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Headliners Aysanabee, Protest the Hero, Mariel Buckley, The Grapes of Wrath, Murda Beatz, and William Prince join local performers Superstar Crush, Emma Whale, Golden Feather, Chore, Capitol, and Steve Strongman. For one weekend every September, James Street North in Hamilton transforms into the epicentre of Canadian music. Since…

Born Ruffians – Beauty’s Pride For a band that once felt like it might combust from sheer nervous energy and mileage logged, Born Ruffians have aged in a surprisingly graceful, and still charmingly unpredictable way. Beauty’s Pride finds the long-running Toronto/Hamilton group loosening their grip on that early, jittery urgency…

The Ancaster singer-songwriter has just released her sixth album, Just Be You, but don’t ask her what genre it is. HINT: It’s a bit of everything. Just Be You, the sixth album by Ancaster-based folk-pop singer-songwriter Caroline Wiles, was released on April 24, and it is another…

Hamilton folk and bluegrass quartet will play the Mariposa Folk Festival and will release their first vinyl record this summer. We caught up with Wreckless Harbour to chat about their debut at the Mariposa Folk Festival, the state of folk music in troubled times, and their long-awaited vinyl…