Eccodek: Global Fusion from Ontario
‘Eccodek’s music shifts dreamily between music with roots in Mali, Turkey, Fiji, Nigeria, India, Canada and beyond.’ -CBC Music
Jaffa Road: Cross-cultural musical exploration from Toronto.
“Jaffa Road plumbs the history of diverse cultures for inspiration, reviving ancient wisdom in ways resonant with a cosmopolitan city like contemporary Toronto...there are ideas there that apply as much to the making of a community, and a world, as they do to making music." ~ Jim Coyle, The Toronto Star
Opium Moon
The four musicians of Opium Moon are a global intersection of powerhouse talent who work together with spontaneity and intuition, forging an exotic, richly articulated sonic journey that conjures ancestral pasts but uplifts and inspires with contemporary rhythms and rhapsodic melodies, masterfully performed.
Mélisande [électrotrad]
Mélisande [électrotrad] is a Canadian folk music group, who perform a contemporary spin on traditional Québécois folk music
Skye Consort & Emma Bjorling
Skye Consort & Emma Björling perform trans-Atlantic arrangements of songs & tunes from Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Scotland, England, Québec, Acadia, the USA, as well as original compositions.
Piqsiq: Inuit Throat Singing Sisters
With a style inspired by haunting northern beauty, sisters Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik are Inuit throat singers from Arctic Canada who blend their ancient traditional form with contemporary technology to create haunting soundscapes and improvisational compositions that change with every show.
Meriem Ben Amor
Meriem Ben Amor is a Tunisian-Canadian Singer: A unique voice with "Warm and Ethereal" tone that blends the richness of the eastern ornaments to the softness and clarity of the western music. Meriem is a pluri-disciplinary musician: she sings, plays string instruments and percussion.