Podcast
Noah Franche-Nolan: Piano, Within the Stream, New York
Noah talks about his debut as a leader: a piano trio album to be released on Cellar Music
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Live music
Tanika Charles plays the Shadbolt with a band of locals
Despite her Edmonton / Toronto roots, the vocalist's band is "the Vancouver boys"
Subscriber Fridays
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival looks at dissolving
The 2023 festival is canceled, and the non-profit is thinking to dissolve for good.
Heyday: RJ LeBlanc's fusion of math rock, shoegaze, and groove
Montréal bassist Rémi-Jean LeBlanc's fun fourth album, Heyday, does jazz and indie rock
Subscriber Fridays
A complete guide to my FACTOR Artist Development grants
Here's my guide to both grants I wrote and received, now that they're fully complete
Subscriber Fridays
CD Baby, what are you thinking? Re: DIY Musician Podcast
All 5 of the DIY Musician Podcast 2023 predictions are misses; also, I make a prediction
2022 wrap-up: reaching 10,000+ people with the gig list
Big thanks to Rory Hislop, Tim Reinert, Nou Dadoun, and everyone who made it possible
Podcast
Ben Frost: Trumpet, Quartet, Pixies, Copyist, Climbing
Ben talks about his quartet album Pixies, released exclusively to Bandcamp on Dec. 2
Harry Bartlett taught me something about Charlie Haden
Review by Chris Fraser of BC/Toronto guitarist Bartlett's second trio album, Wildwood
Subscriber Fridays
Top 10 subscriber articles of 2022: gig recaps & launches
Is it fun and insightful? Can't get it anywhere else? Does it bring you local artists?
Live music
A jazz jam session for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank
The Infidels Jazz and Coastal Jazz will co-present a fundraiser for the local charity
Live music
Table for six, please
From a gig, a story about "online presence": a term that sanitizes the concept to death