https://montrealbats.bandcamp.com/
Bats in the Belfry is an all female string trio hailing from Montreal. Through mutual friends and other musical projects, these three came together to create haunting, heartwarming and sometimes hilarious songs about the human condition

https://www.tomsavage.ca/
http://www.sarahbeatty.ca/
Tom Savage:
"Coming on like a rocking, later day Townes Van Zandt, Savage colors outside the lines with tales of those living beyond the margins. Every generation needs one who holds up the fun house mirror to the absurdities and this is a cult hero for our times"- Midwest Record Review
"we are dealing with a brilliant poet and troubadour" - Country Jukebox
"A contemporary version of a Canadian Bob Dylan" - Rootstime
"Recommended to those who still believe in Roots Rock power and poetry" - Lonestar Time
"Melodically the songs are jaunty and strummy pop while the lyrics can get kind of deep and dark- quite the juxtaposition and a perfect storm, you might say.
The songs on Everything Intertwined are pleasing to the ear, even a ragged rocker like Mean To Me, but what makes them truly beautiful are Savage’s lyrics." - The Rock Doctor, Gonzo Okanagan
Sarah Beatty:
“one outlaw women’s call for all to dance upon the everyday mythologies that bind us to our perceived identities and to be whoever the hell we want to be”
— A Journal of Musical Things
“Smart, idiosyncratic, generous songwork”
— Running After My Hat
“Sarah Beatty is a citizen of multiple sound territories as she weaves Blues, Rock, Jazz, Soul, and Country into her Roots music.”
— The Alternate Root
“Sarah Beatty’s vocals soar in every way”
— Sawdust and Gin

Bill Durst is an award winning Canadian blues rock guitarist and singer. With Joe DeAngelis as co-writer and bassist they have been touring since 2004. Together they have produced five albums. Although this is the current incarnation of their group, their earliest collaborations started 48 years ago. Bill and Joe started playing together in London, Ontario in 1970. The two high school friends formed Thundermug with James Corbet on bass and Ed Pranskus on drums. Joe sang and played guitar and Bill played guitar and keyboards. They entered Toronto Sound Studio with Terry Brown, who later produced Rush, and in 1972 released Thundermug Strikes. Its single Africa made it into the national top 30. Bill Durst later joined ZZ Top cover band Tres Hombres. He was also a member of The Brains, a group which released one album in 1980. Joe became involved in production work. His credits included being an assistant engineer on Meat Loaf's 1981 album Dead Ringer. Thundermug formally reunited in 1991, with original members Bill and James Corbet, as well as drummer Cory Thompson. The success of their album Who's Running My World in 1995 resulted in three charting singles. Thundermug broke up in 2001. Bill and Joe began to work together as a duo, playing with a variety of different drummers. They have been winning over audiences with their driving combination of Texas blues, psychedelic soul and British invasion. They have shared the stage with the likes of Aerosmith, Little Feat, Edgar Winter Group, April Wine and John Mayall – to name a few.

Bill Durst is an award winning Canadian blues rock guitarist and singer. With Joe DeAngelis as co-writer and bassist they have been touring since 2004. Together they have produced five albums. Although this is the current incarnation of their group, their earliest collaborations started 48 years ago. Bill and Joe started playing together in London, Ontario in 1970. The two high school friends formed Thundermug with James Corbet on bass and Ed Pranskus on drums. Joe sang and played guitar and Bill played guitar and keyboards. They entered Toronto Sound Studio with Terry Brown, who later produced Rush, and in 1972 released Thundermug Strikes. Its single Africa made it into the national top 30. Bill Durst later joined ZZ Top cover band Tres Hombres. He was also a member of The Brains, a group which released one album in 1980. Joe became involved in production work. His credits included being an assistant engineer on Meat Loaf's 1981 album Dead Ringer. Thundermug formally reunited in 1991, with original members Bill and James Corbet, as well as drummer Cory Thompson. The success of their album Who's Running My World in 1995 resulted in three charting singles. Thundermug broke up in 2001. Bill and Joe began to work together as a duo, playing with a variety of different drummers. They have been winning over audiences with their driving combination of Texas blues, psychedelic soul and British invasion. They have shared the stage with the likes of Aerosmith, Little Feat, Edgar Winter Group, April Wine and John Mayall – to name a few.

