The Calgary Folk Music Festival (also known as "Calgary Folk Fest") is held in late July each year at Prince's Island Park, Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. While known for attracting both established and up-and-coming folk music

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

, the festival features a wide variety of artists including hip-hop, alternative, blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, and world acts. Over 60 artists play across seven stages (one main stage and six side stages). The festival also features an extensive arts market, beer gardens, family area, as well as a wide array of local food and beverage vendors.
The Calgary Folk Music Festivals attracted nearly 50,000 people in 2009. Its success and acclaim is largely attributed to the kindness, dedication, and hard work of its 1300+ volunteers.

Workshops

A popular feature of the Calgary Folk Music Festival is the inclusion of workshops into its programming. Workshops take place throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday across the six side stages. The workshops, also known as "jams

Jam session

Jam sessions are often used by musicians to develop new material, find suitable arrangements, or simply as a social gathering and communal practice session. Jam sessions may be based upon existing songs or forms, may be loosely based on an agreed chord progression or chart suggested by one...

" or "sessions" involve four to five festival artists playing together on the same stage. Often centered around a theme, some workshops feature acts of similar style, while others may feature artists of different genres. Artists generally take turns playing on each others songs, or improvising in a "jam" format.

Folk Boot Camp

In addition to the main festival on Prince's Island Park, the Calgary Folk Music Festival runs a series of three-day intensive workshops, taught by festival artists, in guitar, banjo, vocals, and song-writing. The three-day sessions allow the instructor and participants to develop their skills and receive constructive feedback from the instructor and peers.

Folk Boot Camp is geared towards musicians that have a basic grasp of their craft and want to supplement their own studies with guidance from some of the world’s finest musicians.

1980

The Travelling Folk Festival and Goodtime Medicine Show travelled Alberta to celebrate Alberta's 75th Anniversary.

• Sylvia Tyson
  Sylvia Tyson
  Sylvia Tyson, CM , is a musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster. From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson....
  
  
• Stringband
  Stringband
  Stringband was a Canadian folk music ensemble, fronted by Bob Bossin and Marie-Lynn Hammond. Founded in 1971, Stringband recorded four studio albums between 1973 and 1978, and was an active touring ensemble through 1986...
  
  
• John Allan Cameron
  John Allan Cameron
  John Allan Cameron, was a Canadian folk singer, "The Godfather of Celtic Music" in Canada. Noted for performing traditional music on his twelve string guitar, he released his first album in 1968. He released 10 albums during his lifetime and was featured on national television...
  
  
• Paul Hann
• Connie Kaldor
  Connie Kaldor
  Connie Isabelle Kaldor, is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter. She is the recipient of three Juno awards.Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, she graduated from Campbell Collegiate in Regina in 1972 and the University of Alberta in 1976 with a BFA degree in theatre...
  
  
• Jim Post
• Joan MacIsaac
• Duck Donald Band
• Stan Rogers
  Stan Rogers
  Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his finely crafted, traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing...
  
  
• John Hickman
• Dan Crary
• Byron Berline
  Byron Berline
  Byron Berline is an American fiddle player.-Biography:Berline started playing the fiddle at age five and quickly developed a talent for it. In 1965, he recorded the album Pickin' and Fiddlin with the Dillards...
  
  
• Wheatland County
• Robert Burton Hubele
• Andrew Metheven
• Robin Williamson
  Robin Williamson
  Robin Williamson is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, songwriter and storyteller, who first made his name as a founder member of The Incredible String Band.-Career:...
  
  
• Jamie Little
• Paul Hepher
• Chris Caswell and Dan Carnahan
• Better Late than Never
• Ceard
• Grit Laskin
• Michael Colcannon and John Leeder
• Su-Chong Lim
• Barry and Lyn Luft
• Prairie Crossing
• Ray Waddell
• The Wild Colonial Boys
• Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
• John Worrall
• Valdy
  Valdy
  Paul Valdemar Horsdal, CM , commonly known as Valdy, is a Canadian folk musician whose solo career began in the early 1970s. He is known for "Rock and Roll Song", his first mainstream single released in mid-1972 on Haida/A&M.He was a member of the London Town Criers during the 1960s and...
  
  

1981

• Sandra Beech
  Sandra Beech
  Sandra Beech is a Canadian children's musician. She was a member of the family music group The Musical Millars after relocating to Canada in 1953...
  
  
• Byron, Crary, and Hickman
• John Allan Cameron
• Ceard
• Margaret Christl
• Paul Hann
• Connie Kaldor
  Connie Kaldor
  Connie Isabelle Kaldor, is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter. She is the recipient of three Juno awards.Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, she graduated from Campbell Collegiate in Regina in 1972 and the University of Alberta in 1976 with a BFA degree in theatre...
  
  
• Nick Kukich
• Liberacion
• Barry and Lyn Luft
• Larry McNeely Band
• Plug Nickel
• Odetta
  Odetta
  Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals...
  
  
• Pied Pear
• Jim Post and Randy Sabien
• Stan Rogers
  Stan Rogers
  Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his finely crafted, traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing...
  
  
• Tim Rogers
• Doc Myles Snow Travelin' Show
• The Wild Colonial Boys
• Valdy

1982

• Sandra Beech
• Margaret Christl
• Paul Finkleman
• Héritage
• Su-Chong Lim
• Don Freed
• Nina Gerber
• Murray Hatfield
• Barry and Lyn Luft
• North Wind
• The New Prairie Ramblers
• Tom Paxton
  Tom Paxton
  Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
  
  
• Pied Pear
• Plug Nickel
• Peter Ostroushko
• Jim Post
• Prairie Crossing
• Red Clay Ramblers
  Red Clay Ramblers
  The Red Clay Ramblers are a North Carolina-based band founded in Durham, North Carolina, performing continuously since their formation in 1972. The original members include Tommy Thompson , Bill Hicks and Jim Watson...
  
  
• Stan Rogers
• Ryan's Fancy
  Ryan's Fancy
  Ryan’s Fancy was a musical group active from the 1960s until the 1980s, all three of whose members were Irish immigrants to Canada.-Early years:...
  
  
• Valdy
• The Wild Colonial Boys
• Robin and Linda Williams
• Kate Wolf
  Kate Wolf
  Kate Wolf was an American folk singer and songwriter. Though her career was relatively short, she had a significant impact on the folk music scene, and many musicians continue to cover her songs...
  
  

1983

• Jenny Allen
• Holly Arntzen
• Long John Baldry
  Long John Baldry
  John William "Long John" Baldry was an English and Canadian blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many British musicians, with Rod Stewart and Elton John appearing in bands led by Baldry in the 1960s. He enjoyed pop success in the UK where Let the Heartaches Begin reached No...
  
  
• Sandra Beech
• The Blue Flame
• Stringband
  Stringband
  Stringband was a Canadian folk music ensemble, fronted by Bob Bossin and Marie-Lynn Hammond. Founded in 1971, Stringband recorded four studio albums between 1973 and 1978, and was an active touring ensemble through 1986...
  
  
• Eric Bogle
  Eric Bogle
  Eric Bogle is a folk singer-songwriter. He emigrated to Australia in 1969 and currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia.-Career:...
  
  
• John Allan Cameron
• Diamond Joe White
• Emporium
• Paul Finkleman
• Paul Hann
• Hot Rize
• Joan MacIsaac
• Kate and Anna McGarrigle
  Kate and Anna McGarrigle
  Kate and Anna McGarrigle, were a pair of Canadian singer-songwriters from Quebec, who performed as a duo until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010.-Profile:...
  
  
• Murray McLauchlan
  Murray McLauchlan
  Murray McLauchlan, CM is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and harmonica player.-Biography:Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old...
  
  
• Will Millar
• Lee and Sandy Paley
• Tailor's Twist
• The Wild Colonial Boys
• Prairie Crossing

1984

• Vic Bell
• Suzy Bogguss and Lisa Smith
• Cahoots
• Margaret Christl
• Christy and Fred Cook
• A Couple of Cooks
• Mike Cross
• Draught Porridge
• Ernie the Band
• Folle Avoine
• Su-Chong Lim
• Lost in the Colonies
• Rita MacNeil
  Rita MacNeil
  Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS is a Canadian country and folk singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she has had hits on the country...
  
  
• Plug Nickel
• Murray McLauchlan
  Murray McLauchlan
  Murray McLauchlan, CM is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and harmonica player.-Biography:Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old...
  
  
• Prairie Crossing
• Fred Penner
  Fred Penner
  Frederick Ralph Cornelius Penner, is a Canadian children's entertainer who gives appearances throughout North America. His television show, Fred Penner's Place, aired on CBC in Canada from 1985 to 1997. It was co-produced by Nickelodeon in 1989 and 1990.Penner was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  
• Red Clay Ramblers
• Garnet Rogers
  Garnet Rogers
  Garnet Rogers is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He began his professional career working with his brother, folk musician Stan Rogers, and arranging Stan's music.-Career:...
  
  
• Tim Rogers and Barry Luft
• Trish Savill and Ron Sweet
• Richard Seguin
  Richard Séguin
  Richard Séguin is a Canadian author, composer and singer.His music career began in the 1970s with the duo "Les Séguin", with his twin sister Marie-Claire. He has had a solo career since 1977....
  
  
• Al Simmons
  Al Simmons (musician)
  Al Simmons is a Canadian children's performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He began performing in the 1970s and later made guest appearances on Fred Penner's television show as well as Sesame Street. He tours regularly across Canada and the United States...
  
  
• Stockton's Wing
• Tannahill Weavers
• Valdy
• Diamond Joe White
• John Worrall

1985

• African Heritage
• Battlefield Band
• Bim (aka Roy Forbes
  Roy Forbes
  Roy Forbes is a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, whose music bears heavy influences from classic American genres of acoustic blues and traditional country....
  
  )
• Bill Bourne
  Bill Bourne
  Bill Bourne is a Canadian musician and songwriter, who frequently collaborates with a variety of artists, including Alan MacLeod, Shannon Johnson, Lester Quitzau, Madagascar Slim, Aysha Wills, Eivør Pálsdóttir, Wyckham Porteous and Jasmine 'Jas' Ohlhauser.Raised in a musical family in rural...
  
  
• Cahoots
• Ceard
• Margaret Christl Band
• Cody
• Gary Fjellgard
• Folle Avoine
• Marie-Lynn Hammond
  Marie-Lynn Hammond
  Marie-Lynn Hammond is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, broadcaster and playwright. Born in Montreal to a Franco-Ontarian mother and an Anglo-Quebecer father, she is fluently bilingual and writes and performs material in both English and French.She began her career as a founder of the folk music...
  
  
• Paul Hann
• Robert Burton Hubele
• Interlude Mime Theatre
• Connie Kaldor
  Connie Kaldor
  Connie Isabelle Kaldor, is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter. She is the recipient of three Juno awards.Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, she graduated from Campbell Collegiate in Regina in 1972 and the University of Alberta in 1976 with a BFA degree in theatre...
  
  
• James Keelaghan
  James Keelaghan
  James Keelaghan is a Juno award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Born in Calgary, Alberta and now based in Winnipeg, many of his songs, such as "Kiri's Piano", about the internment of Japanese Canadians, and "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, are inspired by events and figures in Canadian...
  
