Trespass Music is pleased to release Ken Dunn's brand new album "Anthology Volume 1" to radio worldwide on February 1, 2022. This album is the follow-up to recent albums "Ashes In The Morning", "Live In L.A.", "Wondrous…
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New & Coming Soon ~ February 1, 2023
Doug Cox & Linda McRae
Courtenay, BC, Canada | Nashville, TN, US | Folk
Releasing February 1, 2023
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The STORIES, the INSTRUMENTS, the SONGS: Two of Canada’s finest. You can see and hear the past and the present in their instrumentation, their stories and their songs.
With countless performances between , these veteran award winning recording artists each with a menagerie of stories to tell, a truckload of strings and things in their arsenal and preponderance of songs will have you glued to you seat listening to their every word, sometimes laughing, singing along, tapping your toes and humming their melodies for days afterward. This, their first album, was recorded over 3 nights in Spring of 2022 and mixed and mastered by Doug Cox at his Courtenay, BC studio.
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Craig Bickhardt
PA, USA | Folk
Releasing February 1, 2023
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"Outpourings" by Craig Bickhardt is the work of an artist who has lived enough and dreamed enough to know the weight of a simple lyric line and the power of a melody to summon angels and keep demons at bay. There's a wealth of experience in this music, tapping into years of writing and performing before crowds and in quiet solitary hours. But more than that, there's a send of un-restrained wonder that Craig has never lost since he first picked up his guitar. As he sings, he "lives for this" and he can't keep what it stirs in him to himself. Definance...acceptance...wanderlust...reconnection. These themes resonate within "Outpourings." The journey is one of eternal return, with a thousand detours and surprises. Let Craig show you what he's seen.
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In Rotation
Carla Ulbrich
Alt - Country | Americana | Humor
Releasing March 1, 2022
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“Twang,” an 8-song country EP from Carla Ulbrich, is a fun mix of hot picking, smart songwriting and dry wit, with tongue-in-cheek toe-tappers like “Is It Hot Enough For Ya?”and “Stop Tryin’ to Bring on the Apocalypse.” This album features some of the hottest players in the biz: 15-time IBMA Dobro Player of the Year Rob Ickes, 4-time Grammy winner Andy Leftwich on fiddle, Erik Halbig on electric guitar, Bob Harris (producer/engineer, bass and lap steel), and Bob Malone on piano.
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Gordon Thomas Ward
Maine - Folk | Rock
Releasing September 1, 2022
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Gordon Thomas Ward, an extraordinary and accomplished songwriter has created his fourth album, which is poised to surpass even his previous, charting albums with its masterful blend of artistry and insight. Composed entirely at his cottage on the coast of Maine and recorded with some of the most notable musicians in the business, Gordon’s adeptness as a storyteller, insightful lyrics, and variety of styles are on full display and will take listeners on a journey filled with honesty, imagery, and emotion that they’ll want to repeat time and time again.
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Ken Dunn
Hamilton, ON Canada | Folk
Releasing Feb 1, 2022
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From the classical music sounds of The Good Friday String Quartet to the driving folk rock of Gypsy Starfish, to duets with partner Anna Green and Denny Kennedy, alongside live solo guitar and dulcimer tracks, this anthology includes several previously unreleased, rare and live recordings as well as selections from many of Ken's studio album releases over the past 25 years.
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Ed Sweeney & Cathy Clasper-Torch
Single | Acoustic | Instrumental | Cover
Releasing March 28, 2022
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Ed Sweeney & Cathy Clasper-Torch combine forces to bring this well loved cover to life as only they can.
Cathy Clasper-Torch combines her love of all genres of music in her playing and improvising.
Ed Sweeney through his musical expertise, breadth of knowledge, and wonderful sense of humor, helps listeners come to understand the motivations, stories, and culture that have made us who and what we are today.
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Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys
Windsor, ON Canada | ALT FOLK | SOULFUL ROOTS | AMERICANA
Releasing Feb 1, 2022
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Award winning singer-songerwriter, Karen Morand backed by her
acoustic band, The Bosco Boys, took time with this latest project.
Teaming up with Juno nominated producer, Brett Humber, the album
explores haunting questions of belonging, loneliness, and addiction
with an eye to the unseen and hopefulness. Inspired by influences like
Tedesci Trucks, Ruthie Foster and Linda McRae, Morand leans into her
soulful roots, with echos of Motown and Southern rock. Together with
an impressive roster of Canadian co-writers and guest artists, this
project is a true collaboration celebrating this beautiful and broken life.
