Articles by Kristin Cavoukian

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  Fish & Bird

  Something in the Ether

  PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2014

  Taylor Ashton and Adam Iredale-Gray, the pair behind Fish and Bird, aren't your average fiddle-and-banjo duo, and they certainly don't serv...

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  Steph Cameron

  Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2014

  Steph Cameron is a classic travelling troubadour, a singer, guitar player and songwriter. Based in BC, Cameron has hitchhiked and busked he...

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  Slight Birching

  Cultural Envelope

  PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2014

  Sometimes melancholy can be a playful affair. Slight Birching, also known as Vancouver's Sean Travis Ramsay, wrote the songs for this album...

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  All Day Breakfast Stringband

  Shanghai

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2014

  Shanghai is the first full-length offering by the All Day Breakfast Stringband, an Appalachian-style old-time band from Montreal whose memb...

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  Sean Watkins

  All I Do Is Lie

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2014

  Sean Watkins, of Nickel Creek fame, is a busy man these days. In addition to that band's latest offering, Watkins has just put out his four...

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  Corb Lund

  Counterfeit Blues

  PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2014

  Corb Lund might just be Alberta's best export since k.d. Lang. Lund's unpretentious country music has been topping charts and stealing hea...

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  Sassparilla

  Pasajero/Hullabaloo

  PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2014

  If, as the theme song to the TV show Portlandia claims, "The dream of the '90s is alive in Portland," the new double-album by Portland band...

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  Melissa Payne

  High and Dry

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2014

  In a sea of pretty female singer-songwriter voices, Melissa Payne's stands out: part velvet, part gravel and bursting at the seams. But bey...