Category: Open Spaces

Dallas Smith has won a lot of Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) awards. In fact, he has more hardware on his den shelf than you’ll find in aisle nine of your local home improvement store. His latest CCMA wins came on September 27 for Entertainer of the Year, Top Selling Canadian Album of the Year (“The Fall”) and Top Selling... Read More

Kelsi Mayne – Photo by Darren Eagles by Roman Mitz Open Spaces is not the gambling type but were it a betting page it would be inclined to place a large wager on Windsor native Kelsi Mayne winning the Rising Star trophy at this year’s Country Music Association of Ontario Awards (8th Annual CMAOntario Awards). You see, Kelsi has just... Read More

by Roman Mitz Sass Jordan is something of an enigma. The Birmingham England native relocated to Montreal at a young age and grew up in what was a burgeoning 70s music scene which included a no holds barred approach to glam, punk and progressive metal. There was no better musical place to be at the time and this was the backdrop... Read More

The first song on Johnson’s Creek’s self-titled debut EP is ‘Light Up The Honky Tonk’, and when the boys drop an early reference to Hank Jr.’s ‘A Country Boy Can Survive’, you get the picture of what they’re all about.  The group proudly declares itself to be the purveyors of ‘redneck rock’, and they wrote all of the tunes and... Read More

If you want to describe Dallas Smith’s chart success in western terms, you might say that he’s starting on his second six-shooter. You see, the JUNO, CCMA and Music Express Awards – winning artist recently earned his 7th Number One single with “Rhinestone World”, serving as the second consecutive chart-topper from his new EP “The Fall” and sixth consecutive chart-topping single... Read More