  
• k d lang
• La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante
  La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Quebec specialising in traditional Québécois music, often with a modern twist.Formed in 1976, they have toured extensively through North America and Europe. As well as the traditional accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, the band added a...
  
  
• Loose Moose Theatre
• Ron Nolan
• One Yellow Rabbit
  One Yellow Rabbit
  One Yellow Rabbit is an adult-oriented contemporary theatre company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.One Yellow Rabbit began as a small troupe in 1982 and has grown into one of Canada's best-known theatrical voices at home and abroad. Blending elements such as drama, dance, poetry and monologue,...
  
  
• Organettes Steel Orchestra
• Lee and Sandy Paley
• Gilbert Parent
• Plug Nickel
• Prairie Crossing
• Queen Ida
  Queen Ida
  Ida Lewis "Queen Ida" Guillory is an Louisiana Creole accordionist. She was the first female accordion player to lead a zydeco band...
  
  's Bon Temp Zydeco
  Zydeco
  Zydeco is a form of uniquely American roots or folk music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century from forms of "la la" Creole music...
  
   Band
• Schooner Fare
• Sukay
  Sukay
  Sukay is a musical group known for playing music of the Andean regions of Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia. Sukay was started by Edmond Badoux from Switzerland and Quentin Howard from the United States in 1974. In 1975 they traveled to South America for a year where they studied Andean music in...
  
  
• The Original Balkan Jam
• The Wagon Stage Theatre Company
• The Wild Colonial Boys
• Kate Wolf
• John Worrall

1986

• April and Susan
• Asa and the Ogedengbe Drummers
• Big Miller Band
• Buddy the Clown
• CaHoots
• The Danish Soborg Dancers
• Darcy Deauville
• Mike Elliot
• Folle Avoine
• Bill Garrett and Curly Boy Stubbs
• Great Plains Dancers
• Great Western Orchestra
• Gryphon Quinte
• Hatsegana
• Hamish Imlach
  Hamish Imlach
  Hamish Imlach was a folksinger. He was born in Calcutta but claimed to have been conceived in Glasgow, Scotland. Although his commercial success was limited he influenced many other artists, including most notably John Martyn and Billy Connolly. In Central and Northern Europe Imlach enjoyed a...
  
  
• Colin James
  Colin James
  Colin James is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, who plays in the blues, rock, and neo-swing genres. He grew up as a Quaker.-Early years:...
  
  
• James Keelaghan
  James Keelaghan
  James Keelaghan is a Juno award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Born in Calgary, Alberta and now based in Winnipeg, many of his songs, such as "Kiri's Piano", about the internment of Japanese Canadians, and "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, are inspired by events and figures in Canadian...
  
  
• Les Bucherons
• Rita McNeil
• Doug MacArthur
• Murray McLauchlan
  Murray McLauchlan
  Murray McLauchlan, CM is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and harmonica player.-Biography:Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old...
  
  
• Sidney Melbourne and the Sons of the Outback
• Doc Myles
• The New Orleans Connection
• Mike O'Reilly Band
• ee and Sandy Paley
• Panorama Steel Band
• Pentangle
  Pentangle (band)
  Pentangle are a British folk rock band with some folk jazz influences. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version has been active since the early 1980s...
  
  
• Plug Nickel
• Prairie Crossing
• The Romaniacs
  The Romaniacs
  The Romaniacs was a Canadian band formed in 1984 and disbanded in 1995. They described their style as "musical ethno-fusion" combining Eastern European, Gypsy Jazz, and pop...
  
  
• Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West are a Canadian folk rock band, who were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada's most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s.-Early years:The band began...
  
  
• Al Stewart
  Al Stewart
  Al Stewart is a Scottish singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician.Stewart came to stardom as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s, and developed his own unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of the great characters and events from history.He is...
  
  

1987

• Holly Arnzten
• Vic Bell
• Eric Bogle
• Bill Bourne
• CaHoots
• The Calgary Fiddlers
• The Colorado Folk Ensemble
• Cosmotheka
• Eye Music
• Stephen Fearing
  Stephen Fearing
  Stephen Fearing is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter.Fearing was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He returned to Canada in 1981 and began pursuing a career in music. In addition to his solo career, Fearing was one of the founding members of Blackie and the Rodeo...
  
  
• Garnet Rogers
  Garnet Rogers
  Garnet Rogers is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He began his professional career working with his brother, folk musician Stan Rogers, and arranging Stan's music.-Career:...
  
  
• Vin Garbutt
• Great Western Orchestra
• Steve Hansen
• Huara
• Hooper Triplets
• Ray Jason
• James Keelaghan
• Barry and Lyn Luft
• Joan MacIsaac
• Mike O'Reilly Band
• Glen Mundy and
• Richard Harrow
• One Yellow Rabbit
• Organettes Steel Orchestra
• Oscar and Manuel
• Lee and Sandy Paley
• Paulo
• Plugnickel
• Prairie Crossing
• Riding Free
• Robin Flowers and the Bleachers
• The Romaniacs
• Run Rig
• Will Soto
• Ian Tyson
  Ian Tyson
  Ian Tyson CM, AOE is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Four Strong Winds". He was also one half of the duo Ian & Sylvia.-Career:Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C...
  
  
• Sally Truss
• Sneezy Waters
• The Wild Colonial Boys

1988

The Calgary Folk Festival presented an evening as part of the Olympic Arts Festival in February. There was no Summer Festival that year. The one night performance at the Jubilee Auditorium included:

• John Allen Cameron
• Margaret Christl
• Rufus Guinchard
• Jim Payne
• Kelly Russell
• Four the Moment
• Marie-Lynn Hammond
  Marie-Lynn Hammond
  Marie-Lynn Hammond is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, broadcaster and playwright. Born in Montreal to a Franco-Ontarian mother and an Anglo-Quebecer father, she is fluently bilingual and writes and performs material in both English and French.She began her career as a founder of the folk music...
  
  
• Josephine
• Connie Kaldor
• Rare Air
  Rare Air
  Rare Air, formerly Na Cabarfeidh, was a Canadian band that played an eccentric mix of instruments, including bagpipes, flutes, whistles, bombardes, bass guitar, and keyboards. The group, founded in the late 1970s as a celtic folk music band, was originally led by bagpipe virtuosos Grier Coppins and...
  
  
• Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West are a Canadian folk rock band, who were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada's most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s.-Early years:The band began...
  
  
• Valdy
• Nancy White
  Nancy White
  Nancy White is a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose topical songs were a regular feature on CBC Radio from 1976 to 1994 on the public affairs show Sunday Morning...
  
  

1989

• Beal Bocht Band
• Willie P. Bennett
  Willie P. Bennett
  Willie P. Bennett was a Canadian folk-music singer and song writer.-Life and career:Born William Patrick Bennett in Toronto, Ontario, Bennett was part of the 1970s folk music scene in Canada, alongside such figures as Bruce Cockburn, Stan Rogers and David Wiffen...
  
  
• Heather Bishop
  Heather Bishop
  Heather Bishop, OC is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter primarily known for her work in the field of children's music.- Biography :Bishop has been active in the folk community since the late 1960s. In 1976 she founded Mother of Pearl Records. She recorded her first children's album, Belly Button: A...
  
   and Sherry Shute
• Cahoots
• Wilf Carter
  Wilf Carter
  Wilf Carter , also known as Montana Slim, was a Canadian country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and yodeller...
  
   & the Great Western Orchestra
• Su Chong Lim
• Kem Hamm & Bruce Everett
• Juba!
• The James Keelaghan Trio
  James Keelaghan
  James Keelaghan is a Juno award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Born in Calgary, Alberta and now based in Winnipeg, many of his songs, such as "Kiri's Piano", about the internment of Japanese Canadians, and "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, are inspired by events and figures in Canadian...
  
  
• Larry and Curly
• Anne Loree
• Barry and Lyn Luft
• Lyn Luft & the Saturday Night Band
• Ellen MacIllwaine
• Messenjah
• Doc Myles Show
• Oscar & Manuel
• Orealis
• Same Difference
• Leslie Schatz & John Hyde
• Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West
  Spirit of the West are a Canadian folk rock band, who were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada's most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s.-Early years:The band began...
  
  
• Bruce Steele
• Jude Taylor & the Burning Flames
• Tim Williams
• Jesse Winchester
  Jesse Winchester
  Jesse Winchester is a musician and songwriter who was born and raised in the southern United States. To avoid the Vietnam War draft he moved to Canada in 1967, which is where and when he began his career as a solo artist. His highest charting recordings were of his own tunes, "Yankee Lady" in 1970...
  
  

1990

• Artis the Spoonman
• Willie P. Bennett
  Willie P. Bennett
  Willie P. Bennett was a Canadian folk-music singer and song writer.-Life and career:Born William Patrick Bennett in Toronto, Ontario, Bennett was part of the 1970s folk music scene in Canada, alongside such figures as Bruce Cockburn, Stan Rogers and David Wiffen...
  
  
• Jennifer Berezan
• Tony Bird
  Tony Bird
  Tony Bird is a folk rock singer-songwriter who was born and grew up in Nyasaland in Southern Africa. He is known for his Dylanesque vocals and for his songs which describe life in colonial Nyasaland from a progressive anti-colonial point of view....
  
  
• Bill Bourne & Allan MacLeod
• Paddy Byrne
• Christy Cook
• Morgan Davis
• The Dots
• Colleen Eccelston
• Don Freed
• Lennie Gallant
  Lennie Gallant
  Lennie Gallant, CM is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His music crosses into the folk, Celtic, rock and country music genres...
  
  
• Ken Hamm & Bruce Everett
• Marie-Lynn Hammond
  Marie-Lynn Hammond
  Marie-Lynn Hammond is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, broadcaster and playwright. Born in Montreal to a Franco-Ontarian mother and an Anglo-Quebecer father, she is fluently bilingual and writes and performs material in both English and French.She began her career as a founder of the folk music...
  
  
• Paul Hyde
  Paul Hyde
  Paul Hyde is a British-born Canadian musician and record producer .Born in Yorkshire, Hyde came to Canada as a teenager.- Hyde in the Payola$, Phase One :...
  
  
• Rob Hollis with Richard Gullsion
• The Too Hot Swing Review
• JJ the Juggling Fool
• Juba!
• Oscar Lopez
  Oscar Lopez
  Oscar Lopez is a Chilean-Canadian folk and nouveau flamenco guitarist. He has won many awards from the Latino community....
  
  
• Jim Page
• Gilbert Parent & Les Bucherons
• Rawlins Cross
• Lucy Blue Tremblay
• Tuck & Patti
  Tuck & Patti
  Tuck & Patti are an American husband and wife jazz duo.Oklahoma born guitarist Tuck Andress met singer Patti Cathcart, a native of San Francisco, at an audition in Las Vegas in 1980. Prior to this, Tuck had been a session performer with The Gap Band....
  
  
• Valdy
• Tim Williams

1991

• Alien Rebels
• Judy Anderson
• Jann Arden
  Jann Arden
  Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...
  
