Canadian Country Music Week
SiriusXM Top of the Country 2020 Semi-Finalist Showcase Review
September 26th, 2020 by Joshua Murray and 📸 Trish CasslingThere’s a lot of emerging country music talent in Canada, which makes the SiriusXM Top of the Country contest an impressive campaign in a couple of ways. 1) It’s impressive that the committee in charge of making the decisions from the initial submissions is able to whittle the list down to eight semi-finalists. 2) None […]
2018 Canadian Country Music Association Awards Winners and Recap!
September 10th, 2018 by Joshua MurrayThe Canadian Country Music Association Awards took over Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre on Sunday night for a celebration of excellence. From start to finish the night’s show put a bright spotlight on the outstanding talent in the genre, but it shined especially bright on the women of Canadian country music. From the opening moments of the […]
Universal Music Canada CCMA Showcase with The Reklaws, Jade Eagleson, East Adelaide & Emily Reid
September 10th, 2018 by Joshua MurrayCanadian Country Music Week 2018 offered a lot of great music for fans in Hamilton, ON – including awesome showcases on stage at the CCMA Fan Village. On Saturday afternoon we all got a treat as Universal Music Canada brought some of their great country music talent to the stage to play for the assembled […]
SiriusXM and Canadian Country Music Association Announce Top of the Country Contest
February 13th, 2018 by Joshua MurraySiriusXM and the Canadian Country Music Association are ready to give emerging country artists from coast-to-coast a chance to make it big with the announcement and launch of Top of the Country! The contest, sponsored by the country’s leading audio entertainment company, has some amazing and invaluable prizes available up for grabs, including $25,000 and […]
Blame It On The Neon: Leaving Thomas at Boots & Hearts 2017
August 12th, 2017 by Joshua MurrayWe’ve said it before, playing the opening slot of the day on the main stage at a festival isn’t easy. You’ve got to set the tone, get people engaged, pull them into the crowd… and Leaving Thomas did all of that on Friday at Boots & Hearts 2017. Annika and Bryton hopped up on the […]
On Me: Andrew Hyatt at Boots & Hearts 2017
August 12th, 2017 by Joshua MurrayRain was falling on the Friday afternoon crowd at Boots & Hearts 2017… and then it cleared and the sun came out as Andrew Hyatt and his band, The Good Intentions, took over the Front Porch stage and played their hearts out. We caught up with Andrew after his set, and we talked about the […]
Both Sides Of The Bar: Jojo Mason Album Review
June 9th, 2017 by Joshua MurrayJojo Mason exudes the kind of energy that most of us wish we could summon on demand… and that all of us would benefit from having around us all the time. And there may be no better representation of that energy, and the love that pours out of this dude, than his brand new album, […]
5 Quick Questions with Beamer Wigley
January 22nd, 2017 by Joshua MurrayBack in September 2016 we had the chance to catch up with teenage up-and-comer, Beamer Wigley during Canadian Country Music Week – and we took the chance to get him to answer our 5 quick questions. Check ’em out and keep an eye open for Beamer, he’s coming hard! Q1: If you’re in the car […]
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