Deborah Holland

The Unfaithful Servants

October 11, 2024

Roberts Creek Legion, Roberts Creek BC

Posted to https://www.rootsmusic.ca/

They must be putting something in the water on Vancouver Island because the number of great bands, musicians, and singer-songwriters originating from, and/or based on…

From my notes the evening of October 15th somewhere during the second set of Pierre Schryer (fiddle) and Adam Dobres (guitar) I wrote:
“This is music that makes you feel glad you’re alive.”

In the beautiful, hallowed halls of a…

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The Night Before Day 1 of the 2019 Vancouver Folk Festival

It just took me two and a half hours to work out a schedule so I can see all the artists I want to see.

10,000 steps? Hah! No…

This was supposed to be five acts, but even getting it down to seven was difficult. However, since I started with 18, I feel pretty good about seven.

First of all, kudos to artistic director Debbi Lynn Salmonsen for bringing…

I start this with a disclaimer. I know Shari Ulrich. I adore Shari Ulrich. We are kindred spirits in many ways. And though I haven’t known her for that long, I feel like I’ve known her forever. I suspect many…

When Heather Kitching of Roots Music Canada asked me if I wanted to review Donovan Woods’ new album, The Other Way (Meant Well Records), an acoustic rendering of his 2018 Both Ways, my first response was, “no.” What more could…

If the world was fair and just Suzie Vinnick would not be a “Canadian treasure.” She would not be known for winning the Canadian Maple Blues Award ten times, or for receiving dozens of other Canadian music nominations and awards…

Only once in my life did I vote for a U.S. president that won. Not once have I ever voted for any record to win “best something” and seen that album win. Until this year. The album in question was …