  
• The Bluebilly Trio
• Bourne & MacLeod
• Paul Brady
• Billy Branch & Sons of the Blues
• Bob de Wolff
• Shawn Colvin
  Shawn Colvin
  Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician.-Childhood and early career:Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age...
  
  
• Dabatram
• Dobb and Dumela
• The Easy T's
• Stephen Fearing
• First Draft
• God's Little Monkeys
• Grievous Angels
  Grievous Angels
  Grievous Angels were a Canadian alternative country band, active from 1986 to 2004. The band's primary member was singer-songwriter Charlie Angus, who entered electoral politics in 2004 as the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Timmins—James Bay....
  
  
• Paul Hann
• Steve Hansen the Puppet Man
• Harbourd Trio
• The Hot Too
• JJ the Juggling Fool
• Jerusalem Ridge
• Johnny V and the House Rockets with Dr. Boogie
• Judy, Lyn and Aliesje
• The Simpson Brothers
• Kindred Spirits
• The James Keelaghan Trio
• Mark Koenig
• Oscar Lopez
• Manigance
• Sid Marty
• Eileen McGann
• Cathy Miller
• Katy Moffat
• Tom Phillips
• The Tom Russell Band
• Bob Snider
  Bob Snider
  Bob Snider is a singer/songwriter from Toronto via Nova Scotia, Canada.A folk musician, Snider plays almost exclusively songs he has written himself, although notable exception was at the Bear River Reunion, where he played a cover of an old blues tune....
  
  
• Mike Stack
• Steve and Esther
• Sanvanya
• Two Penny Opera
• Peter Van Gelder
• Tim Williams

1992

• Acoustically Inclined
• Willie P Bennett
• Wendy Berner
• Cindy Church & the Rhythm Rangers
• Ashley Cleaveland
• Dabatram
• Ani Difranco
  Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kitty Donahue
• Teresa Doyle
• David Essig
• Roy Forbes
  Roy Forbes
  Roy Forbes is a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, whose music bears heavy influences from classic American genres of acoustic blues and traditional country....
  
  
• Paul Forest
• Lennie Gallant
• Amos Garret and the Eh Team
• Great Western Orchestra
• Green Fools
• The Grift
• Hamlet the Clown
• Bill Henderson
• Hot House Bluegrass Band
• JJ the Juggling Fool
• Jr. Gone Wild
• Judy, Lyn and Aliesje
• Connie Kaldor
• Kilgore Trout
• Alain Lamontagne
• Lewis, Pint and Dale
• Su Chong Lim
• Oscar Lopez
• Rufus McDewfus
• Rory McLeod
• Cathy Miller
• Ken Ozust
• Rachel Page
• Steve Pineo & the Groove
• Ranch Romance
• Roots Roundup
• Jimmy Roy's 5 Star Hillbillies
• Rumillajta
• Scatter the Mud
• Scartaglen
• Claudia Schmidt
• Rick Scott
• The Simpson Brothers
• Mike Stack
• The Swinging Bovines
• Pat Temple and High Lonesome
• Triple Threat
• U.H.F.
• Shari Ulrich
  Shari Ulrich
  Sharon Ulrich, is a Canadian musician-songwriter. She has won a Juno Award for "Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year", and has acted as a television host, actor, film composer, & songwriting educator...
  
  
• Tom Wilson
• Bobby Watt

1993

• The Albion Band
• Jenny Allen
• Anderson & Brown
• Back Alley John
  Back Alley John
  Back Alley John , was a Canadian blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player.-Beginnings, 1969-1971: Ottawa to Venice, California:...
  
  
• Wendy Berner
• Anne Brown
• Capercaillie
• Lee Collinson
• Justin Curtis & the Outer Limits
• Ani Difranco
  Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dobb & Dunnela
• The Dragon Talers
• David Essig
• Stephen Fearing
  Stephen Fearing
  Stephen Fearing is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter.Fearing was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He returned to Canada in 1981 and began pursuing a career in music. In addition to his solo career, Fearing was one of the founding members of Blackie and the Rodeo...
  
  
• Roy Forbes
• Jane Gillman & Darcie
• Deaville
• Green Fools
• David Grisman
  David Grisman
  David Grisman is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music.-Biography:Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey...
  
   Quartet
• Keith Hancock
• Stefan Hannigan
• Hart Rouge
• The Hoodoo Sons
• Johnnie Johnson
• Kilgore Trout
• David Knutson
• Kurtz, Cole & Bruce
• Penny Lang
• The Last Wild Sons
• Colin Linden
  Colin Linden
  Colin Linden is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of artists including Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Colin James, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas King and The Band.Linden is primarily a electric blues guitarist,...
  
  
• Eileen McGann
• Sue Medley
• Mother Tongue
• Art Napoleon
• Tom Paxton
  Tom Paxton
  Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
  
  
• Tom Phillips
• Queen Ida & her Zydeco Band
• Raja
• Roadside Turnout
• Rick Scott
• The Simpson Brothers
• Ian Tamblyn
• Triple Threat
• The Tuva Ensemble
• Kira van Deusen
• Tom Wilson

1994

• Ale Is Dear
• Alien Rebels
• Dave Alvin
• Meghana Bhat
• Black Umfolosi
• Courage of Lassie
• Craob Rua
• Daisy Debolt
• Paul Nelson Spencer
• David
• Guy Davis
• Die Knodel
• Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band
• Four Men and a Dog
• Cate Friesen
• Paul Geremia
• Great Western Orchestra
• Gypsy Bandits
• Hothouse Bluegrass Band
• Jackson Delta
• Lucy Kaplansky
• James Keelaghan
• John Campbell Band
• Los Lobos
  Los Lobos
  Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...
  
  
• Anne Loree
• Mara!
• Katy Moffatt
• Karl Roth and the Hot Too
• Mother Tongue
• Odetta
• Proclaimers
• Plaid Tongued Devils
  Plaid Tongued Devils
  The Plaid Tongued Devils are a Canadian musical group. It started as an alternative country duet with singer Ty Semaka and guitarist Alan Kolodziejzyk in 1990 and has been a 5 piece since 1992. Since 1998, their music has combined Roma, Klezmer, Ska, Rock and Jazz music, dubbed romaklezkarock by...
  
  
• Rawlins Cross
• Roots Punta Rock
• Sensible Footwear
• Shades of Culture
• Richard Shindell
• Martin Simpson
• David Thiaw
• Trio Carcamos
• Triple Threat
• Bob Wiseman
  Bob Wiseman
  Bob Wiseman is a Juno winning Canadian musician, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, and actor. Wiseman was an original member of Blue Rodeo.-Career:Wiseman was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He studied piano at York University...
  
  
• Wisht Ida
• Wyrd Sisters
  Wyrd Sisters
  Wyrd Sisters is Terry Pratchett's sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988, and re-introduces Granny Weatherwax of Equal Rites.- Plot :...
  
  
• Kathleen Yearwood
  Kathleen Yearwood
  Kathleen Yearwood is a Canadian experimental singer-songwriter and author, born in 1958.From Subterranean Records description of Kathleen Yearwood:...
  
  

1995

• Jerry Alfred and Medicine Beat
• Big Sugar
  Big Sugar
  Big Sugar is a Canadian blues-rock band, they were active from 1991 to 2004 and again since April 2010. The band has sold more than half a million albums in Canada.-History:...
  
  
• Bill Bourne and Shannon Johnson
• Blue Shadows
• Cindy Church Band
• Cold Club
• Dal-Dil-Vog
• Guy Davis
• Eval Manigat and Tchaka
• Irish Descendants
• John Gorka with Michael Manring
• Kyp Harness
  Kyp Harness
  Kyp Harness is a Canadian social activist and folk singer, known for the poetry of his lyrics.-Biography:Harness was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1964...
  
  
• Veda Hille
  Veda Hille
  Veda Hille is a Canadian singer-songwriter.- Biography :Veda Hille was born in 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She started playing piano when she was 6 at her own insistence. Her family moved around a lot, from the city to the country and back again...
  
  
• Ralph Boyd Johnson
• Clifton Joseph
• Jane Hawley Band
• Kathy Kallick and the Little Big Band
• Alias Ron Kavana
• Kilgore Trout
• Adrien Legg
• Laura Love Quartet
• Celso and Carlinhos Machado
• Danielle Martineau
• David Massengill
• Eileen McGann
• Rory McLeod
• Bill Morrisey
• Utah Phillips
  Utah Phillips
  Bruce Duncan "Utah" Phillips was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist...
  
  
• Steve Pineo
• Lester Quitzau
• Mark David Stewart
• Runa Mayu
• Seanachaidh
• Take the Oy Train
• Tariq
• Tinderbox
• Topp Twins
• Utungan Percussion
• Suzanne Vega
  Suzanne Vega
  Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.Two of Vega's songs reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner"...
  
  
• Dar Williams
  Dar Williams
  Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk.She is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, The Nields, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis.-Biography:Williams was born...
  
  
• Victoria Williams

1996

• Back Alley John
• Jenny Allen and Cathy Cook
• Jann Arden
  Jann Arden
  Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...
  
  
• Beautiful Joe
• Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
• Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
  
  
• Guy Clark
• Captain Tractor
• Carlos Del Junco
• Alpha Yaya Diallo
  Alpha Yaya Diallo
  Alpha Yaya Diallo is a guitarist and composer who is based in Vancouver, Canada. Alpha hails from Guinea and incorporates its rich musical tradition into his original compositions.-Discography:* 1993 Néné - nominated for a Juno Award...
  
   & Bafing
• Cheb Dino
• Joe Ely
• Four the Moment
• Green Fools
• Janis Ian
• Paul James
• Karamoko Kouyate and Manding
• Paul Kelly
• Luann Kowalek
• Penny Lang
• Limpopo
• David Lindley
  David Lindley (musician)
  David Perry Lindley is an American musician who is notable for his work with Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, and other rock musicians. He has worked extensively in other genres as well, performing with artists as varied as Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton...
  
   and Hani Naser
• Oscar Lopez
• Anne Loree
• Laura Love Band
• Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies
• Kate and Anna McGarrigle
• Terry Morrison
• The Neville Brothers
• Regina Ragamuffins
• Rheostatics
  Rheostatics
  Rheostatics was a Genie Award-winning Canadian indie rock band, active from 1980 to 2007.Although they had only one Top 40 hit, "Claire" in 1995, they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and unconventional rock bands, a band whose eclectic take on pop and rock music has been...
  
  
• Garnet Rogers
  Garnet Rogers
  Garnet Rogers is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He began his professional career working with his brother, folk musician Stan Rogers, and arranging Stan's music.-Career:...
  
  
• Tom Russell and Andrew Hardin
• Rwenzori
• Laura Smith
• Gwen Swick
• Ukrainians
• David Wilkie and the McDades
• W P. Puppeteers

1997

• Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men
• Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
  
  
• Vic Chesnutt
  Vic Chesnutt
  James Victor "Vic" Chesnutt was an American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. His first album, Little, was released in 1990, but his breakthrough to commercial success didn't come until 1996 with the release of Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation, a tribute album of mainstream artists...
  
  
• Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.-Biography:...
  
