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It’s that time of year again, the time where you get to save money on concert tickets to some of this spring’s hottest concerts across Canada.

Before we get too deep into this review, I have a personal bias I feel might be worth admitting. I’ve been eager to see Hozier perform live for a number of years and personally believe that his debut album was one of the best mainstream commercial releases of the last five years.

With September comes cooler temperatures, the leaves start to change colour and fall from the trees, back to school sales are the big thing at pretty much every retailer and most people are looking back on the summer festival season that was…but in Ottawa there’s always one more big party before we put away our festival shoes and that party, CityFolk Festival, unveiled its 25th Anniversary lineup earlier this morning.

Earlier this month Lindi Ortega brought her unique country sound to Neat Coffee Shop Coffee in Burnstown, Ontario in support of her new album Liberty for an intimate evening of music and stories.

When Lindi Ortega went in search of some quiet last year, the award-winning artist was pleasantly surprised to find a voice she hadn’t heard in some time – her own. Amid sparse, atmospheric production, it’s precisely this voice – a combination of Ortega’s fatalistic perspective expressed with her evocative soprano – that grips your attention on a brand new EP, Til The Goin’ Gets Gone.

BOOTS AND HEARTS COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL BRINGS EVEN MORE TALENT TO BURL’S CREEK THIS SUMMER

We had a chance to ask David John Roberts of Washboard Union a few questions before they light up the CMT Music Fest stage in our CMT Music Fest Artist Spotlight. 

Wow… So CMT Canada just blew the doors off the summer.  With the likes of 2 of the LARGEST Names in Country set to take the Stage in Kitchener / Waterloo.  Eric Church and Zac Brown Headline the 2nd EVER CMT Music Fest.  Here is the line Up….

The Maritimes went country over the last few days as the best of the best of Canadian country music invaded Halifax. The party started early in the week with numerous showcase events put on by various labels and agencies to help showcase their stars and rising stars and it all was capped off with the Canadian Country Music Association Awards, the final of which was held last night at the Scotiabank Centre and aired on CBC Television.

There’s no denying that the summer of 2015 was an incredible one for live entertainment with stellar line-ups at veteran festivals and even the addition of a few new ones including Way Home, Bestival, Capital Country Fest @ Spencerville Stampede to name just a few. Well hold onto your hats because fall 2015 is going to be even hotter and it all kicks off later this week, here’s our look ahead to some of the hottest events and tours still to come before we say farewell to 2015.