The Celtic Rathskallions CD Includes I’se The B’ye, The Unicorn Song, Early One Morning, The Rattlin’ Bog, Song For The Mira and more. Featuring Wendy Moore, Paul Mills and Arthur McGregor. Also on the album: Maddie’s Moon story, narrated and set to music.

James Cohen is an outstanding guitar player, and together with a great band he brings beautiful music. The vivid musical arrangements and the flamenco/gipsy jazz background together almost create a blues fusion. His guitar play emits high intensity and shows a great feel for lyricism, balance and musical structure. These qualities result in a prominent new CD “Ho Phi”. Although there is a high amount of energy in his arrangements, the CD still gives the feeling being very relaxed.

In short: James Cohen takes elements from flamenco, swing jazz and blues, and brings them together in a convincing original and timeless manner.

“Ho Phi” is gewoon een verslavend album!
Translates into
“Ho Phi” is absolutely a contagious album!

Since 2001, Stefani Guzman has released five CDs independently: first as a solo artist, then as the front woman and songwriter of girly punk band the Hussies, and most recently as indie-rock darling Eastborough.

She has performed at the Ottawa Folk Festival (Showcase Winner), the Central Canada Exhibition (Showcase Winner), Ladyfest, the acclaimed Women's Voices Festival, Ottawa Pride and CKCU 93.1 FM's Live Music Show as well as countless coffee shops, grungy bars and backyards.

On stage, she is often surrounded by veterans of the Ottawa music scene who mix in a crunchy backline and layer splashes of trumpet, melodica, glockenspiel, cello and moog over non-fiction stories inspired by X’s & O’s and action & consequence.

The Secret Life

Lee Hayes is an award-winning songwriter and a gifted solo performer. Her stage experience is extensive; Hayes has toured Canada, the US, and the UK in the last 10 years. 2002 marks the debut of her first solo CD 'The Secret Life', which received a glowing 4 1/2 star review from the Ottawa Xpress Entertainment Magazine.

Hayes was a founding member of the all female A Cappella group Malaika (1994-2006). Vocal arrangement and performance became an obsession, which Hayes has channelled into adult harmony classes in Ottawa, Canada. Recently Hayes has formed a new Girl Group, Cantarra; this multi-genred 4-woman vocal group is a myriad of harmony rhythms and percussions, in many languages (English, French, Spanish, Swahili, Zulu, Finnish, and Italian to date). Cantarra will release their first recording in the spring of 2008.

"The Secret Life-4 1/2 stars...roaming effortlessly between folk, pop and country...an exceptional and long-awaited collection from a first-rate performer"

- Steve Baylin, Ottawa Xpress

October

"The thing I really like about Meredith Luce is that she sounds like Meredith Luce and no one else. Her songwriting and guitar work in particular, reflect a maturity way beyond her years. Listening back to the recording session we did with her in July 2007, there is a sort of awkward, stunned silence after the first song because we were so taken aback at how good she sounded.

We feel very fortunate to have had her participate in the UpNorth Music project and look forward to her becoming a big deal in the music industry so we can shamelessly drop her name and tell people that we knew Meredith way back in 2007."
-- Joel Hurd, Production Manager - North Country Public Radio (January 18, 2008)

Thunder Into Heaven

"Doug McArthur’s world is well worth visiting and “Thunder Into Heaven” is well worth listening to." (les siemieniuk, Penguin Eggs Magazine, Summer, 2007)

The Galaxie Folk/Roots Channel’s most-played, high-rotation Canadian album releases May 2007: #2 Doug McArthur - Thunder Into Heaven- (Patio)

Rating 3.5 (3 = Good, 4 = Excellent)
"......this tuneful, evocative album brims with the solid narratives and warm-blooded characters that have been Wakefield-based McArthur's trademark for 20-plus years." (Patrick Langston, Ottawa Citizen Sat. April 29, 2007)

"It can take a life time to sing with one’s own pure sound in a voice that echoes with the gift and the journey of the artist. With his new CD, Thunder into Heaven, Doug McArthur has come into his own, singing with a subtle, lyric authority that haunts the listener long after. Each cut rings true" (Catherine Joyce - Lowdown)

"Born in the dawn of 2007 this album will guage how I listen to new recordings this year." (Chopper McKinnon Host "Canadian Spaces" CKCU 93.1 FM Feb.02/07)