  
• Compadres
• Dead Reckoners
• The Doobie Brothers
• Drum Mothers
• Fred J. Eaglesmith
• Lorne Elliot
• Roy Forbes
• Giant Sand
• Regis Gizavo
  Régis Gizavo
  Régis Gizavo is a Malagasy accordionist.He was born in Tuléar, Madagascar and began playing the accordion at a young age. In 1990 he won the Radio France Internationale "Prix découvertes"....
  
  
• Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
  
  
• Alvin Youngblood Hart
• John Hiatt
  John Hiatt
  John Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other...
  
  
• Alex Houghton
• Ralph Boyd Johnson
• Ron Kavana Band
• Peter Knight
• Las Perlas Del Son
• MasQuirx
• Maza Meze
• George McFaul
• Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas
• Nazka
• The Neilds
• Oh Suzanna
• Niamh Parsons and Loose Connections
• Quartette
• Seanachie
• Shooglenifty
• Bob Snider
• Tariq
• Chip Taylor
• Hans Theessink and Blues Groove featuring Terry Evans
• Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir
• Tinderbox
• Boubacar Traore
• Lobi Traore
• Vincent Bucher Trio
• Al Tuck and No Action
• Waterson Carthy
• Dar Williams
• Tim Williams
• The Wyrd Sisters
  Wyrd Sisters
  Wyrd Sisters is Terry Pratchett's sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988, and re-introduces Granny Weatherwax of Equal Rites.- Plot :...
  
  

1998

• Jann Arden
• Dan Bern
• Blue Rodeo
• Richard Buckner
• Neko Case
  Neko Case
  Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
  
  
• Billy Cowsill
• Cox, Bartley and Clifford
• Hazel Dickens
  Hazel Dickens
  Hazel Jane Dickens was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. She was the eighth child of an eleven-child mining family in West Virginia. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs...
  
   and Alice Gerrard
• Carmaig de Forest
• Steve Earle
  Steve Earle
  Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
  
  
• Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:The son of Mexican immigrants to Texas, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo, and Sheila E...
  
  
• David Essig
• Felix and Formanger
• Lennie Gallant
• Giant Sand
  Giant Sand
  Giant Sand is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The name is shortened from the original Giant Sandworms, a reference to the creatures in the Dune books. Overseen by singer-songwriter Howe Gelb, its membership has shifted over the years—at times with each album...
  
  
• Great Big Sea
  Great Big Sea
  Great Big Sea is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage...
  
  
• Green Fools
• Arlo Guthrie
  Arlo Guthrie
  Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice...
  
  
• Hamlet the Clown
• Holmes Brothers
• Rickie Lee Jones
  Rickie Lee Jones
  Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...
  
  
• Larry Johnson
• Karshlama
• Kila
• Kojo
• Daniel Koulack
• Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
  
   and Union Station
• La Bottine Souriante
• Las Perlas Del Son
• Anne Loree
• Ian MacDonald
• Ashley MacIsaac
  Ashley MacIsaac
  Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac is a Canadian professional fiddler from Cape Breton Island.His album Hi™ How Are You Today?, featuring the hit single "Sleepy Maggie", with vocals in Scottish Gaelic by Mary Jane Lamond was released in 1995...
  
  
• maud
• Kavisha Mazzella
• Muzsikas
  Muzsikás
  Muzsikás is a Hungarian musical group playing mainly folk music of Hungary and other countries and peoples of the region. Established in 1973, it has also played works by classical composers, especially Béla Bartók, who himself collected folk tunes...
  
   with Marta Sebestyen
  Márta Sebestyén
  Márta Sebestyén is a Hungarian folk vocalist, as well as a composer and actress.Sebestyén's mother is a composer, and was a music student of Zoltán Kodály. Her father was an economist and author. When Sebestyén was seven years old, her father, returning from a trip to the U.S...
  
  
• Fred Penner
  Fred Penner
  Frederick Ralph Cornelius Penner, is a Canadian children's entertainer who gives appearances throughout North America. His television show, Fred Penner's Place, aired on CBC in Canada from 1985 to 1997. It was co-produced by Nickelodeon in 1989 and 1990.Penner was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  
• Tom Phillips and the Men of Constant Sorrow
• Plaid Tongued Devils
  Plaid Tongued Devils
  The Plaid Tongued Devils are a Canadian musical group. It started as an alternative country duet with singer Ty Semaka and guitarist Alan Kolodziejzyk in 1990 and has been a 5 piece since 1992. Since 1998, their music has combined Roma, Klezmer, Ska, Rock and Jazz music, dubbed romaklezkarock by...
  
  
• Lester Quitzau
• Leon Rosselson and Frankie Armstrong
• Seelyhoo
• Mark Sterling Band
• Taraf de Haidouks
• Linda Tillery
  Linda Tillery
  Linda Tillery is an American singer and percussionist from San Francisco.-History:Tillery first came to prominence as the lead singer in San Francisco group The Loading Zone in 1968-69...
  
   and the Cultural Heritage Choir
• Victoria Williams
• Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
  
   and David Rawlings
• Andy White
• Willie and Lobo
• Tim Williams and Big Dave McLean
• Bob Wiseman
  Bob Wiseman
  Bob Wiseman is a Juno winning Canadian musician, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, and actor. Wiseman was an original member of Blue Rodeo.-Career:Wiseman was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He studied piano at York University...
  
  

1999

• Joan Armatrading
  Joan Armatrading
  Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee and has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist...
  
  
• Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
  
  
• Bill Bourne
• Cascabulho
• Exene Cervenka
  Exene Cervenka
  Exene Cervenka is an American writer, musician and artist, most famous as the co-lead vocalist of the Los Angeles punk rock band X.-Career:...
  
  
• Ray Condo and the Ricochets
  Ray Condo
  Ray Condo was a Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist.-Life:Born Ray Tremblay in Hull, Quebec, Ray grew up across the river in Ottawa, Ontario the third of five children. Ray's two brothers, William and Robert were younger; his two sisters, Eileen and Maureen were older...
  
  
• Susan Crowe
• Joaquin Diaz
• Willie Dunn
• Fred Eaglesmith
• Steve Earle
  Steve Earle
  Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
  
  
• Honeyboy Edwards
• Freakwater
• Funco
• George Gao, Liu Fang
  Liu Fang
  Liu Fang is one of the most prominent pipa players in the world. Born in Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan, she began playing the pipa at the age of 6. Her first solo public performance was at the age of 9. In 1986, at age 11, she played for Queen Elizabeth II...
  
   and Prof. Ye Xu-Ran
• Dick Gaughan
• Great Uncle Bull
• Hijas del sol
• Veda Hille
  Veda Hille
  Veda Hille is a Canadian singer-songwriter.- Biography :Veda Hille was born in 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She started playing piano when she was 6 at her own insistence. Her family moved around a lot, from the city to the country and back again...
  
  
• Colin James and the Little Big Band
• Jerusalem Ridge
• The Kamkars
• James Keelaghan
• Keep it Up
• Rory McLeod and Aimee Leonard
• Dave Moore
• National Dust
• Odetta
  Odetta
  Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals...
  
  
• Red Smarteez
• Sonny Rhodes
• Tom Russell and Andrew Hardin
• Oumou Sangare
  Oumou Sangaré
  Oumou Sangare is a Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou." Wassoulou is a historic region south of the Niger River, and the music there is descended from traditional hunting songs, and is accompanied by a calabash...
  
  
• Scatter the Mud
• Oliver Schroer
  Oliver Schroer
  Oliver Schroer was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer.-Early life:Oliver Schroer grew up in Vandeleur, Ontario, a small crossroads near Markdale in rural Grey County. He attended Grey Highlands Secondary School in Flesherton, where he played French horn in the school band. He also...
  
  
• Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
  
  
• Shooglenifty
• Chris Smither
• Ulali
• Violent Femmes
  Violent Femmes
  Violent Femmes were an American alternative rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active between 1980 and 1987 and again from 1988 to 2009...
  
  
• Chantal Vitalis
• Sheila Wilcoxson
• Wimme
• Zubot and Dawson
  Zubot and Dawson
  Zubot and Dawson are a "Strang" music group from Vancouver, BC. Canada. The group is composed of Jesse Zubot on fiddle and Steve Dawson on guitar who play "Strang", which is in short a blend of folk and jazz music.- History :...
  
  

2000

• Alendai
• Altan
• The Arrogant Worms
  The Arrogant Worms
  The Arrogant Worms are a Canadian musical comedy trio that parodies many musical genres. They are well known for their humorous on-stage banter in addition to their music.-History:...
  
  
• Bad Livers
• Balfa Toujours
• Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet
• Blackie & the Rodeo Kings
• Blou
• Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
  
  
• Les Boucherons
• Kev Carmody
• Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Neko Case
  Neko Case
  Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
  
  
• Clanterra
• Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.-Biography:...
  
  
• Comadre Florzinha
  Comadre Florzinha
  Comadre Florzinha, also known as Comadre Fulorzinha or Comadre Fulozinha, is a Brazilian group formed by Karina Buhr , Mairah Rocha , Flávia Maia , Marcelo Monteiro and Letícia Coura...
  
  
• Cordes en Folie
• Danu
• Kris Demeanor
• Maria Dunn
  Maria Dunn (musician)
  Maria Dunn is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She has been described as "an arrestingly powerful singer-songwriter who writes great historical and social commentary." Her music blends Celtic folk with North American bluegrass and country influences.-Early life:...
  
  
• Great Big Sea
• Finjan
• Richie Havens
• Ronnie Hayward
• Donald Ray Johnson
• Kieran Kane
• Jon Langford
• Kanenhi:io Singers
• Lilison di Kinara
• Oscar Lopez
• Los Morenos
• Lullaby Baxter
• Natalie MacMaster
• Maher's Bahers
• Dave McCann and the Ten Toed Frogs
• Musafir
• Oh Susanna
• Pedro the Music Man
• Kelly Joe Phelps
  Kelly Joe Phelps
  Kelly Joe Phelps is an American musician and songwriter. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz.-Career:...
  
  
• Del Rey
• Kimmie Rhodes
• Freddie Roulette
  Freddie Roulette
  Frederick Martin "Freddie" Roulette is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He is best known as an exponent of the lap steel guitar. In a lengthy career, he has collaborated with Earl Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, Henry Kaiser, and Harvey Mandel, and released several...
  
  
• Martin Sexton
• Skydiggers
• Ensemble Tartit
• Richard Thompson
• Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir
• Sally Timms
• Le Twes
• La Volee de Castors
• Kevin Welch
• Jesse Winchester

2001

• Jenny Allen
• Australia Calling
• The Be Good Tanyas
  The Be Good Tanyas
  The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian traditional music group, whose influences included folk, country, and bluegrass. The style of music they performed can be referred to as alt-country or Americana.-Career:...
  
  
• Eric Bibb
• Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys
• Bocephus King
  Bocephus King
  Bocephus King is an Indie artist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His discography includes: Joco Music released in 1996 by Tonic Records, A Small Good Thing released in 1998 by New West Records, The Blue Sickness released in 2000 by Tonic Records, and All Children Believe In Heaven...
  
  
• Bowser and Blue
• Billy Bragg
  Billy Bragg
  Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
  
  
• Michael Jerome Brown
• Buckwheat Zydeco
• David Byrne
  David Byrne
  David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
  
  
• Eliza Carthy
• Tom Cochrane
  Tom Cochrane
  Tom Cochrane, OC Canadian musician and humanitarian, best known for his hit songs "Life Is a Highway", "Lunatic Fringe", "Human Race" and "I Wish You Well". Cochrane fronted the Canadian rock band Red Rider and has won seven Juno Awards...
  
