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Folk Music Canada Announces Line-up for FolkNorth Export Event 3 Days, 22 Performances, 30 Export Buyers November 30 - December 3, 2016 Toronto, ON

11/24/2016

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(Toronto) As part of its ongoing work to build the Canadian folk music industry, Folk Music Canada is proud to announce its programming for the first edition of FolkNorth, an export-focused showcase event taking place in Toronto from November 30 to December 3, 2016.  

Throughout the three days of showcase presentations, Folk Music Canada will present more than 20 artist performances, including a returning partnership with the English Folk and Dance Song Society entitled Crossing Borders.   This initiative pairs Canadian artists with UK  performers for a collaborative writing retreat, followed by in-the-round style performances.  For the 2016-17 partnership, Crossing Borders will feature Ontario artist Oh Susanna and UK artists Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage.  

With more than 30 delegate ‘buyers’, FolkNorth’s export focus will shine the spotlight on the Canadian folk scene, foster new artistic collaborations and build opportunities for artists to tour internationally.  

Balanced with the export outlook is an industry development stream with workshops and peer meetings designed to help foster best practices within the Canadian folk industry through international dialogue with world class presenters, agents, record labels and managers.

FolkNorth strives to be a small-scale, high-level, invitation-oriented event designed to offer the exporting Canadian folk artist and industry a place to expand their business reach with an event anchored in Canada.  Deliberately designed to be ‘not another music conference’, the event places quality over quantity in its programming and professional development.

Find out more about FolkNorth’s offerings by visiting the event’s website here:

www.folknorth.ca

To preview a track from each showcasing artist, we’ve created a FolkNorth SoundCloud stream here: https://soundcloud.com/folkmusiccanada/sets/folknorth


LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Corin Raymond ON
Dave Gunning  NS
Digging Roots ON
Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys PE
Irish Mythen PE
Jenny Ritter Band BC
Kaia Kater ON
Les Poules à Colin QC
Matthew Byrne NL
Oh Susanna ON
Rob Lutes QC
Rosie & the Riveters SK
Sarah Jane Scouten QC
Ten Strings And A Goat Skin PE
The Bombadils QC
The Fretless SK
The Heartbroken ON
The Young Novelists ON
The Lonesome Ace Stringband ON
Kaitlyn and Ben  US
Jake Morley UK
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage UK

LIST OF PARTICIPATING EXPORT DELEGATES
John    Smith   Free Dirt Records
Steve   Szymanski       Planet Bluegrass
Mollie  Farr    Lost Buffalo Artists
Mark    Lourie  Skyline Artists
Lisa    Schwartz        Philadelphia Folk Festival
Justin  Nordell Philadelphia Folksong Society
Peter   North   Salmon Arm Roots & Blues
Lee     Mayer   Houla Entertainment
Kimberly        Sinclair        Spincount
Maria   Thessink        Tonder Festival
Mark    Anstey  Unique Gravity
Neil    Pearson English Folk and Dance Song Society
Tom     Sweeney Rootbeat Recods
Phil    Simpson Strada Artists
Anya    Siglin  The Ark
Troy    Greencorn       Stan Rogers Festival
Carol   Weatherall      North Country Fair
Julie   Fowler  ArtsWells
Matt    Large   Montreal Folk Festival
Steve   Johnson MerleFest
Dana    Beeler  In the Dead of the Winter
Cindy   Cogbill The Levitt Pavillon
Val     Denn    Val Denn Agency
Brad    Hunt    WNS Group
Jennifer        Campbell        Festival of Small Halls
James   Keelaghan       Summerfolk
Garry   West    Compass Records
Libby   Brickson        City Winery
Dolly   Chandler        City Winery

 This project has been made possible in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and the Roadmap for Canada’s Official Languages 2013-2018 : Education, Immigration, Communities, and by Canada’s private radio broadcasters.

Ce Projet a été rendu possible en partie grâce au FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et à la Feuille de route du Canada 2013-2018 : éducation, immigration, communautés, et des radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

We also acknowledge the support of Folk Music Ontario, Music PEI,  and Folk Alliance, as well as the promotional support of our event partner, SpinCount Promotions and Publicity and Penguin Eggs magazine.  We thank Bandzoogleand Marcato for helping to power the technological resources behind this event.



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