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Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys
Windsor ON Canada | SINGLE | ALT FOLK | SOULFUL ROOTS | AMERICANA
Releasing November 1, 2021
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"These lines tell a story..." Over time, life leaves its marks. It's nothing to hide but something to celebrate. Karen Morand and award winning blues artist, Suzie Vinnick do just that in Beautiful Scars reflecting on life lived and the beauty in the broken. Vinnick adds her unmistakably rich voice to the track.
Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys
Windsor On | Single | Alt Folk | Soulful roots | Americana
Releasing June 1, 2021
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With driving rhythms, soaring vocals and waling blues harp, Easy comes bouncing in evoking memories of a perfect summer road trip. Using the Detroit River as her muse, singer-songwriter, Karen Morand explores the arc of life, overcoming, letting go and leaving worry behind. The road ahead is unknown, but open and hopeful with the stereo turned up loud.
“Songwriter Karen Morand casts power to stir the storm in your soul and part the dark clouds hovering over your heart. Karen drives the engine through songs that clang, grind and chug with bold defiance, shaken faith and cryptic warnings; breathing steam around embraces of the wounded and outcast.” Songstress and CJAM radio host Allison Brown
“Karen Morand – My God, you can sing!!” Les Palango, station manager (“The Hawk”)
"Windsor based singer-songwriter Karen Morand writes wonderful warm earthy songs that speak to your heart and leave you begging to spend time in her company. Equally comfortable as a solo artist with a guitar or playing with her wonderful band "Bosco", her performances are definitely not to be missed." Jan Hall, host of Folk Roots Radio
Bruce T Carroll
CONNECTICUT | AAA | AMERICANA | FOLK ROCK | FOLK
Releasing September 1, 2021
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The First Bird To Sing…..I’ve been carrying this song around with me for 40 years, since the unexpected passing of my brother by his own hand during a tortured adolescence that carried him, in a flood of drugs and alcohol, to the shores of self-annihilation. That same flood carried me in the same direction for ten years thereafter, through three hospitalizations, a ruined career, a failed marriage and a damaged family, until, by the grace of God, in 1991, I washed up on a different shore, in a different land (metaphorically speaking), and set about putting my life in order. I have mostly succeeded, though certainly not without difficulty.
Bruce T Carroll
Connecticut | Americana | Folk Rock | Folk
Releasing July 15, 2021
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“Bruce T Carroll wrote Nobody Knows last year while on the road to campaign in the national election in the critical battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia….many hours behind the wheel driving through the small towns and sprawling fields of rural America afforded much time to reflect upon the dichotomy between the haves and the have-nots, the young and the old, and the mundane vs the ethereal …. Nobody Knows is his reflection upon the exalted natural beauty of America and the fragility of life herein…”
Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys
Windsor On | Single | Alt Folk | Soulful roots | Americana
Releasing April 1, 2021 ~ Industry links available March 25
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One more scroll, one more mouthful, one more guilty pleasure - there are things we do to deal with the hard parts of life. It becomes a problem when “just one more” isn't enough. Never Enough is a love song. It reaches into the heart of addictions and calls out the true soul of a person.
“a standout in the crowded field of solo singer-songwriters” Danny Sullivan (Blue Skies Music Festival)
”I believe she is on her way to becoming an artist who will be a force on the Canadian music scene.” platinum award winning musician Linda McRae
Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys
WINDSOR ON Canada | SINGLE | ALT FOLK | SOULFUL ROOTS | AMERICANA
Releasing September 1, 2021
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Coffee came hot and fast while singer-songwriter Karen Morand travelled through Hamilton, Ontario, the birthplace of Canada’s iconic coffee spot, Tim Horton’s. With it’s back porch, bluegrass bounce and catchy tune, it’s sure to stick with you over your next morning’s cup of Joe! Karen and the Boys are proud of their collaboration with boutique coffee roaster, 14th Coffee Co. as they launched their “Bosco Blend” in August 2021.
Loretta Hagen
New Jersey USA | Folk | Americana | Adult Contemporary
Releasing April 1, 2021 - Industry links available March 25
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"Not Now" is a song about hope and the will to survive. Award-winning singer-songwriter Loretta Hagen wrote the song during COVID-19 after hearing the heartbreaking stories of people fighting for their lives, alone in hospitals.
"Each day I would hear news stations report the heartbreaking stories of people alone in hospitals around the world fighting for their lives without a loved one at their side. I can only imagine the terror for them. So many stories of loss: loss of life, loss of jobs, homes, loneliness. Normal life simply gone. But in all of that overwhelming despair and loss, there were also stories of survival." L.H.