  
• Cowboy Junkies
  Cowboy Junkies
  Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins , Michael Timmins , Peter Timmins and Alan Anton ....
  
  
• Robert David's Mighty Mardi Gras
• Gord Downie and Julie Doiron
  Julie Doiron
  Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...
  
  
• Christine Fellows
• David Francey
• Howe Gelb
  Howe Gelb
  Howe Gelb is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer based in Tucson, Arizona.-Projects:Gelb's approach to music is collaborative and he has recorded with a number of side projects...
  
  
• Tanya Tagaq
• Green Fools
• The Handsome Family
  The Handsome Family
  The Handsome Family is an alternative country band, formed in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The band was formed in 1993 by husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks and Rennie Sparks and drummer Mike Werner, although the band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes...
  
  
• Corey Harris
• Gordon Johnson & Kelly Hoppe
• Martyn Joseph
• Daniel Koulack
• Corb Lund
• Ashley MacIsaac
  Ashley MacIsaac
  Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac is a Canadian professional fiddler from Cape Breton Island.His album Hi™ How Are You Today?, featuring the hit single "Sleepy Maggie", with vocals in Scottish Gaelic by Mary Jane Lamond was released in 1995...
  
  
• Dougie McLean
• Carolyn Mark
  Carolyn Mark
  Carolyn Mark is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the duo The Corn Sisters with American colleague Neko Case, as well as with the bands the Vinaigrettes, Jr. Gone Wild, Showbusiness Giants, the Fixin's and the Metronome Cowboys...
  
  
• Kathy Mattea
• Ellen McIlwaine
• Njava
• Ongo Trogode
• Oysterband
• Tom Phillips and the Men of Constant Sorrow
• Red Smarteez
• Rembetika Hipsters
• Rheostatics
  Rheostatics
  Rheostatics was a Genie Award-winning Canadian indie rock band, active from 1980 to 2007.Although they had only one Top 40 hit, "Claire" in 1995, they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and unconventional rock bands, a band whose eclectic take on pop and rock music has been...
  
  
• Garnet Rogers
• Scruj MacDhuk
• Chris Smith and the Almost Leather Band
• Spirit of the West
• Stiff Gins
• Waifs
• Victoria Williams
• Wimme

2002

• Kiran Ahluwalia
  Kiran Ahluwalia
  Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indo-Canadian singer who publicly performs her own musical arrangements of ancient Persian and Punjabi Ghazals, or poems....
  
  
• Dan Bern
• B'net Marrakech
• Bomba
• Ray Bonneville
• Brothers Cosmoline
• Peter Case
• Co-Dependents
• Jesse Cook
• Dottie Cormier
• The Jim Cuddy Band
• Olu Dara
• De Dannan
• Dervish
• D'Gary
• David Essig
• Fairport Convention
  Fairport Convention
  Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...
  
  
• Filippo Gambetta Trio
• Mary Gauthier
  Mary Gauthier
  Mary Gauthier is an American folk singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Gauthier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Given up at birth by a mother she never knew, Gauthier was adopted by an Italian Catholic couple in Thibodaux, Louisiana...
  
  
• Christine Graves Trio
• Hayden
  Hayden (musician)
  Paul Hayden Desser who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Thornhill, Ontario.His early works are a largely eclectic mix of genres from grunge rock to alt country, as demonstrated by his first full album, Everything I Long For, released in 1995. Since then his work has become...
  
  
• Robyn Hitchcock
  Robyn Hitchcock
  Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....
  
  
• Ralph Boyd Johnson
• Chantal Kreviazuk
  Chantal Kreviazuk
  Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar.-Albums:...
  
  
• Sleepy LaBeef
• La Bottine Souriante
• Laio
• Anne Loree Trio
• Nick Lowe
  Nick Lowe
  Nicholas Drain "Nick" Lowe , is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer.A pivotal figure in UK pub rock, punk rock and new wave, Lowe has recorded a string of well-reviewed solo albums. Along with vocals, Lowe plays guitar, bass guitar, piano and harmonica...
  
  
• Harry Manx
• Carolyn Mark
  Carolyn Mark
  Carolyn Mark is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the duo The Corn Sisters with American colleague Neko Case, as well as with the bands the Vinaigrettes, Jr. Gone Wild, Showbusiness Giants, the Fixin's and the Metronome Cowboys...
  
  
• Rory McLeod
• Lynn Miles
• Mortal Coil
• Norouet
• Steve Pineo Trio
• Rambling Roses Revue
• John Reischman and the Jaybirds
• Restless Lester
• The Sadies
  The Sadies
  The Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
  
  
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...
  
  
• Silk and Steel
• Martina Sorbara
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
• Mike Stack
• Swamperella
• Rokia Traore
• Jim White
• Warren Zevon
  Warren Zevon
  Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
  
  

2003

• Colin Adjun
• Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
• Alacie and Lucy
• Alpha Yaya Diallo
• Aqsarniit
• Backstabbers
• Kim Barlow
• Bill Hilly Band
• Blue Rodeo
• Pieta Brown and Bo Ramsey
• Buck 65
  Buck 65
  Richard Terfry , who uses the stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian experimental artist, MC and turntablist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, rock, folk and avant garde influences.Terfry is also a radio host,...
  
  
• Cephas & Wiggins
• Abdullah Chhadeh & Nara
• Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
  
  
• The Cottars
• Danu
• Kris Demeanor & His Crack Band
• Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kathleen Edwards
• Ruthie Foster
• Friends of Dean Martinez
• Amos Garrett Acoustic Project
• Sarah Harmer
  Sarah Harmer
  Sarah Harmer is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist.-Biography:Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sister Mary started taking her to concerts by the well-known Tragically Hip. At the age of 17, she...
  
  
• Horace X
• Jolly Boys
• Craig Korth & Julie Kerr Band
• Lappelectro
• Daniel Lanois
  Daniel Lanois
  Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...
  
  
• Le Vent du Nord
• Lee Boys
• Petrona Martinez
• Lorrie Matheson
• McDades
• Old Reliable
• Niamh Parsons
• Kelly Joe Phelps
  Kelly Joe Phelps
  Kelly Joe Phelps is an American musician and songwriter. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz.-Career:...
  
  
• Michelle Shocked
• Jane Siberry
• Silver Hearts
• Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• Slainte Mhath
• Son de Madera
• Al Stewart
  Al Stewart
  Al Stewart is a Scottish singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician.Stewart came to stardom as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s, and developed his own unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of the great characters and events from history.He is...
  
  
• Taima Project
• Mick Thomas
• T-Model Ford
• Ian Tyson
• Chantal Vitalis
• Ann Vriend
• Waifs
• White Cockatoo
• Nathan Wiley
• Wilson, Lopushinsky and Burgess
• Zubot
  Jesse Zubot
  Jesse Zubot is a Canadian musician primarily known for his unique violin playing. Zubot also works as a producer, engineer, and composer.-History:...
  
   & Dawson
  Steve Dawson
  Steven "Dobby" Dawson , is an English bass guitarist, founder of Saxon.Dawson was the inspiration for Harry Shearer's Spinal Tap character Derek Smalls.-Saxon:*Saxon *Wheels of Steel...
  
  

2004

• Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
• Arlene Bishop
• Bowser and Blue
• Chuck Brodsky
• Caitlin Cary
• Juan Jose Carranza
• Steve Coffey and the Lokels
• Stompin' Tom Connors
  Stompin' Tom Connors
  Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC is one of Canada's most prolific and well-known country and folk singers.He lives in Wellington County, Ontario.- Early life :...
  
  
• Susan Crowe
  Susan Crowe
  Susan Crowe is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She lived for many years in Toronto and Vancouver but now has returned to her birthplace Halifax....
  
  
• Olu Dara
• Gaye Delorme
• Steve Earle
• Ruthie Foster
• Fiamma Fumana
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
• Dick Gaughan
• Thea Gilmore
• Great Big Sea
• Ken Hamm
• John Wort Hannam
• Jorane
• Corey Harris
• Veda Hille
• Martyn Joseph
• James Keelaghan
• Paul Kelly
• Los de Abajo
• Corb Lund
• David McGimpsey
• Tony McManus
• Scott Merritt
• Mighty Popo
• Nathan
  Nathan (band)
  Nathan are an alt-country band from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada.After their debut independent album Stranger won a Prairie Music Award for Outstanding Independent Album, the band signed to Nettwerk Records...
  
  
• Youssou N'Dour
  Youssou N'Dour
  Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...
  
  
• Billeh Nickerson
• Po' Girl
  Po' Girl
  Po' Girl is a Canadian group whose style derives from folk, country and jazz. The style of music they perform is called "urban roots."The band evolved from a series of jam sessions, in 2000, between Trish Klein of The Be Good Tanyas and Allison Russell, then of Fear of Drinking...
  
  
• Rae Spoon
  Rae Spoon
  Rae Spoon is a Canadian transgender folk/indie singer/songwriter from Calgary, Alberta.His breakthrough album, 2008's Superioryouareinferior, was recorded in Calgary and introduced some electronic music elements into his style.-Biography:...
  
  
• North Mississippi Allstars
  North Mississippi Allstars
  North Mississippi Allstars is a Southern rock/blues jam band from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996. The band is composed of brothers Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson , and Chris Chew...
  
  
• One Ring Zero
• Rankin Sisters
• Earl Scruggs
• Shooglenifty
• Martin Simpson
• Spirit of the West
• Ben Sures
• Taj Mahal
• Mariko Tamaki
• Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir
• Urban Divide
• Rob Ursel + the House Doctors
• Rhonda Vincent and the Rage
• Warsaw Village Band
• The Weakerthans
  The Weakerthans
  The Weakerthans are a four-piece Canadian indie rock band.-History:The band was formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by John K. Samson, after he left the punk band Propagandhi to start a publishing company. Samson joined forces with bassist John P...
  
  
• Darren Wershler-Henry
• Andy White
• Wild Colonial Boys
• Wil
• Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...
  
  
• Saul Williams
  Saul Williams
  Saul Stacey Williams is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film Slam.-Biography:...
  
  
• D'bi Young

2005

• Arrested Development
• The Arrogant Worms
• Balkan Beat Box
• Buck 65
  Buck 65
  Richard Terfry , who uses the stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian experimental artist, MC and turntablist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, rock, folk and avant garde influences.Terfry is also a radio host,...
  
  
• Karan Casey Band
• C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band
• JP Cormier
• Iris DeMent
• Dochas
• Maria Dunn
• Steve Earle
• Christine Fellows
  Christine Fellows
  Christine Fellows is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.-History:Born in Windsor, Ontario and raised in France and Kelowna, British Columbia, Fellows lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Guelph and Montreal before settling in Winnipeg in 1992.In 1993, she formed her first group,...
  
  
• Bill Frisell
  Bill Frisell
  William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
  
  
• Mary Gauthier
• Anne Louise Genest
• Thea Gilmore
• Green Fools
• Sarah Harmer
  Sarah Harmer
  Sarah Harmer is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist.-Biography:Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sister Mary started taking her to concerts by the well-known Tragically Hip. At the age of 17, she...
  
