Category Archives: Country, Bluegrass & Folk

Well after spending 3 days hunkered down in what might be the best city in Canada for Country Music we have a little something to share.   We have the 2nd of our CCMA posts with some great shots of the John Deere Green Carpet.  This was our first year having a presence on the carpet with Corey getting a chance to chat with the artists as they walked in.  Be sure to check our video of Corey chatting with everyone HERE.     However, Bill and James were also able to grab some amazing images of the artists making there way into Bud Gardens in London, Ontario.

It was an unusually stormy late summer Saturday night in Kingston and mere moments before the annual CFB Kingston Garrison Family Fun Fest, featuring Abby Stewart and Tim Hicks, was about to kick off the entire venue was evacuated due to a severe thunderstorm. Lucky for us the CFB Kingston Base Gym was a short hundred meter dash in the driving rain away.  A little under an hour later the rain stopped and the stage lights came on….it was showtime!

We will have 3 instalments of Boots and Hearts Images all focusing on individual photographers.  Our 1st instalment is covering the images Mike Highfield captured at Boots & Hearts 2016.

Atlantic Canada has a new Country Music Festival, Dooly’s Beach Blast, which has come and gone this past weekend.  The show took place at Parlee Beach, Shediac New Brunswick.  This event will not be forgotten and will talked about for sometime.  Some talk will be for good reasons and some for not so good reasons.

Much of the Sound Check team, myself included, has converged on Burls Creek this weekend for one of the most important events in the history of our organization, Boots and Hearts.

So it has been a red hot summer thus far in terms of Festivals we have covered since June 1st.  Not just hot shows but the weather has been smokin’ for most of them.   I though I might take a shot at a mid summer festival recap and just do a quick review on where we have been so far in this jam filled summer of 2016.

After 8 amazing days of music, Sunday was the grand finale of one of the biggest years for RBC Bluesfest in its 22 year history. 

After two epic nights of country, Rock the Park shifted gears in Downtown London’s Harris Park. New for 2016 was Virgin Fest 2016, sponsored by 97.5 Virgin Radio, in London. Now, I need to be honest here and say this night’s line up was not one I was really keen on. The line up included local performer, Ria Mae, Canadian rapper Classified, Nelly, and Flo Rida. As a guy who listens to mainly country music and some rock thrown in there, this was bound to be an interesting night.

Cool temperatures and wet weather couldn’t stop a good time at Cavendish Beach Music Festival 2016!

It’s hard to believe we’re already coming to an end of the 2016 edition of RBC Bluesfest. It feels like just yesterday that the lineup was announced and yet here we are going into the final day!