12 Songs for Your Playlist - December 22, 2012: The Gordie Sampson Songcamp edition

Each week, I recommend songs from Atlantic Canadian artists for your music playlist. Most are new songs. The artists are listed in alphabetical order. Clink on a the date to go to my CBC Music playlist for that week. You can listen to the songs there. While there look for some other songs by those artists. Listen, enjoy and then, if you can, support the artists by buying their music or going to see them live.

This week, the playlist consists of alumni and leaders from the Gordie Sampson Songcamp.  A number of the performers I have watched this past year are alumni from that songcamp. 

Gordie, from beautiful Big Pond, Cape Breton, has won numerous music awards, including a Grammy for "Jesus Takes The Wheel".   For the past three years, Gordie has hosted a week long song writing camp for young musicians.    Steve MacDougall (Slowcoaster) has been a leader at the camp. Carleton Stone has graduated from a participant to a leader. 

The Songcamp is "a way to nurture young songwriters from across Nova Scotia, give them access to knowledge and help them develop tools that will benefit their writing careers". 

The results, as you can hear on the playlist below, are amazing. 

December 22, 2012 Gordie Sampson Songcamp playlist (click her to go to playlist)

1. Breagh MacKinnon - Whisky
2. Carleton Stone - Dominoes
3. Dana Beeler - The Woodsman's Son
4. Dylan Guthro - Thinkin'
5. Gordie Sampson - Sunburn
6. Jenny MacDonald - A Hundred Reasons
7. Mo Kenney - The Great Escape
8. Molly Thomason - All Down The Highway
9. Natalie Lynn - Soldier
10. Seamus Erskine - Hefeweizen Highway
11. Steven MacDougall - Cruel & Unusual
12. Willie Stratton - Railroad Tracks
 

     

 

 Gordie Sampson is playing 2 shows at the Carleton in the new year.  January 2nd with Molly Thomason; and January 3rd with Dana Beeler

December 6, 2012

Many of the artists on this week's playlist will be playing in Halifax this week. Click here for a list of concert dates. I have also added the new hit single by Serena Ryder for your enjoyment. She's not Atlantic Canadian, but she is so talented she could be.

1. The Band Before Time - Dark and Stormy
2. Jenn Grant - I've Got Your Fire
3. Jennah Barry - The Coast
4. Jenny MacDonald - Speechless
5. The Modern Grass - Reuben's Train
6. repartee - Missing the Sun Part II (featuring Andrew James O'Brien)
7. Ria Mae - Under Your Skin
8. Rose Cousins - For The Best
9. The Trews - The Power of Positive Drinking
10. Willie Stratton - True North
11. Serena Ryder - Stompa

To see the "10 Songs for Your Playlist" for all of November 2012, click here.