Artist Pages (below)
Browse my links to the homepages of Canada's leading folk artists including Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Stan and Garnet Rogers.

Borealis Records
Label exclusively for Canadian folk artists, including Grit Laskin, Eileen McGann, Tanglefoot, J.P. Cormier, Jackie Washington and many more.

Canadian Folk Music Bulletin
Publication helps you keep tabs on Canadian artists and events. Includes reviews.

Canadian Folk Festival Slide Show
Mary Joy Aitken has created a neat slide show culled from several festivals, complete with Indigo Girls background music. A fun way to get away for a few minutes.

CanEHdian.com - Folk Music Site
This About-style guide site offers a lot of links, articles and info.

Festival.bc
A good source of Canadian folk music unavailable from US distributors.

Georgian Bay Folk Society
Hosts of the beloved Summerfest at Owen Sound on Lake Huron, late August.

Great North Wind
Home of the Porcupine Awards, Canadian Fiddle Albums, Stevedore Steve, Mac Beattie & The Ottawa Valley Melodiers, The Northern Ontario Blues: Music of Northern Ontario and more. Interesting links.

Juno Awards
Imagine the U.S. music industry's Grammies - except with integrity.

Maple Folk
Detailed, non-evaluative profiles of Canadian folk CD releases, with links to artist pages and sound samples.

Mars Subway Canadian Music Home Page
Canadian Artists Index. Many hundreds of artists listed - Not all are folk and there are links to only a fraction of those listed - still, the variety and depth of the Canadian scene is impressive.

North By Northeast
(NXNE) A five day music festival and conference held in June in Toronto, featuring over 400 bands in all genres at 30 clubs.

Northern Journey Online
The whole package for Canadian folk music. Excellent information site.

Ontario Council of Folk Festivals
Ontario is home to over twenty folk festivals, including Owen Sound's Summerfolk and the Mariposa Festival in Toronto. The council is an outstanding arts advocate.

UFOJOE
Info on 50 Canadian festivals.

Songwriters Association of Canada
Songwriter's Association of Canada is an organization for professional and amateur songwriters.

Sound Bytes - folk music resource, CD reviews.

Victoria Folk Music Society
Top of information about events in and around Victoria. Elegant site.

Vital Spark Folk Club
, Whitby Ontario Excellent concert series. Also a good place to link to the many major Canadian artists they've hosted, including Stephen Fearing, Eileen McGann, James Keelaghan.

Artist Pages

Arrogant Worms
A Canadian trio making fringe folk and musical comedy - often with a political twist.

Bowen, Peter.

Browne, Michael Jerome
Excellent, authentic roots & electric blues.

Cockburn, Bruce
Peerless musician and poetical songwiter - often political, lately tendentious. His early material is widely considered great, blending spiritual awareness, social protest and a playful sense of humor.

Cockburn, Bruce - Artist Profile
Our Canadian Music Guide offers a full profile on this outstanding Canadian performer.

Cohen, Leonard
The Leonard Cohen Files. Ultimate fansite for disciples of the master - perhaps too fawning, but then, what could be too much praise? Has everything and is beautiful besides. A mirror site appears to be here.

Eaglesmith, Fred
Popular rootsy songwriter. If you like cars, trains, cars, trains and girls, Fred's your man. His band, the Flying Squirrels, rocks.

Fearing, Stephen
A world-class songwriter, and one of the best to come out of Canada. He has a highly praised new album. Site has expanded, but unfortunately still no sound clips of this hard to find guy.

Ferron
Ferron is one of the finest of today's poet songwriters. Her imagistic studies of love and politics are delivered in a flat, nasal but strangely compelling voice. Unforgettable.

Half the Sky
Six-piece band combines lite folk with a touch of Celtic influence.

Holmes, Derek. Yukon singer-songwriter. Download mp3s from his first album.

Keelaghan, James
Popular singer-songwriter with several fine songs including "Cold Missouri Waters," the standout track on the Cry, Cry, Cry CD. No sound clips here.

Lightfoot, Gordon
In his heyday during the 70s, Lightfoot produced a number of classics including "Early Morning Rain," "If You Could Read My Mind" and "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

McGann, Eileen
Wonderful singer and interpreter of traditional music. Also writes, and is known for environmental songs.

McKennitt, Loreena
Canadian classically trained harpist & chanteuse, songwriter and scholar of traditional music from around the world. That she has gained an international reputation is miraculously just. Her official site.

MacMaster, Natalie
Virtuoso Celtic fiddler, stepdancer, and dynamic performer combines classical and more modern influences. Flawless.

Mr.Mole
Offbeat, upbeat trio draws on blues, country, rock, bluegrass and folk. Excellent site, but no sound clips.

Mitchell, Joni
Mitchell's official site is very slick, but also excellent, with lyrics, articles, & sounds.

Moxy Früvous
The music of this highly original, musically eclectic group ranges from silly to extremely clever. Outstanding performers, you can't help feeling good at one of their shows.

Poem de Terre- band.

Rawlins Cross
With members hailing from 4 provinces of eastern Canada, this genre-bending group adds a Celtic touch to anything they do.

Rogers, Garnet
Brother of Stan, Garnet has the same great baritone voice plus virtuosity on the guitar. He's a popular performer on the Canadian/U.S. circuit.

Rogers, Stan
Here's his new homepage, including an extensive collection of lyrics and chords.

Don Ross
Monster guitarist and a scholar of traditional tunes and songs.

Siberry, Jane
Not exactly folk but a truly innovative songwriter who, with performance artists like Laurie Anderson, experiment with the medium of music and recording.

Tanglefoot
Energetic 5-piece Ontario string band.

Taxi Chain
Roots band blends original songs, bagpipe riffs & tunes, American funk & blues, and Celtic reels. Led by former Rare Air piper Grier Coppins.

Tyson, Sylvia
Ian & Sylvia were there at the beginning of the folk revival, writing and recording some of the great songs that made folk fans of us all.

Willard. Vernon, BC. Singer-songwriter easy listening/country/folk/blues.