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Originally Posted by SaskScraper
We have to be really really careful about how much we water down country/rock music so that we can say that a square peg fits a round hole. The 3 Toronto's bands you mentioned, as close to Bluegrass/Appalachia as it gets in that city, really aren't Bluegrass/Appalachia at all.
here's a Finnish group that fits the genre slightly better than your examples.
https://youtu.be/e4Ao-iNPPUc?t=13
Again, as I said, music that i'm talking about is completely counter culture to what is media approved from the Canadian music establishment based in Toronto.
When music artists from Saskatchewan want to get signed, they go straight to where their music will get objectively viewed and approved, they go to a foreign country & straight to Nashville.
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I didn't mean they were bluegrass/appalachia specifically (though the Sadies can get close). They were just three country-ish/roots bands that came to mind.
Anyway, you can find lots of straight-up bluegrass in TO. Here's
One,
two,
three and there are lots more.
Here's a
list of popular bars where you can hear bluegrass. That doesn't even include a few I know in the far west end.
I'm not trying to be needlessly argumentative, but the idea that stuffy ol' Toronto wouldn't know what to do with bluegrass, or that playing and enjoying it is some act of rebellion against the cultural elites in big bad Toronto, is false. Six Shooter Records and Southern Souls are both record labels based in Toronto, to which some of the country's best roots musicians are signed, including performers from Saskatchewan and Alberta. This kind of music is common across the country, including Ontario and the east coast. There's nothing particularly western about this music at all, whatever the perception in the west may be. (Even historically; I mean, bluegrass
comes from Appalachia, not the west.)