Zheng player Xia is finishing her PhD in ethnomusicology at Memorial University but has also found time to release her first solo album, The Numinous Journey.

Singer-songwriter David Hart, originally from Labrador, has lived in Quebec for more than a decade.

Selina Boland of St. John's, who performs as an electronic musician under the name "Chalk," revisited a poem she wrote as an eight-year-old, about finding a chalk rock on the ground and doodling with it.

Quote the Raven's new album, Can't Hold the Light, was written while the folk duo was touring Canada, before the pandemic.