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Recently described by Spill Magazine as ‘perhaps the greatest undiscovered talent today’, Henry Bateman’s music falls somewhere between the worlds of ambient, progressive rock and folk musics; somewhere between Peter Gabriel, Neil Finn and James Taylor, with a virtuoso acoustic guitar style reminiscent of the likes of Nick Drake and Michael Hedges. He’s doing his own thing; at the age of just 22, he’s just released his third solo album ‘Hide & Seek’ to high critical acclaim. 

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““James Brandon Lewis, A Jazz Saxophonist In His 30s, Raw-Toned But Measured, Doesn’t Sound Steeped In Current Jazz-Academy Values And Isn’t Really Coming From A Free-Improvising Perspective. There’s An Independence About Him, And On “Days Of FreeMan” (Okeh), He Makes It Sound Natural To Play Roaming, Experimental Funk, With Only The Electric Bassist Jamaladeen Tacuma And The Drummer Rudy Royston, And Without Much Sonic Enhancement.

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Great stories take great storytellers.  And if you’ve been to an Ascending From Ashes show, you might feel like you’ve heard a few great ones.  AFA, a rock/metal quartet from New Jersey, bring tales of warfare and passion to life with an adept mix of lush vocal harmony and guitar shred-wizardry.  By fusing strong songwriting sensibility with their energetic metal tact, Ascending From Ashes broadcast an accessible array of musical journeys.

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The Western Swing Authority is Canada’s most recognized and awarded authentic Western Swing group. Made up of a collection of some of the country’s finest touring and studio musicians, they came together to play the timeless style of music they love. Seamlessly combining stellar musicianship and vocals with traditional country and jazz standards and their own “new vintage” originals, they have created a sound that is truly their own. 

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You don’t have to travel far into Suzie Vinnick’s catalogue of music to know you’ve found something singular and unforgettable. Hailing from Saskatoon and now settled in Ontario’s Niagara Region, Suzie is one of those rare performers who knows when to deliver the vocal knock out and when to pull back to a whisper, bending notes and phrases that tiptoe across your heart. Even her humming is like a warm caress. “Singing is like sleeping and breathing for me. If you can’t sing with feeling, you can’t move people”. She performs with a warmth and generosity that makes her at home on your best friend’s front porch or under the lights of the National Arts Centre.

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Biography :Formed in 2016, Tantrum settled on the current lineup and set about bringing traditional British heavy metal back to a public force fed on a diet of sanitised radio rock!

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By now, the scene’s insiders see RAZZMATTAZZ as the new trademark for hard rock with ass-kick guarantee. The band is on their way to establishing themselves in the professional league.The lads have been thrilling their audiences all over Southern Germany and Switzerland ever since they came together in 2011. Their sound, related to AC/DC, ZZTop and NWOBHM make hard rock fans of all ages bang their heads. Hullabaloo and hustle andbustle – the actual meaning of the band name Razzmattazz- are guaranteed.

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The Cave Twins is David Mayfield & Abby Rose. Identical twins separated at birth and reunited in song. David Mayfield, a Grammy & Emmy nominated artist grew up in a family band and has toured & recorded with groups like The Avett Brothers, Black Keys, & Mumford & Sons, and made numerous appearances on television including The Late Show with David Letterman & The Grand Ole Opry.

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David Massey played guitar on and off for fifteen years before taking a stab at writing a song.  At 35, moved by his sister’s struggles with mental illness, he wrote “Susie Came Home.”  Not sure what to make of the result, he set it aside and didn’t attempt a second song until six years later.  On Memorial Day, 2001, he read a Washington Post reprint of a letter a young American fighter pilot wrote to his wife during World War II after learning of the birth of their first child.

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“Mine” is the 5th full length album by the hard traveling, foot stomping roots duo known as Swampcandy. Set for release in October, “Mine” is 13 songs of acoustic and electric americana heavily influenced by primitive blues, world music, hard driving rock’n’roll, rotgut whiskey, almost 2 000 live shows and 100’s of 1 000’s of road miles. The tales they spin are sometimes moral, sometimes dark, yet always timeless. Sonically, the material weaves seamlessly between the incredibly full sound created by the core band, guitarist and vocalist Ruben Dobbs and bassist and foot drummer Joey Mitchell, and the ultimate vision of the songs replete with keyboards, strings, vibes and more.

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On their 3rd album, “Psychic Reader”, Stockholm guitar slingers The Plastic Pals flirt with glam, ska, pub rock and 70’s soul and funk. But the band still stay true to their patented twin guitar, drums and bass sound, drawing inspiration from 70’s CBGB’s rock and the Paisley Underground, with a dash of powerpop, psychedelia and blue eyed soul.

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Years before forming the Americana duo Surrender Hill, songwriters Robin Dean Salmon and Afton Seekins chased their own muses as solo artists.
 

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