Awards, awards, awards
* Edmonton’s Lizzy Hoyt and Rebecca Lappa are two of the Alberta artists nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards. Hoyt is up for Traditional Singer of the Year. Lappa, 14, and Rocky Mountain House’s...
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Wonderteen Rebecca Lappa and roving troubadour Scott Cook are nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards. Lappa is up for Young Performer of the Year for her fourth and latest offering, Ode to Tennyson....
View ArticleCanadian Folk Music Awards nominees announced
The nominees for the 11th annual Canadian Folk Music Awards were announced this afternoon at City Hall, and three Edmontonians are among the 73 artists up for 19 different awards. Local artists Laura...
View ArticleStill friends after 10 years of performing together
The duo named Dala is back. It has been three years since the Toronto folk-pop vocal collaborators released their last album Best Day and a couple of years since they did extensive touring. But Sheila...
View ArticleDirt City Limits 22: Let's talk folk
Boasting many other identifiers, Edmonton is a folk music city. Our fest on the hill is legendary among musicians around the world. There’s an unstoppable volcano of singer-songwriter talent bubbling...
View ArticleEdmonton ranks highly among the folk capitals of Canada
It’s time to pay tribute to the folks who make folk music. For 11 years, the Canadian Folk Music Awards have been working to bring wider attention to that soft-spoken but proud niche known as folk or...
View ArticleCanadian folk music by-the-numbers
11: years since the Canadian Folk Music Awards were founded 19: award categories, including best traditional and contemporary albums and singers, children’s and instrumental albums, English, French and...
View ArticleEdmonton-hosted Canadian Folk Music Awards produce one local winner
Eighteen-year-old singer-songwriter Rebecca Lappa was the lone local artist to take home hardware on Sunday night as Edmonton was host to the Canadian Folk Music Awards for the first time since 2006....
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