Folk Music Retailers and Distributors
Here are some places where you can purchase our CDs and other great folk music:
Ground Floor Music - www.groundfloormusic.ca
Ground Floor Music has the best selection of roots, world and traditional music
in all of Canada.
Liquid.com - www.liquid.com
Our albums can be purchased from our online store, but you
can also purchase and download individual cuts from Borealis albums online, exportable to WMDM-enabled and/or Liquid
enabled portable music players and burnable to supported CD drives. Prices are about $1.50 US per song. Search
on Liquid.com for the Borealis artist of your choice.
Angel Train - www.angeltrain.com.au
Australian site featuring acoustic music
COMA - www.coolname.com/coma
Canadian On Line Musicians Association, a website featuring
Canadian independent music
Elderly Instruments: www.elderly.com
One of the best places to find vintage instruments, also an
EXTENSIVE catalogue of new instruments, books, videos, CDs, you name it!
Festival Distribution - www.festival.bc.ca
Canadian distributor of roots music
Hard Yacka Records Records (Australia) - www.folktrax.com
Folk Trax has a specialist folk music shop based at the South
Australian Folk Centre
Portland America Distributing - www.portlandamerica.com
One of our U.S. distributors focussing on music from Nova
Scotia and beyond!
Ottawa Folklore Centre - www.ottawafolklore.com
An Ottawa institution! features acoustic instruments, books,
CDs & cassettes, classes and workshops
Thirty Below - www.trentesouszero.com
Great site for traditional French Canadian music
Folk Media
CBC Radio - www.radio.cbc.ca
Radio homepage for Canada's national broadcaster
CKUA Radio - www.ckua.org
Listener-supported radio network in Alberta featuring lots
of roots music
Dirty Linen - www.dirtynelson.com
Folk, world, and roots music magazine - includes artist and
venue listings
Folkdj-l website - folkradio.org
Website for folkdj-l, the internet listserv for folk music
djs
Folk Roots/Folk Branches - www.ckutfolk.com
Mike Regenstreif's weekly show on CKUT in Montreal
Back to the Sugar Camp - www.backtothesugarcamp.com
Steve Fruitman's weekly radio show on CIUT in Toronto
Penguin Eggs - www.penguineggs.ab.ca
Canada's Folk, Roots and World Music Magazine
Sing Out! - www.singout.org
A wonderful folk music magazine, celebrating 50 years of publication
Spire Folk - www.spirefolk.org.uk
British Folk music magazine
Friends of Borealis
Common Thread: Community Chorus of Toronto - commonthreadchorus.ca
A non-audition community choir that promotes social justice
by singing folk music from around the world.
Finest Kind - www.finestkind.ca/
A compelling trio based in Ottawa
Folk Legacy Records - www.folk-legacy.com
New England-based label featuring lots of great traditional
music
Eve Goldberg - www.evegoldberg.com
Borealis' ex-office manager is also a performing folk musician!
Richard Hess - www.richardhess.com
Richard is the webmaster for the webpages of Nancy White,
Marie-Lynn Hammond, and a number of other folk artists.
The Millstream - www.themillstream.com
Paul Mills' full-service recording studio
NorthernBlues Music - www.northernblues.com
Our office mates and sister label, featuring great blues
music from Canda and beyond
Rick Whitelaw - www.rickwhitelaw.com/
A fabulous guitar player who is also featured on our guitar
compilation "Six Strings North of the Border"
The Woods Music and Dance Camp - www.the-woods.ca/
A music camp for adults in the Muskoka region of Ontario.
Folk Music Organizations
Canadian Folk Music Awards - Prix de Musique Folk Canadienne - www.canadianfolkmusicawards.ca
Celebrating the breadth and depth of folk music in Canada
Canadian Society for Traditional Music - www.yorku.ca/cstm
Includes an online catalogue of Canadian folk music - lots
of hard-to-find stuff!
Folk Alliance Canada / Alliance folk du Canada - folkalliance.ca/fac
Official Canadian branch of the north american folk music
and dance alliance
North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance - www.folk.org
An organization for anyone involved in folk music
Northeast Folk Alliance - www.nerfa.org
The business and the pleasure of Folk Music
Ontario Council of Folk Festivals - www.ocff.ca
Find information about Ontario Folk Festivals here
Toronto Blues Society - www.torontobluessociety.com
A very active organization promoting the blues in Toronto
and beyond!
General Folk Music Resources
Calgary Folk Music Homepage - calfolk.ca
A resource on what's happening in the Calgary area
Festival Finder - www.festivalfinder.com
Listing of all kinds of music festivals
Folkmusic.org - www.folkmusic.org
Formerly Folkbook - a place to find all kinds of information
related to folk music
Maplefolk CD List - www.maplefolk.com
Very informative listing of CDs released in Canada
Mudcat Cafe - mudcat.org
Includes a lively folk music discussion group, as well as
the Digital Tradition database, a listing of thousands of lyrics to folk songs
Musi-Cal - www.musi-cal.com
Searchable database of live music - find out where your favourite
performer is touring, or find out who is playing in your area over a given time
Music for Robin - music-for-robin.org
A Celtic calendar maintained by Billy Hockett that lists
New England Celtic music events.
Northern Journey Online - www.northernjourney.com
Great resource on Canadian folk music