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Bruce T Carroll
Connecticut | Americana | Folk Rock | Folk
Releasing June 10, 2021
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"Grandfather Walks is an homage to my grandfather, a Frenchman aptly named Voltaire, as seen through the eyes of my mother, Francine, who passed away at the age of 99 about a year ago. Voltaire was revered by his daughter and sadly died when she was only 16 years old. He lived on in her heart and through her warm remembrances of him, which she imparted to me. The memories her father inspired fueled my loving and imaginative depiction of the old man, the patriarch, the bon vivant, world traveler, and loving father to three little girls. In this song, and in the mind's eye, the grandfather and the father become one, a powerful archetype of strength and goodness."
AaronNathans & Michael G. Ronstadt
Pennsylvania | Ohio | Folk
Releasing April 30, 2021
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APRIL 30 PREMIER ON NEW FOLK INITIATIVE
"a commentary on patriotism called “My Flag Too.” They have produced a video of the latter which the New Folk Initiative is honored to present exclusively today.
Directed by Nathans, the video has scenes of Independence Square in Philadelphia, a Gettysburg battlefield and cemetery, and an African-American veterans monument in Delaware. There are shots of families of color with flags and a few familiar folk faces. With memories of his father and grandfather, Nathans seeks to restore the flag from partisan purposes, singing “this flag is not a weapon.” John Platt - New Folk Intiative
Partington & Sweeney
Rhode Island | Folk
Releasing November 1, 2020
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Commonplaces is inspired by the centuries-old practise of commonplacing or recording wisdom and ideas for later recollection in notebooks that bear the name "commonplace."
Mary Lee Partington & Ed Sweeney tell stories of immigrants, farmers and factory workers during 19th & 20th century America, where self-educated mill girls earn their own keep, an orphan endures to tell her tale, where old ballads have taken root and where migrants go farther west.
Bruce T. Carroll
Connecticut | Americana | Folk | Singer Songwriter
SINGLE "Lift Your Head Up" | Release Date September 25, 2020
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After releasing two critically acclaimed albums in the last three years, “Ruckus and Romance” (2017, "devilishly brilliant", "intensely beautiful"/No Depression), and “Finding You” (2018, a "fine, intense commentary on America's past"/No Depression), Bruce T. Carroll has just released his new single, the timely and powerful anthem "Lift Your Head Up" to radio.
Ed Sweeney & Yang Wei
Rhode Island | FOLK | Instrumental | Traditional Folk
Releasing Feb 1, 2021
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Our introduction to one another was short and to the point: “Yang Wei, this is Ed. He plays banjo. Ed, this is Yang Wei. He plays pipa. You two should talk.”
Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt
Pennsylvania | Ohio | Folk
Releasing October 1, 2020
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“We think Aaron’s journalistic storytelling skills paired with Michael’s unique instrumental (and songwriting) chops will continue to spin gold for as long as they choose to work together — a lengthy time, we hope!"
Richard Cuccaro -Acoustic Live in NYC
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Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt
Pennsylvania/Ohio | Folk | Americana | Singer-Songwriter
Come on Sun (Shadow of the Cyclone) | Release Date SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
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**Shadow of the Cyclone" Album Release October 1
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Tia McGraff
Port Rowan ON | Americana | Adult Contemporary
Releasing Feb 1, 2021
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Tia's McGraff's new single, "What If" asks the bold universal questions. What if it's you? What if it's me? What if it's us? Who is going to lead us out of the desert and into the green of peace, harmony and agape? Edgy, inspiring, and powerful.
Jim Stanard
COLORADO | Folk | Country
Releasing October 1, 2020
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Singer-songwriter Jim Standard will release his sophomore album Color Outside The Lines, on October 16th. Teaming up again with Grammy-nominated hitmaker and producer Kip Winger and Afghn Whigs guitarist Jon Skibic, this effort also features the legendaary Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary) and his daughter Bethany Yarrow on two songs.
From social justice to history to humor, the common thread among Standard's songs is their resonance--emotional, musical, and melodic. Throughout the 11-song album, such indelible Standard originals as "Same River", "Witness Protection", "One Time In A Row" and "The Opium Wards" convey wisdom and curiosity, showcasing the artist's uncanny ability to pinpoint fundamental emotional truths.
Philip Scott Poli
Windsor Ont Canada | Folk
Releasing October 1, 2020
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"Chops! Philip Scott Poli has both real deal songwriting and musicianship chops. Audiences love him and embrace the emotion he lays into the lyrics and his stage presence. "One Sky" should be on your list of CDs to purchase and listen to on the radio this year!"
