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The Dust Collectors
Folk

Five Minutes With: Calgary Alternative Folk Band The Dust Collectors

May 10, 2024 Demian Vernieri

The Dust Collectors are an alternative folk band from Calgary, Alberta. After years of playing separately in different bands, these long-time friends quickly moved from garage jams to song-writing. By Winter 2018, they were recording […]

Maclayne
Folk

Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk-Pop Singer-Songwriter Maclayne

May 3, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Maclayne is a singer-songwriter artist based out of Calgary, Alberta. With a style often compared to artists like Sara Bareilles, Olivia Rodrigo and Regina Spektor, her brand of folk-pop is authentically quirky and theatrical, featuring […]

Kris Demeanor
Folk

Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk Singer-Songwriter Kris Demeanor

April 26, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Kris Demeanor is a Mohkinstis (Calgary) based singer-songwriter, theatre and film actor, and was the first poet laureate of Calgary. He likes racquet sports, cooking, and biodiversity. Name: Kris Demeanor Genre: Folk Founded: 1992 # of […]

Mike Clark
Blues

Five Minutes With: Calgary Blues/Roots Musician Mike Clark

April 19, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Alberta-based songwriter, recording artist and producer Mike Clark is a staple on the music scene in his home province and across Canada, as well as internationally as a horn section member of Tommy Castro’s Revue […]

Jacquie Drew
Folk

Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk-Roots Musician Jacquie Drew

April 12, 2024 Demian Vernieri

If ever you imagined a musical artist who could cover your favourite love song as she wrote it herself, stage a spontaneous outdoor jam to bring your whole neighbourhood together, and then rock out a […]

Lucky Sonne
Country

Five Minutes With: Calgary Alternetive Country Band Lucky Sonne

April 5, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Formed in friendship and on sacred creative common ground in 2006, Lucky Sonne (the core) is Luke Colborne (chief songwriter/guitar/lead vocals) and Arran Fisher (uber-producer/engineer/mixer and percussionist). Presently, Lucky Sonne is a quietly revered and […]

Bella White
Folk

Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk Singer Bella White

March 29, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Bella White, a Calgary native, was immersed in the world of Appalachian folk, country, and bluegrass from a young age, thanks to her father—a native Virginia banjoist. Her musical journey began early, writing her first […]

Royal Tusk
Music

Five Minutes With: Sandy MacKinnon of Rock Trio Royal Tusk

March 22, 2024 Emilea Semancik

Royal Tusk, the Alberta, Canada trio—Daniel Carriere (vocals), Quinn Cyrankiewicz (guitar), and Sandy MacKinnon (bass)—carves its own path with a unique blend of hypnotic hooks, hard-hitting riffs, untethered rhythms, and honest lyrics. Their upcoming 2024 […]

Natural Twenty
Funk / Soul / RnB

Five Minutes With: Calgary Funk Band Natural Twenty

March 15, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Natural Twenty is the urban, cosmopolitan Funk, Jazz, Soul, R&B band hailing in Calgary, AB. They are influenced by such acts as Anderson Paak, Tom Misch, Hiatus Kaiyote, and Snarky Puppy and have been compared […]

Megan Dawson
Country

Five Minutes With: Calgary Pop Country Artist Megan Dawson

March 8, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Megan Dawson is an award-winning country/pop artist and songwriter from Calgary, AB. Megan was named Country Music Alberta’s Horizon Female Artist of the Year in 2023. Megan has gained over 2 million collective streams on […]

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