  
• Holmes Brothers
• Hungry Hill
• Ron Hynes
• Indigo Girls
  Indigo Girls
  The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area...
  
  
• Instinkt
• Kawa Brass Band
• KlezMerovitz
• K'naan
  K'naan
  K'naan , born Keinan Abdi Warsame in 1978, is a Somali Canadian poet, rapper, singer, songwriter and instrumentalist.-Biography:Born in Somalia, K'naan spent his childhood in Mogadishu and lived there during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. His aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia's most...
  
  
• Jackie Leven
• Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca
• David Lindley
• Oscar Lopez
• Shelby Lynne
• The Del McCoury Band
• Kate and Anna McGarrigle
• Wendy McNeil
• Danny Michel
  Danny Michel
  Danny Michel is a singer-songwriter from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.- Biography :Danny Michel was born in 1970 next to the "Smiles n' Chuckles" chocolate factory in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada...
  
  
• Allison Moorer
  Allison Moorer
  Allison Moorer is an American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne. She signed to MCA Nashville in 1998 and made her debut on the U.S...
  
  
• Snehasish Mozumder and Vineet Viyas
• No Guff
• Lucia Pulido
• Edouard Richard
• Xavier Rudd
  Xavier Rudd
  Xavier Rudd is an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in 1978 and grew up in Torquay, Victoria. He attended St. Joseph's College, Geelong....
  
  
• Justin Rutledge
• Ron Sexsmith
  Ron Sexsmith
  Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
  
  
• Al Simmons
• Stephen's Green
• The Swiftys
• Koko Taylor
• Tortoise
  Tortoise
  Tortoises are a family of land-dwelling reptiles of the order of turtles . Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The tortoise...
  
  
• Jeff Tweedy
  Jeff Tweedy
  Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedy is an American songwriter, musician and leader of the band Wilco. Tweedy joined rockabilly band The Plebes with high school friend Jay Farrar in the early 1980s, but Tweedy's musical interests caused one of Farrar's brothers to quit...
  
  
• Chad Van Gaalen
• The Wailin' Jennys
• Waterson:Carthy
• The Weakerthans
• Tim Williams and the Electro Fires
• Hawksley Workman
  Hawksley Workman
  Ryan Corrigan , better known by the stage name Hawksley Workman, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock. Workman has released eleven full length albums throughout his career...
  
  

2006

• Dave Alvin
• Amir Amiri Trio
• Back of the Moon
• Bedouin Soundclash
  Bedouin Soundclash
  Bedouin Soundclash is a Canadian band currently based in Toronto. Their sound can be described as reggae and ska.-History:The band's current lineup consists of vocalist and guitarist Jay Malinowski, and bassist Eon Sinclair with Sekou Lumumba on drums. Their debut album, Root Fire, released in 2001...
  
  
• Dan Bern
  Dan Bern
  Dan Bern is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, novelist and painter. His music is often compared to that of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs and Elvis Costello....
  
  
• Vishaw Mohan Bhatt & Salil Bhatt
• John Boutte
• Broken Social Scene
  Broken Social Scene
  Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Most of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto...
  
  
• Doug Cox & Sam Hurrie
• Jay Crocker & His Electric Apes
• Kris Demeanor & His Crack Band
• Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...
  
  
• D Rangers
• Luke Doucet
  Luke Doucet
  Luke Doucet is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He writes and performs both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock band Veal....
  
  
• Kathleen Edwards
  Kathleen Edwards
  Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Her 2003 debut album, Failer, contained the singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates".- Personal life :...
  
  
• Andrew Elliott
• Elliott Brood
  Elliott Brood
  Elliott BROOD is a three-piece, alt-country band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, and harmonica, Casey Laforet on guitar, backing vocals, bass pedals, keys and ukulele and Stephen Pitkin on percussion, sampler and backing vocals...
  
  
• Stephen Fearing
  Stephen Fearing
  Stephen Fearing is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter.Fearing was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He returned to Canada in 1981 and began pursuing a career in music. In addition to his solo career, Fearing was one of the founding members of Blackie and the Rodeo...
  
  
• Feist
• Frigg
• Robbie Fulks
• Galant, Tu Perds Ton Temps
• Eliza Gilkyson
  Eliza Gilkyson
  Eliza Gilkyson is an Austin, Texas-based folk musician. She is the daughter of songwriter and folk musician Terry Gilkyson and Jane Gilkyson. She is the sister of guitarist Tony Gilkyson, who played with the Los Angeles-based bands Lone Justice and X...
  
  
• Matthew Good
  Matthew Good
  Matthew Frederick Robert Good is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002...
  
  
• Macy Gray
  Macy Gray
  Macy Gray is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress, famed for her distinctive raspy voice, and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis.Gray has released five studio albums, with her fifth studio album, The Sellout,...
  
  
• Great Lake Swimmers
  Great Lake Swimmers
  Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker. Originally from Wainfleet, Ontario, the band is currently based in Toronto....
  
  
• Grupo Fantasma
  Grupo Fantasma (American band)
  Grupo Fantasma is an eleven-piece, Grammy Award winning Latin funk orchestra from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2000 from the merger of two Austin acts, The Blue Noise Band and The Blimp, the band emerged with a sold out show at the former Empanada Parlour in Austin...
  
  
• Ronnie Hayward
• Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards
• House of Doc
• Tim Hus
  Tim Hus
  Tim Hus is a Canadian country/folk singer, based out of Calgary, Alberta.Tim Hus and his Travelin' Band, which includes bull fiddler Riley Tubbs and lead string man Peterbilt Pete Christian, and occasionally Pat Phillips on drums, have toured from coast to coast performing their true Canadian music...
  
  
• Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
  
  
• La Raquette A Claquettes
• Little Axe
• Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies
• Madgrigaia
• The Mammals
• Erynn Marshall & Chris Coole
• Aurelio Martinez
• Masaji
• Lorrie Matheson
• Romi Mayes
  Romi Mayes
  Romi Mayes is a Canadian born musician. Romi Mayes was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and began performing on stage at the age of 15 years, and touring throughout the United States and the UK playing at festivals, theatres, bars, halls, cafes and even living rooms.-Styles:Mayes' style has been...
  
  
• Melissa McClelland
  Melissa McClelland
  Melissa McClelland is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter who lived in Hamilton, Ontario, in her youth and now bases her career from Toronto. McClelland's music is influenced by blues and americana. A writer on CMJ's staff blog wrote that McClelland has "a persona reminiscent of a female...
  
  
• Ellen McIlwaine
  Ellen McIlwaine
  Ellen McIlwaine is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist.-Biography:...
  
   & Cassius Khan
• Eric Moschopedis
• Niyaz
  Niyaz
  Niyaz is an Iranian musical trio. The group was created in 2005 by DJ, programmer/producer and remixer Carmen Rizzo, vocalist and hammered dulcimer player Azam Ali, formerly of the group Vas, and Ali's husband, Loga Ramin Torkian, of the Iranian crossover group Axiom Of Choice...
  
  
• Ndidi Onukwulu
  Ndidi Onukwulu
  Ndidi Onukwulu is a Canadian singer originally from Burns Lake, British Columbia. Although her style is often classified as jazz and blues, Onukwulu combines several musical genres in her songs including surf music, electric blues, gospel, and country...
  
  
• Eliseo Parra
• Ridgetop Syncopators
• The Roches
• Garnet Rogers
  Garnet Rogers
  Garnet Rogers is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He began his professional career working with his brother, folk musician Stan Rogers, and arranging Stan's music.-Career:...
  
  
• Rubinchik's Yiddish Ensemble
• Salt
• Savoy-Doucet
• Son Volt
  Son Volt
  Son Volt is an alternative country group formed by Jay Farrar in 1994 after the breakup of the band Uncle Tupelo.-History:The group formed after Farrar met Jim and Dave Boquist during the final Uncle Tupelo tour. Together with former Uncle Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn, the band rehearsed and...
  
  
• Sorrow Bound
• Stew
• Tanya Tagaq
• That 1 Guy
• Daby Toure
• Rachelle van Zanten
• Dar Williams
  Dar Williams
  Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk.She is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, The Nields, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis.-Biography:Williams was born...
  
  
• Leroy "The GrandMaster" Young

2007

• Agent Orange
• Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
• Lubo Alexandrov & Kaba Horo
• Bandaloni
• Battlefield Band
• Ridley Bent
  Ridley Bent
  Ridley Bent is a Canadian country singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Bent was raised throughout Canada in a military family. He formally launched his musical career in 2000....
  
   Trio
• Beolach
• Geoff Berner
  Geoff Berner
  Geoff Berner is a Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player from Vancouver, British Columbia.Due to his insightful humor, politically inflammatory compositions and showmanship, Berner has gained a cult following over the years, especially in Canada and Norway, where he recorded his first...
  
  
• John Boutte
• Edie Brickell
  Edie Brickell
  Edie Arlisa Brickell is an American singer-songwriter best known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went #4 on the US Albums Chart.-Life and career:...
  
   & The New Bohemians
• Jim Byrnes
  Jim Byrnes (actor)
  James Thomas Kevin "Jim" Byrnes is a blues musician, guitarist, and actor.-Life and career:Byrnes was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a homemaker mother and a municipal accountant father. He has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since the mid-1970s...
  
  
• The Cape May
  The Cape May
  The Cape May are a musical act from Calgary, Alberta. Formed in 2003 by Clinton St. John and Jeff Macleod the band released their first album Central City May Rise Again on Flemish Eye in 2005. The band's lineup is now rounded out by multi-instrumentalist Matt Flegel...
  
  
• Neko Case
  Neko Case
  Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
  
  
• Chirgilchin
• Chumbawamba
  Chumbawamba
  Chumbawamba is a British musical group who have, over a career spanning nearly three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music...
  
   (acoustic)
• City & Colour
• Slaid Cleaves
• Cowboy Celtic
• Creaking Tree String Quartet
• Crooked Jades
• Crooked Still
• Brett Dennen
• Dyad
• eccodek
• Final Fantasy
• Jeremy Fisher
  Jeremy Fisher
  Jeremy Fisher is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Fisher is based in Montreal, Quebec and was previously based on Vancouver Island, B.C. and in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A....
  
  
• Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
• Mary Flower
• Foggy Hogtown Boys
• Good Brothers
• Great Big Sea
  Great Big Sea
  Great Big Sea is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage...
  
  
• Gustavo the Impossiblist
• Jane Hawley
• the hummers
• Jamaica to Toronto
• Paul Ubana Jones
• Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
• Jon-Rae and the River
• Connie Kaldor
  Connie Kaldor
  Connie Isabelle Kaldor, is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter. She is the recipient of three Juno awards.Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, she graduated from Campbell Collegiate in Regina in 1972 and the University of Alberta in 1976 with a BFA degree in theatre...
  
  
• Leo Kottke
  Leo Kottke
  Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...
  
  
• Bettye LaVette
  Bettye LaVette
  Bettye LaVette is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise...
  
  
• Anne Loree
  Anne Loree
  Anne Loree is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Edmonton, Alberta. Best known as the writer of "Insensitive", an international Top 40 hit for Jann Arden in 1995, Loree has also released four albums as a solo performer. She was also previously a member of Jr...
  
