A year before Oliver Schroer’s untimely death in 2008 the Canadian fiddler/composer met the superb Irish flautist Nuala Kennedy at Scotland’s Celtic Connections Festival. That meeting was the genesis for the recording of Enthralled an album of original music that is adventurous, played with passion and humour while showcasing these two tremendous talents. Please read more here.

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With Appellation D’Origine Controlée La Bottine Souriante continues to amaze with their energy, joie de vivre and superb musicianship. And as the title suggests this is music that could only be grown in Québec.
Borealis is enormously proud to be presenting La Bottine’s music for the first time. Please feel free to check out the new album here.

“The tightest and most exciting band of any nature anywhere…”
fRoots, UK

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Michael Jerome Browne – The Road Is Dark

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After “This Beautiful Mess” which was a true R&B/Country tour de force, Michael Jerome Browne has followed up with a return to his blues roots with “The Road Is Dark” The new album features Michael on National guitar, 12 string guitar, banjo and fiddle. and this array of acoustic instruments creates the perfect backing for [...]

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A Brilliant New Album From The Once

Just back from the UK and Ireland, and following on a tremendous summer playing Canada’s major folk festivals, The Once have delivered “Row Upon Row Of The People They Know”. The new album follows their award-winning self-titled debut CD with ten new songs that go deeper and in some ways reflect even better the collective [...]

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New From James Hill “Man With a Love Song”

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“One of the world’s top composers for the ukulele and probably the best player on the planet”  Raif Mair We can’t argue with Raif, and when the man who has dazzled listeners with his virtuosity on ukulele turns his mind to song-writing  he continues to amaze. “Man With A Love Song” contains a dozen great [...]

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Borealis Welcomes The Mighty Popo

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We are delighted to announce that The Mighty Popo has joined the Borealis family of artists. Popo’s first acoustic album “Gakondo” is written solely in Kinyarwanda, Rwanda’s only indigenous language. The title means origins or tradition in Rwandan, and on the recording Popo has taken a journey of discovery to his Burundian/Rwandan roots. Released independently [...]

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Paul Mills To Receive Estelle Klein Award

Each year, the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals (OCFF) honours the work of an individual or group that has made significant contributions to Ontario’s folk music community. The award is named after Estelle Klein, a long-time advocate of Canadian folk music and one of the early founders of the folk festival scene in this country. [...]

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CONGRATULATIONS to THE ONCE

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All our best to Newfoundland Trio and Borealis Recording Artists THE ONCE who were awarded Group Recording Of The Year  at this year’s East Coast Music Awards closing gala in Charlottetown. Geraldine Hollett, Andrew Dale and Phil Churchill have been impressing audiences with their amazing vocals and warm presence wherever they go and this award [...]

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Félicitations Le Vent du Nord

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Our congratulations to Nicolas, Olivier, Réjean and Simon on winning the 2011 JUNO award in the Roots/ Traditional Group category. All of us at Borealis raise a glass and toast Le Vent du Nord for this well deserved award. Bravo Boys!

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Borealis adds Stan Rogers Catalogue

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Borealis is extremely pleased to add the recordings of Stan Rogers to our catalogue. The latest “The Very Best Of”  contains 16 of Stan’s most loved songs chosen by Ariel Rogers and Stan’s long-time producer Paul Mills.  All of the songs here have been remastered and the results are truly stunning. All the rest of [...]

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Folk Award Honours

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The 2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards took place in Winnipeg Nov. 20th and our heartiest congratulations go to BEYOND THE PALE for “Instrumental Group Of The Year” and “Pushing The Boundaries”, to THE ONCE for “Emerging Artist Of The Year” and “Traditional Album Of The Year” and LE VENT DU NORD for “Ensemble Of The [...]

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Stealing Genius – New Music From Ron Hynes

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It is always cause for celebration when Ron Hynes releases a new album. Celebration and anticipation it must be said as Ron is one of the finest songwriters this country has produced, and always we wait with baited breath to hear any new song from this gifted writer. A number of the new songs on [...]

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