SUNNY’S WINNING THE WAR
The pandemic was hard. But Sunny War is making her best roots music ever
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Eleanor Collins: An amazing singer and dignified advocate for building community and social justice
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
An Afrofuturist take on life after the climate crisis using Black spirituals to sing the story
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: TORONTO’S MUSTAFA
Poet turned musician transforms grief and loss into music
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: TONY ALLEN + HUGH MASEKELA
African music legends deliver a tight and driving one-off album from a 2010 weekend session
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022: OUTSIDE CHILD ALBUM
Allison Russell’s first solo album is a wise reckoning about her childhood abuse
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: OUTSIDE CHILD LYRICS
The lyrics to Allison Russell’s Outside Child album tell the story of her childhood abuse in Montreal
RELEVANCE WITH SOUL
Montrealer and Haitian-Canadian Dominique Fils-Aimé shines on the final album in her trilogy exploring African-American blues, jazz and soul
YES THEY DO
The diverse music inspired by Black Lives Matter is bound by a profound shared grievance and a stance of never giving up
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: BLACK ARTISTS PLAY NPR’S TINY DESK
Meshell Ndegeocello is one of a dozen emerging and established artists playing NPR’s famous Tiny Desk Concert series
