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New Country Rehab (Toronto, ON)
Indie outlaw Country
"...it’s the way fiddle and harmonies take us back to the past, but modern guitars and pedals still explode into huge choruses that jump start the songs..."
The Breakmen (BC/ON)
Roots Rock
"a sharply focused roots music outfit that owes as much to The Band and Blue Rodeo as it does to John Hartford and Bill Monroe."
Morgan O'Kane (Brooklyn, NY)
Appalachian / Punk Banjo virtuoso
"...a high-intensity musician who looks like a mechanic in a rural gas station, sings like a man possessed and plays mountain music like it was an avalanche."
Sam Doores & The Tumbleweeds (New Orleans, LA)
Honky Tonkin Rock N Roll Soul
"Five really young men from New Orleans who play and write like
five really old men from Tennessee"
The Mag 7's (Winnipeg, MB)
Punk Bluegrass
"combining traditional bluegrass with a sense of modern mayhem"Punk Bluegrass
The Crooked Brothers (Winnipeg, MB)
Samantha Martin & The Haggard (Toronto, ON)
"Blessed with a powerful voice at full tilt that can shake the back wall of any club she plays"
Country classic sounds, back porch blues and stomping scrap yard funk
Timeless country classic sounds, back porch blues and stomping scrap yard funkSamantha Martin & The Haggard (Toronto, ON)
Hard-driving country and blues-influenced music
Spirit Family Reunion (Brooklyn, NY)
"the type of music that blurs the line between past and present so thoroughly, and so deftly, that time feels irrelevant"The D Rangers (Winnipeg, MB)
Mutant Bluegrass
"Its good to know there are still punks picking up banjo's and mandolins" No Depression
Jackpine (Winnipeg, MB)
Jackpine (Winnipeg, MB)