If you’ve been following the Jaimee Eat World series, you’ll want to know that this operation has found a new home. While we were covering new releases right here on crookedforest.ca, going forward to keep up with the project you’ll have to surf on over to the new official Jaimee Eat World website JaimeeEatWorld.com. The project takes up pretty significant bandwidth and it made more … Continue reading Jaimee Eat World Finds a New Home
This Saturday, September 20th, join the call for people, for peace & the planet by participating in the Draw The Line march and rally at Queen’s Park. For those outside of the Toronto area, head to https://drawtheline.world/ to find an event near you. What It Means: From rallies to strikes, marches to gatherings, this September 20th, communities will mobilize across the country and demand that Prime … Continue reading Draw The Line on September 20th
We’re just a week away from the official opening of the Time4Change art gallery presented by Youth Without Shelter. Now in it’s 14th year, the annual Time4Change fundraiser works alongside community partners to educate Toronto students about youth homelessness through fundraising and art activism. Where ART Meets ACTIVISM. Time4Change is a collaborative effort that blends the expressive and emotional influence of the arts with the … Continue reading Youth Without Shelter Present Time4Change 2025
Winterfolk Blues and Roots Festival returns for it’s 23rd year with another exciting and recklessly talented line-up of artists including Camie, Lynn Harrison, Michael Jerome Browne, Brian Blaine, Donné Roberts, Cathy Anne, Brian Morgan, Harpin’ Norm, Howard Gladstone, Laura Fernandez, Noah Zacharin, Sultans of String & so many more. This year the festival will be held across the rooms at The Tranzac Club from February … Continue reading Winterfolk XXIII Returns February 14th-16th 2025
After the difficult decision to cancel the annual Winterfolk festival, we were delighted to see that we will see the fest return after all with a special 1-day only Spring edition on June 8th, 2024. While this fest normally features a weekend packed full of great folk songwriters across a multitude of venues, this time it all goes down at the historic Redwood Theatre (1300 … Continue reading Winterfolk XXII
Avril Lavigne just announced her Greatest Hits tour (I’ll spare my commentary on that joke that writes itself), featuring pop-punk superheroes All Time Low and fellow Canadians Simple Plan. And that’s the part that gives me pause. It was only just a couple years ago when social media lit a fire under both Simple Plan and All Time Low and no it wasn’t for those … Continue reading Avril Lavigne Announces The Greatest Hits Tour And Why Should I Care?
The news was slipped into Neither Could Dylan’s first newsletter, so if you were quick to sign-up you’ve already heard, but if you missed the cut-off we’ve got the scoop. From the newsletter: I’m officially a published author and my first release is a children’s illustrated short story called The Music Man. I wrote this story a long time ago in my teens, it’s a … Continue reading Neither Could Dylan is Releasing a Music-Focused Children’s Illustrated Book
I love learning about my favourite bands and hearing stories about their lives and career, but I’m really someone that’s only really into it if it’s written by the artist themself. Enter Matt Pyror of The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams and his recently announced Red Letter Days. No, it’s not a rehashed boring recreation of the album of very similar name for … Continue reading Matt Pryor is releasing a Memoir
As with the rest of the world we have been horrified to watch the ongoing conflict play out in Gaza between Israel and Palestine. It is unfathomable that there continue to be attacks on Gaza and occupied Palestinian territories and for so many innocent lives to be impacted. You would think that we as a collective people would have learned by now that there is … Continue reading Canadian Petition for a Ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Written by: Jaimee Jakobczak I was pleased to meet and watch Chris Birkett perform for the first time when I volunteered as a sound tech for Toronto’s annual Winterfolk festival this past winter and today I want to share his song Everyone Deserves a Home which, as the title suggests, actively is calling for change within affordable housing here in Ontario, Canada. It’s not often … Continue reading Music Video Feature: Chris Birkett – Everyone Deserves a Home
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