No Need to Shush, This Music is Just Fine in the Ottawa Library

 There’s a lot you can snag from the stacks of the Ottawa Public Library. Bookworms, of course, have an endless supply but there’s also flicks for the cinephile, games for the gamer and CDs for the music lover. But what if you want to make music as much as you

Amazing Week For Canadian Music? JUNO-it!

 Photos by Kamara Morozuk What a great time to be a music fan in Canada’s capital, eh?  You could have thrown a Timbit in any direction and hit a musician as Ottawa became music city in the days leading up to the 2017 Juno Awards! Was that The Strumbella’s playing

JUNO Spotlight: Heather Rankin

 Nominated for: 2017 | Adult Contemporary Album of the Year (A Fine Line)   What is it like growing up in one of Canada’s most beloved musical families? Well, if you’re Heather Rankin you sum things up nicely with the word “chaotic”. Born the eleventh child in an already musical

Plans of His Own – The Gordon Lightfoot Interview – Part 1

 Listen to part one of our interview with Gordon Lightfoot above. The singer lay silenced, his synapses struggling for some light within the darkness of the coma that had muted his voice. An eye flutter here, a possible movement there but the man who’s music meant much to many, a

Honey & Rust

 Photo by Toni van Eeden. Before she learned to talk Johanne Beattie was sharing songs. She’d sit in her bike-seat humming gibberish melodies as her mother rode through town. At seven she was reluctantly enrolled in piano lessons. As it was with her singing, her mother saw a natural gift in