In This Issue:

• Introduction
• Pharis & Jason Romero
• Van Dyke Parks & Steve Dawson
• April Verch
• Maeve Mackinnon
• Hearland Expedition
• Tony McManus
• Kim Barlow
• Annie Lou
• mip
• Mississippi Sheiks
• Slide To Freedom
• Jenny Lester

Please email or call
250-847-5228 for more availabilities.
 

New Albums
&
Featured Tours
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A Passing Glimpse

Pharis & Jason Romero
Sep/Oct 2012
British Columbia

Feb/Mar 2013
Alberta

Starting 2012...
'THE BIG BROADCAST'

Format options:
Trio adds bass
4 adds multi instrumentalist
5 piece adds female vocals 

March/April 2013
Across Canada

That's How We Run

April Verch Band

May 2012
Ontario & Quebec & Nunavut
October
Maritimes & Ontario

March 2013
Ontario & Belgium
Summer
Europe Festivals



 

Maeve Mackinnon
Returning to Canada as trio with Angus Lyon
March 2013
Alberta & BC

April Verch's Heartland Expedition

Please contact us for Heartland availability.

Tony McManus

 Please contact us for Tony's availability.

Kim Barlow

Please contact us for Kim's availability.

Annie Lou

Please contact us for availability.

mip

Please contact us for mip's availibility.

Steve Dawson's Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Project

Please contact us for availibility.

  Catch it February 4th at
Festival Place!
Press clip
 

Slide To Freedom

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Jenny Lester

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Thank you Canada Council for the Arts!

Focus 2012- 2013

Hot tips...who, where and when.
Bringing exciting artists to your community.

Hello again and hope all is going well for your shows in 2012. 
Near North Music has some great news and information about collaborations, Canadian and international artists and tours that may benefit your community.  Please email or call 250-847-5228 any time for further booking availabilities.

Hope to see some of you at Folk Alliance, Pacific Contact and Conference Trad Montreal!

Frank Hoorn

Exciting news! Welcome aboard...

Pharis & Jason Romero
BC, Canada
 

#1 album on the Folk Radio DJ charts for September 2011!

Lovely down-homey sounds from the backwoods of BC, the banjo-making Romeros live and sing in close harmony. Symbiotic in nature, of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings. 
 - fRoots : October 2011

It makes me think of the music I grew up on back in Kentucky. Great songs, and some really great playing too!
– Ricky Skaggs

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Van Dyke Parks & Steve Dawson
BC, Canada & California, USA

'THE BIG BROADCAST'
A musical escapade into the Golden Age of Radio. An evening of fine entertainment that will bear out William Faulkner: “The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.”

On shows like “The Big Broadcast”, the airwaves were bursting with new tunes each week, artfully arranged.  Great composers/arrangers emerged in the Golden Age of Radio.  Decidedly retro, our process of discovery promises to be a prism through which we see the present tense. 

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April Verch Band
Ottawa Valley, Canada
 

April Verch mesmerizes audiences with her fiddling virtuosity, flawless step dancing and soulful vocals and touring on average, 250 days a year.

On her brand new (8th) release, "That’s How We Run", the April Verch Band swaps hot licks with guests, like Riley Baugus, Dirk Powell, Bobby Hicks and Rayna Gellert.

2011 the trio toured in China and 2012 they'll return to Australia and 2013 Europe.

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Maeve Mackinnon
Scotland
 

New tracks from Maeve's second cd arrive daily and again she was nominated Gaelic Singer of the Year at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards 2011! 

Request your copy of the new cd!

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April Verch's Heartland Expedition
April Verch  Riley Baugus   Sammy Lind   André Brunet
 

April Verch, has added three exceptional musicians to her current touring trio in order to explore the historical connection between the traditional music of the Appalachians, Quebec and the Ottawa Valley. 

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Tony McManus
Ontario, Canada
 

Having played on Loreena McKennit's recent album Tony has been asked to tour Europe in March and April. The Celtic Footprints tour takes in 32 cities in 11 countries.

Tony is available solo and as a trio - with the Grainger brothers.

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Kim Barlow
Yukon, Canada
 

Introducing BLUE HIBOU From Kim... Hélène Beaulieu and I discovered recently that we have similar backgrounds in classical guitar, banjo, improvising and harmony-singing.
In this happy collision we play original songs and instrumentals for two guitars, two banjos, banjo and guitar, and sometimes uke. Supported and uplifted by Micah Smith on bass and lap steel.

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Annie Lou
Yukon, Canada
 

Annie Lou is currently recording the new album in Toronto. It’s sounding pretty hot, in an oldtimey way! Should be out in the world by April and a shining contribution to the burgeoning and vibrant community of oldtime  bluegrass players recording in Canada right now.

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the mip Power Trio
BC / Ontario

Look forward to some shows around Central-Eastern Canada.  We're talking Hamilton ON, Aurora ON, Montreal QC. The mip Power Trio is in the final stages of the new debut alb um! "Haggard and Bedraggled"       - MPT

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    Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Project
 

 The Mississippi Sheiks were on the forefront of blues and grassroots music in the ’30s and Steve Dawson along with 17 amazing musicians ( from Bruce Cockburn to Madeleine Peyroux to Del Rey to Jim Byrnes and many more!) have brought their music to us, once again, on record, on video and on festival and theatre stages. Guest musicians included in shows by arrangement.

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Slide To Freedom
Canada / India
 

Doug Cox
Salil Bhatt
 Cassius Khan

Stunning, groundbreaking marriage of the Blues and Indian classical music.
- Guitar Player Magazine.
 

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Jenny Lester
BC, Canada

2012 Teaching Bluegrass Harmony Singing and more at Wintergrass, Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Camp, BVFMS Guitar Camp,  Sorrento & Camp He Ho Ha.