It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Atlantic Canada has been punching well above its weight in the category of folk music. We’ve been topping nomination lists at the Canadian Folk Music Awards and now representing a whole ten percent of the performing artists at Folk Alliance International. Folk musicians fill an essential niche as documentarians to an entire subsection of our culture, but they’re also a curious lot. Colourful and naturally nomadic, they’re hard to pin down. Sometimes it takes a certain amount of wrangling to commit those songs to posterity, and like a modern-day Lomax, Dylan Jewers set out on a mission with Big Turnips: Vol 1, to capture Atlantic Canada’s folkscape.  Continue reading Big Turnips: Dartmouth Compilation Aims To Preserve Local Folksongs →