John Moran - Chair Programming - The Bank Theatre, Leamington ON
Ed Sweeney
Rhode island | holiday | Instrumental
Releasing November 24, 2020
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“When I was growing up, my dad was in radio. We lived in the suburbs, and the holiday music I grew up with was the popular music of radio, television and the movies.
Today we still know and sing those “pop” songs because they were the best songs of their time and now are part of our holiday celebrations.”
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We invite you to enjoy these holiday songs from our clients.
From our Musical Family to Yours -
Happy Holidays!!
Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt
Pennsylvania | Ohio | Chanukah | Folk
Releasing November 20, 2020
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"Rebuild," is a ballad, a metaphor song that compares the biblical story of Chanukah to our current world in which we need to rebuild after a period of fighting. It is not outwardly political. It does, however, reflect the current exhaustion we all feel.
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IN ROTATION
Gordon Thomas Ward
Maine | New Jersey | Folk Rock
Releasing May 1, 2020
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"When you think of the phenomenal story-tellers of yesteryear like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon or James Taylor, Gordon Thomas Ward would be in that same vein for Today. This multi-dimensional artist takes listeners on a lyrical journey on his new 2 Volume set called ‘Eiderdown’. Gordon Thomas Ward is setting the gold standard for singer/songwriters for generations to come." - Jimmy Rae - Skope Magazine
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Gordon Thomas Ward
Single - Four Angels | New Jersey/Maine | Folk Rock Release Feb 21 | "EIDERDOWN" ALBUM RELEASE MAY 1
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“Few make as immediate and impassioned an impact as Gordon Thomas Ward manages to do... Evoking a heartfelt sound reminiscent of Dan Fogelberg in particular.” — Lee Zimmerman, Goldmine Magazine
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Joanne Lurgio
RHODE ISLAND, USA | FOLK | SPIRITUAL | CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN - RELEASE SEPTEMBER 1
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“Lurgio has outdone herself. Her two originals and ten arrangements show her at her highest level of achievement. That she accomplished that while tackling more gospel and spiritual material shows she’s an artist on a high level of ability, a true musician who can utilize instruments, support players, multiple vocal techniques to put her message across.” Bill Copeland, Copeland Music News
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Ken Dunn
HAMILTON ON CANADA | FOLK
Releasing May 1, 2020
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“Tempered by experience and fuelled by passion, Ken Dunn’s music "sneaks into your feet, heart, and soul."
— John Apice, No Depression
"Highly evocative and intriguing" - fRoots, UK
"Music filled with the human spirit" - JIM MARINO FREE WHEELIN FOLK SHOW -CFMU Radio, Canada
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Gordon Thomas Ward
NEW JERSEY/MAINE | FOLK ROCK
SINGLE - STILL CALLING | NEW JERSEY/MAINE | FOLK | Release MARCH 13 | "EIDERDOWN" ALBUM RELEASE MAY 1
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"Long on stories and personal observations, Ward approaches things almost cinematically making these into song/movies that hold your attention in a different sort of way."
- Chris Spectre - Midwest Record
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Linda McRae
Nashville Tennessee USA & British Columbia Canada Folk | Americana | Country | Release Date OCT 1
Top Albums 2019 -
- #5 Ark of Music Top Albums
- #6 Fervour Courlee Favorite Roots
- #10 Top Albums 2019 Roots Music Report
- #15 Americana Highways Going to the Well- #17 Americana Highways Rough Edges & Ragged Hearts
- #7 Oct #15 Nov #37 Dec2019 #33 Jan 2020 #53 FEB 2020 Folk DJ Top Albums
23 weeks Top 10 RMR
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"Pure substance. Unbridled and fully realized talent. Sincere and stirring. WHOSE LOVECHILD…? The yin iteration of Orbison meets Dylan…" The ARK OF MUSIC
It's a WINNER!!" FOLK ROOTS RADIO with Jan Hall
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Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt
Pennsylvania | Ohio | FOLK
Carry A Tune (Single Release Sept 15)
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Pete Bernhard
Vermont | Folk
Releasing May 1, 2020
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THE DEVIL MAKES THREE’S Frontman/Guitarist Pete Bernhard is best known of his unbridled, barn-burning performances and driving roots, rock and bluegrass sound. However, with the release of his third studio album Harmony Ascension Division (Kahn)
May 1, 2020 to radio he is now showing a whole other side to the story.