Bill Durst is an award winning Canadian blues rock guitarist and singer. With Joe DeAngelis as co-writer and bassist they have been touring since 2004. Together they have produced five albums. Although this is the current incarnation of their group, their earliest collaborations started 48 years ago. Bill and Joe started playing together in London, Ontario in 1970. The two high school friends formed Thundermug with James Corbet on bass and Ed Pranskus on drums. Joe sang and played guitar and Bill played guitar and keyboards. They entered Toronto Sound Studio with Terry Brown, who later produced Rush, and in 1972 released Thundermug Strikes. Its single Africa made it into the national top 30. Bill Durst later joined ZZ Top cover band Tres Hombres. He was also a member of The Brains, a group which released one album in 1980. Joe became involved in production work. His credits included being an assistant engineer on Meat Loaf's 1981 album Dead Ringer. Thundermug formally reunited in 1991, with original members Bill and James Corbet, as well as drummer Cory Thompson. The success of their album Who's Running My World in 1995 resulted in three charting singles. Thundermug broke up in 2001. Bill and Joe began to work together as a duo, playing with a variety of different drummers. They have been winning over audiences with their driving combination of Texas blues, psychedelic soul and British invasion. They have shared the stage with the likes of Aerosmith, Little Feat, Edgar Winter Group, April Wine and John Mayall – to name a few.

https://drihiev.bandcamp.com/
Industrial noise punk from Calgary, AB.

http://www.frankpatrickmusic.com/
FROM TEEPEE DWELLING TO BREAKFAST WITH BUCKMINSTER FULLER, FROM THE FORESTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA TO THE DESERTS OF ARIZONA TO THE BIG SUR COAST, FROM TORONTO TO SHANGHAI TO HAWAII, FRANK ANSWERS THE CALL OF CREATION AND SPEAKS FROM HIS HEART AND SOUL.
LOVE, LOSS, POLITICS, JOIE DE VIVRE… HUMANITY IN ALL ITS FOLLY AND BEAUTY SPRING FROM HIS DEEP, DEEP WELL. FRANK IS A TRUE ORIGINAL.
So who is Frank Patrick?
Frank has toured Canada, the US and Europe and has shared the stage with countless artists including Buffy St. Marie, Cyril Neville (Neville Brothers), Jonathan Best (David Byrne) and Dr. Timothy Leary (!). The former lyricist, co-writer and lead vocalist of Zombo Zombo, he also toured as part of the music ensemble in the Dora Award-winning ‘Sable/Sand’ with Dancemakers.
Zombo Zombo’s ‘Into the Market’ CD received extensive airplay in the U.S., charting on AAA and college radio, topping at #1 for 2 months on KMUD and affiliates in California. In 2007, Frank Patrick won the OCFF ‘World Music Song of the Year’ for ‘Believe’, and ‘The Man Who Walks Alone’ was chosen for the ‘Diaspora for Africa’ international compilation CD. His song ‘Boneyard Road’ was also runner-up for the 2008 OCFF ‘Blues Song of the Year’.

https://dopethrone.bandcamp.com/
"DOPETHRONE are the kind of humans that eat the blues for lunch and wash it all down with a giant jug of crust punch!
This is one of those bands that will have the crusty punks head banging right next to the stoners, both united under the bad sign of doom."
- CVLT NATION
Music Starts @ 8:30 sharp

https://mysterylover.bandcamp.com/
Mystery Lover is an indie/emo band formed in 2017 in Victoria, BC, Canada. After a year and a half of existence, which included an appearance on the Capital Ballroom stage at Rifflandia 2018, a BC Summer tour and close to 30 shows, they are set to release their debut LP “The Death Of Young Love”, May 4th, 2019. Recorded at Fat Dad Studios with producer Alex Bodman, and mastered by Ryan Schwabe (Hop Along, Modern Baseball, Algernon Cadwallader), the album is a both passionate and meditative, profoundly searching testament to the need for meaning and catharsis in the wake of what was a profound loss of romantic, personal and spiritual innocence.
Trying to fully feel through and make sense of the deep well of meaning and emotion that rushed into the void after the end of a deeply intertwined 5 year relationship, to try to fully understand and put to rest an old way of loving for good, and to process all that through the vessel of song, was the project at hand for songwriter Jonathan Amor.
Mystery Lover’s sound (given the invented genre designation of "Mystic Emo") calls on a diverse array of influences such as The Hotelier, Death Cab for Cutie, Bon Iver, Modest Mouse, Mount Eerie, American Football, Japandroids, and Leonard Cohen and is informed by sonic and poetic explorations of Eros/romance, archetypal symbolism and myth, their local urban and natural spaces and an oceanside view of churning emotional waters.