Articles by Kerry Doole

Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Downey to Lubbock

PUBLISHED May 31, 2018

Few current singer-songwriters can boast the long and illustrious pedigrees of Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Each were members of leg...

Dana Sipos

Trick of the Light

PUBLISHED May 30, 2018

This Toronto-based singer-songwriter's previous album, 2015's Roll Up the Night Sky, was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in the c...

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers

Years

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2018

North Carolina-based honky-tonker Sarah Shook formed the Disarmers five years ago and made a splash with 2015 debut Sidelong. Look for more...

Sue Foley

The Ice Queen

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2018

This Ottawa-based blues guitarist and singer has been under-appreciated on the Canadian scene, though she did win a Juno in 2001 for Love C...

Marlon Williams

Make Way For Love

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2018

Like his friend, compatriot and occasional collaborator Tami Neilson, New Zealand troubadour Williams is a shape-shifting musical chameleon...

Marlon Williams Leads Emerging New Zealand Scene with Breakup Album 'Make Way For Love'

PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2018

There is nothing like some personal trauma to fuel the muse of a songwriter. Acclaimed New Zealand troubadour Marlon Williams can attest to...

The Fugitives

The Promise of Strangers

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2018

This combo has created quite a splash on the folk scene in Canada and beyond in recent years, making the folk charts, touring with Buffy Sa...

Collette Savard & the Savants

Collette Savard & the Savants

PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2018

Toronto-based singer-songwriter Savard has released three folk-rooted albums with former partner John Zytaruk, but is now stretching out mu...