Calgary Folk Music Festival

by J. Ashley Nixon February 28, 2018 1

Calgary’s got Soul in the City

Soul Town Cow Town became Soul Town on Saturday night at the Calgary Festival Hall. The Inglewood venue, in partnershipContinue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon December 7, 2017 2

Maybe the idiom, all hats and no cattle, comes from Texas. Some might have heard it uttered from theContinue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon December 6, 2017 2

Dirty Country Point camera on the face, on a farm track. Hitch up the cello and start whistling. That’s theContinue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon November 25, 2017 1

Fainting show stopper It might be the first time that playing doom soul in public resulted in fainting. That wasContinue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon November 23, 2017 1

It was a throw-back to my days, well-passed, of working in a dark room, developing photographs the old way. Chemicals,Continue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon October 25, 2017 5

Hanging from the Rafters From a look upwards at the exposed, pretty ceiling of Calgary’s Festival Hall in Inglewood, Calgary,Continue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon July 30, 2017 2

As the end of July comes around, it’s time once again for the Calgary Folk Music Festival to turn overContinue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon July 28, 2015 1

Solar Powered Sunday at the Calgary Folk Music Festival Back in the early days of the festival, Stage 6 wasContinue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon July 26, 2015 0

Saturday at the Calgary Folk Music Festival Rock is a centre stone (sorry!) of many musical types: there’s jazz rock,Continue Reading

by J. Ashley Nixon July 25, 2015 0

Second day of the Calgary Folk Music Festival My pick of the bands from the second day of the festival wasContinue Reading