Playlist Friday: CBC Searchlight 2017 Round 2
By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday this week is all about Round 2 of Searchlight. All the artists on the playlist successfully made it past Round 1 and are region finalists. The voting for round 2 [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Longlist Playlist
By Darlene Barss The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours and rewards artists who produce Canadian music albums of distinction. A select panel of music critics judge and award the Prize [...]
Playlist Friday: CBC Searchlight 2017 Round 1
By Darlene Barss CBC Searchlight, CBC Music's nationwide search for the best up-and-coming musicians across Canada returns for its fifth year. As in 2016, the top 4 finalists will vie for the grand prize on [...]
Playlist Friday: Nuances of Nova Scotia
By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday brings us the Nuances of Nova Scotia playlist. It seems to be another province with a hotbed of talent in it. For a small province I sure ended up with [...]
Playlist Friday: Hearts and Love
By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday’s theme is full of Hearts and Love in time for the upcoming Valentine’s Day. There are songs of Red Hearts, Stained Glass Hearts, Paper Hearts, broken Hearts and songs of [...]
Playlist Friday: Black History Month in Canada
By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday this week is to honour Black History Month with the focus being on black musicians of Canada and the music they make. Our playlist has a couple of musicians from [...]
Playlist Friday: Stream of Thought January 2017
By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday brings us another Stream of Thought playlist. It is 3 hours of fairly recently released music from Canadian Indie artists. The titles of those songs then became a story. Sort [...]
Winterruption 2017 Saskatchewan Playlist
By Darlene Barss Winterruption 2017 Saskatchewan is the focus of our playlist today. It includes music of most of the artists playing January 19 - January 22 in Regina and Saskatoon. Regina Folk Festival have [...]
Playlist Friday: New Brunswick Notes
By Darlene Barss It is Playlist Friday and the province of New Brunswick is the focus of our playlist this week. I thought about making it an East Coast playlist but there was just far [...]
100 Canadian Indie Artists of 2016
By Darlene Barss I struggled with what to call this list. It isn't exactly top 100 because I limited it to one song per artist. It isn't my favourites though it is strongly biased to [...]