   & Kit Johnson
• Eleni Mandell
  Eleni Mandell
  Eleni Mandell is an American singer-songwriter. She currently publishes albums through Zedtone in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  
• Don McLean
  Don McLean
  Donald "Don" McLean is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".-Musical roots:...
  
  
• Moshav
• Los Munequitos de Matanzas
• Mushfiq Ensemble
• Nathan
• New Orleans Social Club
• Oh Susanna
• Old Man Luedecke
  Old Man Luedecke
  Old Man Luedecke is the recording name of Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player, Chris Luedecke, of Chester, Nova Scotia...
  
  
• Ollabelle
• Cam Penner & Gravel Road
• Polyjesters
• Rembetika Hipsters
  Rembetika Hipsters
  The Rembetika Hipsters are a Canadian music group based in Calgary, Canada. They perform primarily Greek rebetiko music, as well as composing original music and exploring styles from Epirus, known as Epirotika, Smyrnaiko music from the region now known as Izmir, and Nisiotika music of the Greek...
  
  
• The Sadies
  The Sadies
  The Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
  
  
• Darrell Scott
• Sarah Slean
  Sarah Slean
  Sarah Hope Slean is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and occasional actress from Pickering, Ontario. She has released eleven albums to date .-Major recordings:...
  
  
• PF Sloan
• Chris Smither
• Squirrel Nut Zippers
  Squirrel Nut Zippers
  The Squirrel Nut Zippers are a band formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina by James "Jimbo" Mathus , Katharine Whalen , Chris Phillips on drums, Don Raleigh on bass and sideman Ken Mosher....
  
  
• TOFU
• Rufus Wainwright
  Rufus Wainwright
  Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...
  
  
• Watermelon Slim & The Workers
• William Elliott Whitmore
  William Elliott Whitmore
  William Elliott Whitmore is an American blues singer and musician from Lee County, Iowa. He has recorded a number of albums released on Southern Records, and now is a member of the Anti Records family. His act consists mostly of playing the banjo or guitar while singing, though on occasion he...
  
  
• Hawksley Workman
  Hawksley Workman
  Ryan Corrigan , better known by the stage name Hawksley Workman, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock. Workman has released eleven full length albums throughout his career...
  
  
• Adrienne Young & Little Sadie

2008

• A Hawk and a Hacksaw
• Sam Baker
• Bedouin Soundclash
  Bedouin Soundclash
  Bedouin Soundclash is a Canadian band currently based in Toronto. Their sound can be described as reggae and ska.-History:The band's current lineup consists of vocalist and guitarist Jay Malinowski, and bassist Eon Sinclair with Sekou Lumumba on drums. Their debut album, Root Fire, released in 2001...
  
  
• Be Good Tanyas
• Beija Flor
• Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
  
  
• Bomba
• Calexico
• Bill Callahan
• Basia Bulat
  Basia Bulat
  - External links :*...
  
  
• Andrew Bird
  Andrew Bird
  Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.- Early life and the Bowl of Fire :...
  
  
• Carolina Chocolate Drops
• Eliana Cuevas
• Consonant C
• Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Julie Doiron
  Julie Doiron
  Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...
  
  
• The Duhks
  The Duhks
  The Duhks is a band from Winnipeg, Canada.The members play a blend of Canadian soul, gospel, North American folk, Brazilian samba, old time country string band, zydeco, and Irish dance music. Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, their music draws heavily on all of the North American musical traditions,...
  
  
• Duvo
• Mark Erelli
• Fada Dance
• Joel Fafard
  Joel Fafard
  Joel Fafard, November 18, 1968. Fafard is a Canadian finger-style and slide guitarist from Saskatchewan. He now lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia....
  
  
• Great Lake Swimmers
  Great Lake Swimmers
  Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker. Originally from Wainfleet, Ontario, the band is currently based in Toronto....
  
  
• The Handsome Family
  The Handsome Family
  The Handsome Family is an alternative country band, formed in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The band was formed in 1993 by husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks and Rennie Sparks and drummer Mike Werner, although the band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes...
  
  
• John Wort Hannam
  John Wort Hannam
  John Wort Hannam is a Canadian Folk Music musician, from Fort Macleod, Alberta. He was born on the Isle of Jersey of the British Channel Islands. John Wort Hannam is known for his story telling through music. Themes which are central to his music include life in Western Canada, and the human...
  
  
• Jaune Toujours
• Claire Jenkins avec Band
• Diana Jones
• Martyn Joseph
• Kara Keith
• Kobotown
• Sonny Landreth
• Lau
• Les Tireux d'Roches
• Los Straitjackets featuring Big Sandy
• Lost Bayou Ramblers
• Aimee Mann
  Aimee Mann
  Aimee Mann is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.-Early life:Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes...
  
  
• Greg McPherson
• Eneida Marta
• Master Musicians of Jajouka
• Wendy McNeil
• Gurf Morlix
  Gurf Morlix
  Gurf Morlix is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer residing for many years in Austin, Texas. He has worked with many of the best known performers of Americana and alternative country music. His most notable works include albums by Lucinda Williams, Robert...
  
  
• Charlie Musselwhite
• Meshell Ndegeocello
• No Luck Club
• Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
  Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
  Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band is the name taken by Conor Oberst and his backing band, which is composed of Nik Freitas , Taylor Hollingsworth , Macey Taylor , Nate Walcott and Jason Boesel .-History:...
  
  
• Tim O'Brien
• Outlaw Social
• Tao Ravao & Vincent Bucher
• Josh Ritter
  Josh Ritter
  Josh Ritter is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and author who performs and records with The Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics. In 2006 he was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by Paste magazine.- Early life :Josh...
  
  
• Sam Roberts Band
• Socalled
  Socalled
  Josh Dolgin, aka Socalled, is a Canadian rapper and producer, known for his eclectic mix of hip hop, klezmer and other styles, for example drum & bass and other types of folk music. A pianist and accordion player, he has taught the latter at Klezfest London, where he has also run workshops in...
  
  
• Jayme Stone & Mansa Sisoko
• The Men They Couldn't Hang
  The Men They Couldn't Hang
  The Men They Couldn't Hang are a British folk punk group. The original group consisted of Stefan Cush , Paul Simmonds , Philip "Swill" Odgers , Jon Odgers and Shanne Bradley .- Controversy and success:Their first single, "The Green Fields...
  
  
• The Sizeable Men
• Maryem Tollar
  Maryem Tollar
  Maryem Tollar , is a Toronto based singer who primarily sings Arabic songs. She played with her own band called Mernie!.Born in Cairo, Maryem went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada with her parents when she was 1 in 1969...
  
   & the Toronto Cairo Collective
• Torngat
  Torngat
  Torngat is a Montreal indie band and instrumental trio established in 2001.-Biography:Torngat's popularity increased with the 2005 release of their EP La Rouge. During the spring of 2006 and after increasing demand, Torngat toured Eastern Canada. Torngat signed a two-album deal with Montreal...
  
  
• James Blood Ulmer
• Abigail Washburn & Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck
• The Weakerthans
  The Weakerthans
  The Weakerthans are a four-piece Canadian indie rock band.-History:The band was formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by John K. Samson, after he left the punk band Propagandhi to start a publishing company. Samson joined forces with bassist John P...
  
  
• Widow Maker
• Jesse Winchester
  Jesse Winchester
  Jesse Winchester is a musician and songwriter who was born and raised in the southern United States. To avoid the Vietnam War draft he moved to Canada in 1967, which is where and when he began his career as a solo artist. His highest charting recordings were of his own tunes, "Yankee Lady" in 1970...
  
  
• Woodpigeon
  Woodpigeon (band)
  Woodpigeon are an independent rock band from Calgary, Alberta, consisting of eight core members: Mark Hamilton , Kenna Burima , Michael Gratton , Annalea Sordi , Daren Powell , Peter Moersch , Foon Yap , AJ Benoit...
  
  

2009

• The Acorn
  The Acorn
  The Acorn is a Canadian indie folk band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 2003. Their songs have charted on Canadian campus charts and have been in rotation on CBC Radio 3 and The Verge....
  
  
• Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara
• Akron/Family
  Akron/Family
  Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and its members currently live in Portland, Oregon , Tucson, Arizona and New York City, New York.-Music and history:...
  
  
• Darol Anger, Mike Marshall & Väsen
• Apostle of Hustle
  Apostle of Hustle
  Apostle of Hustle is a Canadian indie rock group, formed in 2001 by Andrew Whiteman.-History:The band is more or less the brainchild of Andrew Whiteman, who has been in such groups as Bourbon Tabernacle Choir and Que Vida. He released a solo effort titled Fear of Zen in 1995. He is also the lead...
  
  
• Arrested Development
• Danny Barnes Acoustic Band
• Bell Orchestre
  Bell Orchestre
  Bell Orchestre is a six-piece instrumental band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.In late 2003, they recorded their first album, at the same time and in the same studio that Arcade Fire recorded Funeral. However, Arcade Fire's popularity was just beginning to break when they asked Bell Orchestre to...
  
  
• Bellowhead
  Bellowhead
  Bellowhead are an English contemporary folk band originally brought together by John Spiers and Jon Boden. The eleven-piece band plays traditional dance tunes, folk songs and shanties, with arrangements drawing inspiration from a wide diversity of musical styles and influences...
  
  
• Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few
• Glen Campbell
• Hayes Carll
• Jay Crocker
• Amelia Curran
  Amelia Curran (musician)
  Amelia Curran is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
  
  
• Kat Danser
• Steve Dawson
• The Decemberists
  The Decemberists
  The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk , Jenny Conlee , Nate Query , and John Moen .The band's...
  
  
• The Deep Dark Woods
  The Deep Dark Woods
  The Deep Dark Woods are a Canadian alternative country band from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, currently signed to Sugar Hill Records in the United States and Six Shooter Records in Canada...
  
  
• Dragon Fli Empire
  Dragon Fli Empire
  Dragon Fli Empire is a hip hop duo from Calgary, Canada, comprising Tarik Robinson, also known as Teekay , and Adam Hicks, also known as DJ Cosm ....
  
  
• Dry Branch Fire Squad
• The Ebony Hillbillies
• Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:The son of Mexican immigrants to Texas, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo, and Sheila E...
  
  
• Esthero
  Esthero
  Esthero ,born Jenny-Bea Englishman, is a Canadian singer-songwriter who currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney...
  
  
• Ferron
  Ferron
  Ferron, born Debby Foisy on , is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter and poet. In addition to being one of Canada's most famous folk musicians, she is one of the most influential writers and performers of women's music, and an important influence on later musicians such as Ani DiFranco, Mary Gauthier...
  
  
• Michael Bernard Fitzgerald
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
• Dick Gaughan
• Gomez
  Gomez (band)
  Gomez are an English indie rock band from Southport, comprising Ian Ball , Paul "Blackie" Blackburn , Tom Gray , Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock . The band is distinguished for having three singers and four songwriters, employing traditional and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Good Lovelies
• Sarah Harmer
  Sarah Harmer
  Sarah Harmer is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist.-Biography:Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sister Mary started taking her to concerts by the well-known Tragically Hip. At the age of 17, she...
  
