Lomax Project is Mariposa Bound
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Lomax Project is the latest adventure of two-time Juno winning musician, producer, educator and collaborator, Jayme Stone.
Focusing on songs collected by renowned folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this musical reawakening brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, reinvigorate and re-imagine traditional music.
The repertoire includes Bahamian sea chanties, African-American a cappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk ranging from muleskinners, roustabouts, sawyers, and prisoners, to homemakers and schoolchildren.
The exhilarating live show of Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys will enthrall you with engaging, sometimes jaw-dropping, stagecraft and showmanship.
It’s been seven long years since Cheryl Wheeler graced a Mariposa stage, but good things are worth waiting for.
Mariposa Folk Festival is proud to begin its announcements of the 2015 artistic line-up with the good news that folk music icon, Eric Andersen, will be on stage at the festival this summer.
The Grande Dame of Canadian folk festivals has announced the full, fantastic line-up for the 54th annual event taking place July 4-5-6, 2014, at Tudhope Park in Orillia, Ontario, Canada.
Lead singer and founding member of platinum-selling Prairie Oyster, Russell deCarle has earned many awards over the course of an illustrious musical career.
Magoo is a colourful character.
For singer-songwriter, visual artist and writer, Carolle Bertrand, singing is the art at the foundation of all other forms of expression.
Montreal-based AroarA is a creative duo that amplifies cigar box guitars, uses a 404 sampler to trigger mellotrons and black sabbath bells, blends voices, and plays twin guitar lines.
AVIVA’s soulful vocals and passionate voice blur the lines between the sacred and the secular.
This contemporary folk duo from Los Angeles sports a fresh sound with beautifully harmonized vocals, Acoustic roots group, My Sweet Patootie, brings twining vocal harmonies, monstrous finger style guitar, fiddle, percussion and abundant charisma together in one perfect package.
Sharing the rich Andean sounds of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, The Imbayakunas infuse traditional music with Latin and European influences, playing ancestral instruments ranging from rondador and other pan flutes, to charango and ronrocco (similar to a lute), and cajas (type of drum).
Experiencing a Pacific Curls performance has been described as putting your finger on the pulse of a global sound.
Havana-based Son band, Conjunto Chappottín, has been performing since the 1940s.
After a decade of criss-crossing North America with their Boston-based improvisational rock trio, a fire in a Montréal club proved providential, leading Andrew and Brad Barr in a new musical direction.
Smiles ignite, toes tap and hips swivel when Franco-Ontarian sister group, Ariko, reaches into its quiver of tunes.
Making a live appearance to launch an album on the Sirius FM show hosted by celebrated American rock writer, Dave Marsh, is a coup for any singer-songwriter.
Best described as a modern day renaissance woman, Sarah Slean has made eight albums, starred in short films and a movie musical, published two volumes of poetry, held exhibitions of her paintings, written two string quartets, and shared the stage with leading orchestras.
Independent artist, JoJo Worthington, is a folk-pop-electro-jazz singer-songwriter who’s making a big impression with her original, catchy tunes.
Playing tunes in the Zydeco, Cajun, and Americana style, Zydeco Loco reaches deep into the rich musical traditions of the Louisiana bayou for inspiration.