Shadow Scape Podcast

Episode 27 features Prince Edward Islands' very own Dyland Menzie. He’s performed alongside acts like City & Colour and Ron Sexsmith and at major events like Canadian Music Week and the Edmonton Folk Festival, and if he continues on his current trajectory of each new song, each new release eclipsing its predecessor, he’ll soon be impossible to ignore.

Episode 26 features Nashville based Indie pop trio Veaux. This podcast is a deep dive into process, passion, and perseverance from a band who has played the industry game hard and learned a great deal along the way. 

Today’s guest is a Canadian artist, Adyn Townes. We got the opportunity to meet Adyn at the Folk Alliance International Conference in New Orleans. His music sounds like Death Cab meets David Gray; high energy, but intimate, beautiful, and clever. He has been nominated for multiple Canadian music awards. His new single "Leave It Alone" is available everywhere now!

In this episode, we sat down with the powerhouse folk-songstress Ray Zaragoza who carries an acoustic guitar and a message. She was named ‘one of the most politically relevant artists in her genre’ by Paste Magazine. Raye performs her music all over the United States and Europe. Her music has been featured on Billboard, Popmatters, Earmilk, Democracy Now! and on numerous lists of the best modern-day protest songs, including those by Paste Magazine, What Culture, and Overblown. She has also performed live sessions for Paste, Daytrotter, and FNX.

In this episode, we sat down with English poet-actress-singer-songwriter Emily Mae Winters who is a fast-rising star in the U.K. Folk / Country scene. Her latest record, High Romance, reached No. 3 in the iTunes Country Charts and was listed in Folk Radio UK’s Top Ten Albums of the Year.

Today we are sitting down with a couple of incredibly wise & talented American singer-songwriters. The Grammy-nominated Mary Gauthier, who has found much well deserved praise and earned numerous awards for her album, Rifles & Rosary Beads and Texas-native Jaimee Harris, who has an amazing passion for music and writing beautifully honest & poetic songs. This podcast was recorded at the 2020 Folk Alliance International conference in beautiful New Orleans.

Band of acoustic instrumentalists featuring members of Punch Brothers, David Rawlings, Crooked Still, and A Prairie Home Companion. Hawktail calls Nashville, TN home.

Good Saint Nathanael is the new musical project from Kansas City, MO songwriter, Nate Allen.

But before starting his latest endeavor, Allen’s songwriting springs had origins in other oceans. His art has mainly been focused around Destroy Nate Allen, traveling hard and often for many years, logging more than 1,000 shows around the country since 2006. Over time, the project’s once quiet roots were traded for exuberant playfulness. But as life slowly shifted, the whispers of Nate’s heart demanded to be heard.

The SWEET REMAINS is Rich Price, Greg Naughton & Brian Chartrand.   It was a jam-session in a Rhode Island motel room back in 2008 that convinced them to form this band.   10 years, 4 studio releases, 35 Million Spotify plays, a feature film & incalculable miles later -- This unlikely trio continues to stare down the odds and make music with the same inspiration with which they began.

Gangstagrass is a dirty fightin', gator wrestlin', foot stompin' bluegrass-hip-hop project of Brooklyn based producer Rench, who has spent the last decade making gritty, soulful country hip-hop music that you will actually like.
Yeah, Gangstagrass did the theme song to Justified. Yeah, Rench and T.O.N.E-z got nominated for an Emmy for it. Yeah, this is real bluegrass pickers and real emcees making music. And yeah, they do it live too.

Episode 16 features three incredible folk artists from the UK, (Blair Dunlop, Luke Jackson, Jake Morley) all wrapped up into one amazing conversation. 

Reuben And The Dark are a Canadian indie folk band from Calgary, Alberta, led by singer and songwriter Reuben Bullock.

Bob and Una Walkenhorst are a father-daughter duo from Kansas City, Missouri. Bob Walkenhorst has been a fixture on the Kansas City and international music scene since the 1980's as lead singer and songwriter for the critically acclaimed band The Rainmakers. 2018 finds Bob collaborating with his daughter Una, a singer-songwriter in her own right, from her 2014 release "Scars", to her recent years as part of the New Orleans indie music scene. Their common love of traditional songs and 2-part family harmony is bringing about new songs, new visions, and new recordings.