  
• Corey Harris
• Jolie Holland
  Jolie Holland
  Jolie Holland is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional, country, rock, jazz, and blues...
  
  
• Ray Wylie Hubbard
  Ray Wylie Hubbard
  Ray Wylie Hubbard is an American Texas Country singer and songwriter.-Early life:Hubbard grew up in southeastern town of Hugo, Oklahoma. His family moved to Oak Cliff in south Dallas, Texas in 1954. He attended W. H. Adamson High School with Michael Martin Murphey, who had his own band at the time...
  
  
• Iron and Wine
• Kid Koala
  Kid Koala
  Eric San , who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and an author of graphic novels. He is signed to the British record label Ninja Tune, is a member of alternative hip hop supergroup Deltron 3030, and The Slew with Dynamite D and former members of the...
  
  
• Labess
• LeE HARVeY OsMOND
  Lee Harvey Osmond
  Lee Harvey Osmond, stylized as LeE HARVeY OsMOND, is a Canadian "acid folk" band, whose core member is musician Tom Wilson.The band first took shape as a collaboration between Wilson, Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies and Josh Finlayson of Skydiggers, who wrote, recorded and released the band's...
  
  
• Luluc
• Carolyn Mark
  Carolyn Mark
  Carolyn Mark is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the duo The Corn Sisters with American colleague Neko Case, as well as with the bands the Vinaigrettes, Jr. Gone Wild, Showbusiness Giants, the Fixin's and the Metronome Cowboys...
  
  
• Loreena McKennitt
  Loreena McKennitt
  Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, clear soprano vocals...
  
  
• Mekons
• Mirah
  Mirah
  Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn , is an American musician based in San Francisco California. She has released five albums under the K Records label.- Background :...
  
  
• Los Misioneros del Norte
• Mutabaruka
• Myrol
• Pacifika
• Steven Page
  Steven Page
  Steven Jay Page , is a Canadian musician. Along with Ed Robertson, he was a founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and a primary songwriter of the music group Barenaked Ladies ; he left the band in 2009 to pursue a solo career....
  
  
• PAPAGROOVE
• The Persuasions
• Ramblin' Ambassadors
• Justin Rutledge
  Justin Rutledge
  Justin Rutledge is a Toronto-based alt-country singer-songwriter signed to Six Shooter Records.Rutledge's musical style is often compared to that of American alt-country singer Ryan Adams. His influences, both of the literary and music world, include Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams, Richard Brautigan...
  
  
• The Sojourners
• Mavis Staples
  Mavis Staples
  Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tarhana
• The Tom Fun Orchestra
• Umalali
• Chad VanGaalen
  Chad VanGaalen
  Chad VanGaalen is a Canadian musician and artist from Calgary, Alberta.-Infiniheart:Following a few scattered independent releases, done mostly on homemade CDs with hand-drawn art, VanGaalen released Infiniheart on Canadian independent label Flemish Eye...
  
  
• Vishten
• Emily Wells
• Nancy White
  Nancy White
  Nancy White is a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose topical songs were a regular feature on CBC Radio from 1976 to 1994 on the public affairs show Sunday Morning...
  
  
• Phil Wiggins & Corey Harris
• Jason Wilson
• The Woodchoppers Association with Jah Youssouf

2010

• Karla Anderson
• Annie Lou
• Asani
• Natacha Atlas
  Natacha Atlas
  Natacha Atlas is a Belgian singer known for her fusion of Arabic and Western electronic music, particularly hip-hop. She once termed her music "cha'abi moderne" . Her music has been influenced by many styles including Arabic, hip hop, drum 'n' bass and reggae.Atlas began her career as part of...
  
  
• The Avett Brothers
  The Avett Brothers
  The Avett Brothers is a folk rock band from Mount Pleasant, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Scott Avett and Seth Avett, who play the banjo and guitar respectively, and Bob Crawford who plays the stand-up bass. Joe Kwon, cello, and Jacob Edwards, drums, are touring members of...
  
  
• Axis of Conversation
• Baskery
• Bette & Wallet
• Debashish Bhattacharya
• Greg Brown
• The Burning Hell
  The Burning Hell (band)
  The Burning Hell is a Canadian band from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, now based in St. John's, Newfoundland.-History:The Burning Hell is led by Mathias Kom and band members fluctuate with a rotating cast of up to fourteen other musicians. They are signed to the Toronto based weewerk label and...
  
  
• Caracol
• The Cat Empire
• Coolooloosh
• Delhi 2 Dublin
• DJ Dolores
• DJ Logic
  DJ Logic
  DJ Logic is an American turntablist active primarily in jazz and with jam bands.Kibler was born and raised in The Bronx. An early interest in hip hop led to his using the turntables, practicing often. Kibler was also interested in funk and jazz music, and began collaborating with various musicians...
  
  
• Dojo Workhorse
• e.s.l.
• El Puchero del Hortelano
• David Essig
• Etran Finatawa
• Roberta Flack
  Roberta Flack
  Roberta Flack is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is notable for jazz, soul, R&B, and folk music...
  
  
• Michael Franti and Spearhead
• Fribo
• Chris Gheran
• Ghostkeeper
  Ghostkeeper (band)
  Ghostkeeper is a progressive folk and blues act from Calgary, Canada. The group takes its name from main songwriter: Shane Ghostkeeper. Their debut album Children of the Great Northern Muskeg was released on Saved by Radio on July 15, 2008 in Canada...
  
  
• Thea Gilmore
  Thea Gilmore
  Thea Eve Gilmore is a British female singer-songwriter. She began her career working in a recording studio, where she was discovered by her now long-time collaborator, producer and sometime co-songwriter Nigel Stonier, whom she married in October 2005.-Career:Gilmore was born in Oxford to Irish...
  
  
• Haydamaky
• Joe Henry
  Joe Henry
  Joseph Lee "Joe" Henry is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Henry's musical style spans several genres, including alt. country, rock, jazz and folk.- Early years :...
  
  
• Hill Country Revue
• Robin Holcomb
• Honeybear
• Jon and Roy
  Jon and Roy
  -History:Singer-songwriter and guitarist Jon Middleton and percussionist Roy Vizer met at University of Victoria. They formed Jon and Roy, and began performing around Victoria and Vancouver in 2003...
  
  
• Jordan Klassen
• Konono No. 1
• Library Voices
  Library Voices
  Library Voices are a Canadian indie pop band from Regina, Saskatchewan. Formed in 2008 as a ten-piece group of musician friends, they have released two EPs and two full-length albums...
  
  
• Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans
• Madison Violet
  Madison Violet
  Madison Violet is a Canadian duo composed of singer-songwriters Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac. The group has been notable for various folk and pop award nominations and wins.- History :...
  
  
• Man Man
  Man Man
  Man Man is an experimental band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Man Man is known for their exuberant live performances. When performing, the members of the band sometimes coordinate their outfits, often seen in white outfits and, more commonly, war paint....
  
  
• Dan Mangan
  Dan Mangan
  Daniel Mangan is a Canadian indie folk-rock singer-songwriter.-Early life:Mangan was born in Smithers, British Columbia. His family moved a fair amount, residing in both the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia - and primarily in his current home town of Vancouver...
  
  
• Laura Marling
  Laura Marling
  Laura Beatrice Marling is an English folk musician from Eversley, Hampshire.Initially prominent within the London folk scene, she has also toured with a number of well-known indie artists in the UK. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim and her second album I Speak Because I Can were nominated for...
  
  
• Mauvais Sort
• Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Project
• Geoff Muldaur
  Geoff Muldaur
  Geoff Muldaur is an American founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band of Cambridge, Massachusetts; a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days; and an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, and songwriter....
  
  
• Ohbijou
  Ohbijou
  -Biography:Ohbijou began as the solo project of Brantford singer-songwriter Casey Mecija . Through the process of songwriting and composition, Casey discovered a need for the musical support of her sister Jennifer Mecija , whom Casey invited to assist with her early performances...
  
  
• Ox
  Ox (band)
  Ox is a Canadian alternative country indie band. The core of the band consists of Mark Browning on lead vocals and guitar, Ryan Bishops on guitar and piano, Shawn Dicey on bass and Max Myth on drums...
  
  
• Peatbog Faeries
• Steve Pineo
• Po' Girl
  Po' Girl
  Po' Girl is a Canadian group whose style derives from folk, country and jazz. The style of music they perform is called "urban roots."The band evolved from a series of jam sessions, in 2000, between Trish Klein of The Be Good Tanyas and Allison Russell, then of Fear of Drinking...
  
  
• Finley Quaye
  Finley Quaye
  Finley Quaye is a British musician. He won the 1997 Mobo Award for best reggae act, and the 1998 BRIT Award for Best British Male Solo Artist.-Life:...
  
  
• Del Rey
• Romantica
• Tom Russell
  Tom Russell
  Thomas George "Tom" Russell is an American singer-songwriter. Although most strongly identified with the Texas Country music tradition, his music also incorporates elements of folk, Tex-Mex, and the cowboy music of the American West. Many of his songs have been recorded by other artists, including...
  
  
• Shakura S'Aida
  Shakura S'Aida
  Shakura S'Aida is a Canadian blues and jazz vocalist, songwriter and actress. She is sometimes credited as simply Shakura, and should therefore not be confused with the Colombian pop star Shakira....
  
  
• Samantha Savage-Smith
• Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
• J.R. Shore
• St. Vincent
• Stars
• Sunparlour Players
  Sunparlour Players
  Sunparlour Players are a Canadian alternative/folk rock band. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consists of Andrew Penner on lead vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, organ pedal, and kick drum, Dennis Van Dine on bass, keyboard, clarinet, banjo, glockenspiel, percussion and backing vocals, and Michael...
  
  
• The Swell Season
  The Swell Season
  The Swell Season is a folk rock duo formed by Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová. "The Swell Season" name is derived from Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title...
  
  
• Linda Tillery
  Linda Tillery
  Linda Tillery is an American singer and percussionist from San Francisco.-History:Tillery first came to prominence as the lead singer in San Francisco group The Loading Zone in 1968-69...
  
   and the Cultural Heritage Choir
• Timber Timbre
  Timber Timbre
  Timber Timbre is a Canadian folk music project, featuring Mika Posen, Simon Trottier and Taylor Kirk. The moniker refers to an early series of recordings made in a timber-framed cabin set in the wooded outskirts of Bobcaygeon, Ontario....
  
  
• Frank Turner
  Frank Turner
  Frank Turner is an English folk/punk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke, Winchester. Initially the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, Turner embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005. To date, Turner has released four solo albums, two rarities...
  
  
• Ian Tyson
  Ian Tyson
  Ian Tyson CM, AOE is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Four Strong Winds". He was also one half of the duo Ian & Sylvia.-Career:Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C...
  
  
• Ukrainia
• United Steel Workers of Montreal
  United Steel Workers of Montreal
  United Steel Workers of Montreal are a six-piece alternative country ensemble based in downtown Montreal. At present, the band consists of Gern F , Felicity Hamer , Sean "Gus" Beauchamp , Matt Watson , Flipper Frumignac and Dylan Perron...
  
  

External links

• Calgary Folk Fest Web Page