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Nobody knows the price he paid
It’s a long road that leads to Bengough, Saskatchewan. Especially if you’re Steve Earle. As good as the line-up for the Regina Folk Festival is this year, The Gateway Festival in Bengough is giving it...
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Steady as you’re gaining speed
It’s ironic that an album that sees Laura Stevenson’s backing band excised from the album cover also has them more integrated into the songs and the songwriting than ever before. I’ve been a huge fan...
View ArticleEyes so soft in a world so hard
Hats off once again to Brock Tyler. The Edmontonian has been a friend of this blog and a friend of a friend for the last several years. Last time we checked in he had just issued an absolutely...
View Article#RFF13 – Keiffer McLean
I interviewed Keiffer last year. He was a very nice young man. It was at a launch event for BreakOut West, the music festival that accompanies the Western Canadian Music Awards every year. I had...
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#RFF13 – Feist
~ Feist from the best angle we could get (Photo by Colleen Book) I had literally no idea what to expect from Feist’s headlining set at the 2013 Regina Folk Festival. The only other time I’ve seen her...
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#RFF13 – Roseanne Cash
Roseanne Cash gives Regina Folk Festival the business (Photo by Colleen Book) It must be hard to be the daughter of a literal legend, especially when you go into the exact same field as your famous...
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Here’s to the losers
Drag The River seems to be pretty comfortable with the fact that they’ll apparently be playing to barely-filled rooms for their career. I previously talked about how excited I was to be seeing the...
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I hope you understand
We all have flaws and shortcomings we often don’t like to admit to ourselves or others. Mine is particularly heinous for someone who writes both for a living and exra-curricularly: I’m a one-draft...
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I don’t have a heart to give
Rae Spoon has every right to be angry. Rae Spoon is not angry. Rae Spoon is a transgendered prairie dweller turned country singer turned international electronic artist turned a combination of all of...
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Come all ye bold Canadians
It makes perfect sense that Geoff Berner would write a book. It makes even more sense that when he did it would turn out to be Festival Man, a delightfully sarcastic, parodic, occasionally rancourous,...
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