 (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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