Feature Stories – Artists


For hit-maker Owen Riegling, it starts with songwriting

Whether solo, with friends, or alongside Nashville pros

Zosha Di Castri’s remarkable breadth and diversity

Composing concert music with its performers in mind

Kym Gouchie’s Shun beh nats’ujeh (We Are Healing Through Songs)

A gift to bring out the child in us all

Donovan Woods reveals the telling details of daily adult life

By embracing contradictions, condensing multitudes

Gala Country 2024: Five New Artists to Watch

Gala takes place Oct. 24 at MTelus in Montréal

Bruce Guthro Songwriters Circle is unbroken after his passing

Thanks to his singer-songwriter children, Dylan and Jodi

Noeline Hofmann storms out of the starting gate

Alberta singer-songwriter fuelled by “Purple Gas”

Goldie Boutilier’s “The Actress”: How the song happened

With a little help from SOCAN’s Liam Russell

Keysha Freshh vulnerable heartbreak album switches it up

Female rapper has men singing the hooks

Kroy: The Need to Suffer

With MILITIA, built over a decade, she steps back to ponder ...

#ComposersWhoScore: Peter Venne’s work on “Hunting Daze”

Applying his creativity to Annick Blanc’s disturbing first...

Blind Ojibway Cree musician Mattmac sets his sights on success

While remaining close to his community

Humble rapper DijahSB builds lifelong career

And makes Polaris Music Prize shortlist for a second time

Adrian Sutherland: Precious Diamonds, Cree Confessions

Balancing big city success with remote First Nations communi...

Jesse Zubot can’t stop scoring

Prolific film composer has five projects coming in 2024

Kayla Diamond starts Kolossal Records

A singer, songwriter, and producer herself, she understands ...

Guessmi and Malko: The Nomad and The Vagabond

Headlining June 20th SOCAN showcase at Rendez-Vous Pros des ...

Abigail Lapell explores lifelong commitments to love, music

“Anniversary” album inspired by recurring events over th...

#ComposersWhoScore : Julien Mineau raises a storm

With original music from the film L’Ouragan F. Y. T

Better Together: Lost and Souldia, a human portrait

“There are too many things that unite us” – Lost

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