Ganga Giri Melbourne, Australia Ganga Giri mixes red natural elements with fat tribal beats and dirty funky bass lines to create a unique tribal-technological deep earth dance experience. Explosive and pulsating, at times ambient and flowing, the music is a pumping percussive multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound. Ganga himself is…
Fresia and The Offsprings Beckwith, NS Fresia and the Offsprings are a Nova Scotia based family music trio consisting of Samuel Fresia (age 14) on percussion and vocals, Charlotte Fresia (age 12) keyboards, marimba and vocals and Eric Fresia on classical guitar and vocals. The trio performs a collection of originals and classics mixing blues,…
Freedom Danish and The Root Sellers The Root Sellers’ music is friendly to their audience’s intellect and their dancing feet. Over the past 8 years Root Sellers have been active in the urban music scenes across Canada, performing at numerous festivals and events across the country. This year has seen incredible success for the group…
Fred Penner Winnipeg, MB A Canadian, Fred Penner is a children’s entertainer who gives appearances throughout North America as well as performing on his Canadian children’s television show Fred Penner’s Place. Fred’s musical career practically began as soon as he could harmonize. As a precocious four year old, he would make up songs while travelling…
Fort Knox Five Washington, DC The FORT KNOX FIVE is a leading force in the international funk and breaks scene. Having released an arsenal of floor rocking singles and remixes, the FORT KNOX FIVE has the midas touch for producing heavy hitting records. Sid Barcelona, Jon Horvath, Rob Myers and Steve Raskin are the masterminds…
Flair Martin Halifax, NS Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia Flair Martin has been rocking dance floors across the Atlantic Provinces since 2003, with bassline fueled beats that range from booty shakin’ Jackin Chicago house, to big room bangin funky progressive. Flair has held residences at many Halifax hot spots including Tribecca, Evolution Cabaret, Speak Easy,…
Five Alarm Funk Vancouver, BC Five Alarm Funk is Vancouver’s own 11-piece Afrobeat-Funk-Jazz Orchestra. Since 2003, the band has brought their relentless grooves to clubs and many major festivals across Western Canada and are always asked to keep coming back. Intense horn lines and percolating Afro-Beat guitar combined with the interplay of four percussionists creates…
Farbsie Toronto, ON DJ Farbsie, founder of the Make It Funky Collective got deep into funk at Mo’ Gravy in london in 1996 prior to that his musical influences were formed in the jam band scene traveling to over 400 shows across North America. Having collected thousands of records over the years in 2000 He…
English Words Charlottetown, PEI On January 15, 2010, surrounded by a typically packed hometown crowd, Charlottetown, PEI band Smothered In Hugs made a liberating on-stage announcement: they were changing their name to English Words. Accompanying this proclamation was a brand new four-song EP, which the band personally handed out for free to each fan in…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Bernto Antigonish, Nova Scotia Eclectic is one of the few words you can use to define Bernto’s style. His tastes span a broad spectrum that includes elements of house, breaks, mashup, techno, electro and progressive, appreciating the deep, the melodic and the groovy as well…