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Vancouver Folk Music Festival: 19 July 2009 - Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC

By Joshua Kloke

With equal emphasis on exposing an array of artists and maintaining Vancouver’s status as a socially-driven and socially responsible place to be, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival was out of this world. [19 August 2009]

Rock Plaza Central: ...at the Moment of Our Most Needing

By Matthew Fiander

If desire was a bone poking through the skin on their last album, here it is a coating of slick sweat over the body, making for a sweetly tiring listen, as these songs pull you into their world and make you work their dusty land. [8 July 2009]

Rock Plaza Central: Are We Not Horses?

By Josh Berquist

Inspired by an elaborate concept, this breakthrough album is a homespun epic of humble origins and unbridled imagination. [11 April 2007]