey Rosetta!) Dan Mangan […]