Northern Lights Folk Club
Valdy is one of Canada's trusted spokespersons, and a well seasoned performer. Nearly 37 years of relentless concert touring means Valdy knows how to entertain; tailoring each of his shows, as many as 200 a year, to suit his audience. His guitar playing seems effortless, masking an underlying musical complexity that accompanies his distinctive voice as […]
Roy Forbes is part of the generation that came of age in the late '60s, early '70s, that refashioned popular music. Today, Roy is at the top of his game and able to hold a crowd spellbound. As a songwriter, Roy crafts brilliant stories that can be told in under five minutes. As an interpreter, Roy has […]
Connie Kaldor is one of Canada’s finest songwriters. She has toured the world, won Junos, a Western Literature Award, and is a member of the Order of Canada. She has done it all as an independent – writing, singing and performing. She is the author of 3 award winning children’s books, has written musicals and music for […]
Canada’s roots/swing duo Over the Moon is made up of award winning vocal and multi-instrumentalists Suzanne Levesque and Craig Bignell. Their first album, Moondancer, was released in 2017 and reflects the beautiful two-part harmony along with the wide array of acoustic instruments they play. Most of the songs are original and tell stories of life lived in Southern Alberta’s […]
Marriage, fatherhood, and a solid music career could have engendered complacency; instead T. Buckley investigates these transformations from the older, wiser position he now occupies. His 2018 album, Miles We Put Behind, was a collection of mature, introspective songs, interrogating what it means to be a husband, father, and most importantly, a keen observer of the world […]
A Saskatoon native transplanted to the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada, Suzie Vinnick is the proud owner of a gorgeous voice, prodigious guitar and bass chops, and an engagingly candid performance style. Suzie has won 10 Maple Blues Awards, 1 Canadian Folk Music Award and is a 3x Juno Nominee. She has also twice won the International […]
This concert will be a celebration of Rob Heath’s new album, Biggest Moments. Edmonton based singer/songwriter Rob Heath is first and foremost a storyteller. He has a keen eye for observance of the human condition and an ardent ear for putting it all to music. The quality of Rob’s songwriting has been widely recognized. Over the years […]
A co-presentation with Winter Roots Roundup (U of A Sound Studies), the Women of Folkways concert is a celebration by women of women in the Folkways Records catalogue. In 2021, we saw these performers virtually from around North America, now we will see them on the same stage, sharing their harmonies and instrumentation. Join Shawna Caspi, Maria Dunn, Linda McRae, […]
Formerly known as Oh Susanna, Suzie Ungerleider has evolved from an artist who wrote melodies inspired by Americana, to writing songs that allow her to look closely at who she was before she took on that persona. Suzie now realizes that the character who gave her the courage to climb onstage and reveal what is in her heart […]
Pretty Archie is a Canadiana band hailing from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. These long-time friends perform a genre-bending mix of folk, bluegrass, country, rock and vintage soul, underpinned by East Coast roots, that is absolutely impossible to pigeonhole. Their heartfelt writing is populated by characters every listener will recognize from their own lives with almost photographic precision. With […]
Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters…and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd […]