Category Archives: Featured Artist

We continue our Boots and Hearts Emerging Artist features with Stouffville, Ontario’s Amber-Jo Bowman. Music has been a part of her life for as long as she can remember. It is a deep passion which brings her an abundance of fulfilment, joy and purpose. Amber’s wish is to touch people’s hearts with her lyrics and melodies, hoping they will find their own meaning and connect with the stories she tells through songs.

Our next feature artist is hoping to go full circle. Dylan Burk was born in Tennessee and now calls Milton, Ontario home. Winning the Boots and Hearts Emerging Artist Showcase would bring Dylan back to where he started.

Each year Boots and Hearts showcases some of the worlds biggest and best country artists on their stages for one weekend in August. But Boots and Hearts, and it’s partners, also play host to one of the most reputable emerging artist competitions in the country.

Tebey, Tim Hicks, The Reklaws and the James Barker Band are just a few of the artists that have the Boots and Hearts Emerging Artist showcase to thank for their success. This year we’ve got 8 more artists vying for the coveted title and over the next week or so we’re going to introduce you to each of them.

We’ve been covering the Boots and Hearts Emerging Artist Showcase pretty much since it first started. It’s been an annual tradition to interview and feature each of the finalists, so you get a chance to know them before they become household names like previous finalists Tebey, Tim Hicks, The Reklaws and The James Barker Band to name just a few of those who once fought for the prestigious annual title.

Last month we managed to catch up with our friends Jenna and Stuart Walker, aka The Reklaws at two events. Watch the interviews below.

Glass Tiger and Corey Hart turned Rogers Place into a time machine and really big house party!

When planning a festival it’s easy to take for granted that everything will go as planned and that the entertainment and logistics will all fall into place. Booking a festival is already a difficult task, that task becomes even more difficult when something doesn’t go as planned. For the organizers of Festival Country Lotbinière the worst case scenario happened this year when tragedy struck for their headliner just a week before the crowds were set to arrive.

Reigning CCMA Group of the Year Cold Creek County are no strangers to the summer festival circuit. From coast to coast to coast Cold Creek County have performed at some of the biggest stages in the country and have toured and performed with acts like Old Dominion and Dallas Smith.

If you grew up in the 80’s you knew very well that you could wear your sunglasses at night thanks to Corey Hart.  He has sold over 16 million records worldwide and scored nine consecutive US Billboard Top 40 hits.

JUNO and CCMA award winning country band, James Barker Band, are set to release their sophomore EP Singles Only on Friday May 24 with Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. We figured, what better way to feature our next 2019 Festival Country de Lotbinière artist?