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Alternative Folk Artist the last optimist Uses Music As a Tool For Awakening

"This has been a year of alchemy. Turning challenging times into poetry, poetry into song verse, guitar plucking into orchestration, and hard experience into resilience. 'Seed Water Sun' is the soundtrack for that rough ride of human experience in 2023 with moments of rage and sadness resolved by the salve, the antidote, and the solace that we are all searching for."

Indigenous Singer Songwriter Auroara Leigh Empowers with New Single “Emergence”

Indigenous Singer Songwriter Auroara Leigh Empowers with New Single “Emergence” Indigenous Singer Songwriter Auroara Leigh releases an empowering burst of energy on her powerful new release “Emergence”. About the spirited single and it’s deeply human themes, Auroara Leigh says “Emergence is about allowing yourself to be true to your own story of self, more than the projections from others about...

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Black Dog String Quartet Deliver Chamber Pop and Classical Music Brilliance

Black Dog String Quartet Deliver Chamber Pop and Classical Music Brilliance Chamber pop and classical music enthusiasts will find much to love in this new release from Canadian music collective Black Dog String Quartet. Vancouver’s Black Dog String Quartet showcase a hybrid of stylistic and thematic approaches rich with meaning on ‘deeply personal’ new album “A Thousand Times Brighter”,...

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Singer Songwriter Kate Fenner Sings to Danger on Existential Masterwork “Dead Reckoning”

Singer Songwriter Kate Fenner Sings to Danger on Existential Masterwork “Dead Reckoning” Canadian Singer Songwriter and lionhearted truth teller Kate Fenner‘s new album “Dead Reckoning” carries the existential weight of life, death and shared trauma on it’s shoulders, and as such becomes a challenge to sum up in words. It’s the palpable and unprecedented depth of the...

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Folk Punk Rebels Erik & The Worldly Savages Premiere “Burn My Life” Music Video

Folk Punk Rebels Erik & The Worldly Savages Premiere “Burn My Life” Music Video Folk Punk Musician Erik Mut is a man on a mission, having broken the shackles of Western society and trailblazed his own path of rebellion, adventure, leadership and musical passion. His powerful Folk Punk project Erik & the Worldly Savages musically and lyrically reflects...

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Patrick Ames Conjures Practical Magic on Profound New Album “Harmonium”

Patrick Ames Conjures Practical Magic on Profound New Album “Harmonium” Singer Songwriter Patrick Ames is no stranger to profound lyricism and arresting emotion in his stripped-down musical offerings, and new album “Harmonium” is undoubtedly his most powerful and life-affirming collection to date. “Harmonium” is a lean, 7-track album deceptively heavy on raw, beautiful expression of the human experience. Patrick’s poetic, intuitive...

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Folk Singer Songwriter Stevie Cornell Is Hopeful and Reflective on New Self-Titled Album

Folk Singer Songwriter Stevie Cornell Is Hopeful and Reflective on New Self-Titled Album Californian Folk Singer Songwriter Stevie Cornell has announced the release of new Self-Titled album, out March 25, 2022 via his label imprint Sonoma-Sonic Records. Stevie Cornell‘s music captures an unrestrained sense of wonder and hope, maintaining an indomitable musical warmth throughout. Cornell’s poignant lyricism couples heartbreak and...

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Patrick Ames Evolves Lyrically Potent Blues, Funk, Soul and Folk Sound on “The Virtualistics” Album

Patrick Ames Evolves Lyrically Potent Blues, Funk, Soul and Folk Sound on “The Virtualistics” Album Composer and writer Patrick Ames continues to evolve his lyrically potent signature cocktail of junkyard blues on the new album, “The Virtualistics.” due for release June 16th. The album contains 8 songs written during the pandemic by the Napa Valley-based artist, each...

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Langley-based The Cole Patenaude Band deliver Big Blues, Folk, Country, Pop and Rock on New “Are You Happy Now?” Album

Langley-based The Cole Patenaude Band deliver Big Blues, Folk, Country, Pop and Rock on New “Are You Happy Now?” Album Langley-based band The Cole Patenaude Band deliver bold, electric, revelatory blues alongside soulful folk, country, pop and rock sounds on latest full-length album “Are You Happy Now?”, due for release July 24, 2020. TCPB’s signature sound is all authenticity and...

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SF Bay Folk Singer Songwriter Patrick Ames Releases Revitalizing, Politically Charged “Reawakened 2020” Single

SF Bay Folk Singer Songwriter Patrick Ames Releases Revitalizing, Politically Charged “Reawakened 2020” Single SF Bay Folk Singer Songwriter Patrick Ames is releasing his new single “Reawakened 2020“ on June 19, 2020. Hot off the heels of his “Liveness” EP, Patrick brings us a song for the times with “Reawakened 2020”. Patrick will also be donating his Bandcamp proceeds from this...

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The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed. Patrick Ames Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron With New “BANG BANG BANG” Single, “Liveness” EP

The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed. Patrick Ames Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron With New “BANG BANG BANG” Single, “Liveness” EP Californian Singer Songwriter Patrick Ames leans into his eccentric style, troubador wisdom and black humor on his best release to date, new 6-track EP Liveness. If you’re a fan of artists like Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen or...

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EllaHarp Screaming Into the Void

EllaHarp Proves the Harp is Mightier Than the Sword on Monolithic New Folk Single ‘Screaming Into The Void’

EllaHarp Proves the Harp is Mightier Than the Sword on Monolithic New Folk Single ‘Screaming Into the Void’ We’re very pleased to introduce a compelling young San Francisco Bay based folk/pop artist whose songs and lyrics loom large. EllaHarp, solo moniker of singer songwriter Ella Dawn Jenkins, writes powerful, universal stories that prove the harp may...

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