Deep Roots Music Cooperative
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The Deep Roots Music Cooperative was incorporated in 2003 by a group dedicated to developing and promoting the music scene in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.
Vision:
We envision an enduring community, celebrating and enriching our culture through music.
Mission:
To create meaningful connections between cultures, community groups, artists, and audiences by offering music-related events, programs, and an annual festival.
Our aim is to present regular concerts and educational musical events, nurture local musicians, support other local arts organizations and worthy community projects and produce the annual Canadian Deep Roots Music Festival. And while we're at it, have a lot of fun!
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Deep Roots Music Cooperative Limited is a registered non-profit organization with the Registry of Joint Stocks of Nova Scotia under the Co-operative Associations Act. Basic membership is free and you will receive our monthly news -e- letter. To become a registered voting member with full voting rights at our annual general meeting, you need to pay a $10 fee, or volunteer a minimum of 15 hours throughout the previous year, or provide a sponsorship/donation to Deep Roots, or buy a weekend pass to the Festival.
Visit our Membership page for more information.
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Deep Roots Cooperative News
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Canadian Folk Music Awards
Posted on: Dec. 8, 2011
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The Deep Roots Music Cooperative would like to congratulate Dave Gunning for winning two awards at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Taking home the 'Traditional Singer of the Year' and the 'New/Emerging Artist of the Year', Dave has shown that he is on his way to becoming a national/international star.
The Cooperative would also like to congratulate Molly Thomason for winning the 'Young Performer of the Year' award. A great showing by two wonderful Nova Scotian musicians.
Traditional Singer Of The Year
Dave Gunning – a tribute to John Allan Cameron
New/Emerging Artist Of The Year
Dave Gunning – a tribute to John Allan Cameron
Young Performer Of The Year
Molly Thomason – Beauty Queen
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Meet Songwriter and Musician, Jens Jeppesen!
Posted on: May 19, 2011
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We are excited that 2010 Music New Brunswick Award-winner Jens Jeppesen will be sharing the Blossom Blues Concert stage with Matt Andersen and The Hupman Brothers Band, 7 p. m. Saturday May 28th, at Acadia University Hall, Wolfville NS.
CLICK HERE for an interview article profiling Jens Jeppesen.
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The Blossom Blues Concert
Posted on: March 14, 2011
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Apple Blossom Festival weekend is the best time to be in the Annapolis Valley! And after Saturday's Grand Street Parade, the BLOSSOM BLUES CONCERT will be straight ahead. On May 28, 2011at 7:00 p.m. in Wolfville's Acadia University Hall, enjoy three times the entertainment!
Three super acts will be in performance: incredible bluesman MATT ANDERSEN (2010 International Blues Challenge winner, and 2011 Entertainer and Acoustic Act of the Year), The HUPMAN BROTHERS BAND (winners of the 2010 ECMA Blues Recording of the Year) and JENS JEPPESEN (nominated in 2010 as Folk Recording Artist of the Year)!
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2010 Valley Arts Award
Posted on: June 18, 2010
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Nominations for the 2010 Valley Arts Award are now being accepted.
Nominations are accepted until the end May each year. Nominations should be in the form of a letter or e-mail outlining the contribution the individual has made to the cultural life of the region. Please provide names and contact information for two references as well.
Send them to Wendy Elliott, The Kings County Advertiser, P.O. Box 430 Kentville, N.S., B4N 3X4 or e-mail welliott AT kentvilleadvertiser.ca.
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Emerging Artists Update
Posted on: June 18, 2010
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The Emerging Artists line-up has now been selected. The panel were delighted that applications came from as far away as Winnipeg and Connecticut as well as our local home grown musicians. The best have been picked and we hope you will be a part of discovering new talent. With a special guest appearances by Alice Stops, the show promises to be a great addition to the Mud Creek Days line up. Show starts at 7:30pm on July 31st at the Festival Theatre. Free will donation at the door.
Special thanks to our sponsors RBC, Magic 949, AVR, Annapolis Valley Events and Tourism, Culture and Heritage.
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Message from COOP President Peter Mowat
Posted on: May 14, 2010
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Welcome to our new website - we hope you'll like it.
For starters, let me fill you in on some of the recent activities of the Cooperative. The DRMC Board of Directors, who oversee all of the undertakings of The Deep Roots Music Cooperative, has recently been going through a Strategic Planning Process with assistance from The Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship and funding from ACOA. This project is on-going as we work to develop a multi-year business plan. As well, we have been diligently working to broaden the scope of activities that take place annually under the umbrella of the Cooperative.
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Chair - Colby Clarke
Vice Chair - Peter Mowat
Treasurer - Bernie Young
Secretary - Trish Gerrits
Kathleen Hull
Don Regan
Ernie Robinson
Joel Stoddart
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Beginning in October 2009 and continuing over a five-week period, members of the Deep Roots Board of Directors and several members of the Deep Roots Music Cooperative, participated in a strategic planning process. This was made possible by funding from ACOA and was facilitated by the Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship. The process is ongoing and will continue until a Business Plan has been created. Please click on the following link to view the Strategic Plan document that was created.
CLICK HERE to view/download a copy of the 2010-2014 Strategic Plan in PDF format.
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Look at a map of Nova Scotia and you will see we are almost entirely surrounded by water. Only the narrow strip of the Isthmus of Chignecto connects us, umbilic-like to the larger portion of our country. We are literally on the edge of the sea. The interior of the province is dotted and criss-crossed with thousands of lakes and streams, rivers and inlets. Nova Scotia is a place that water has shaped and defined.
Generations of immigrants from Europe and New England, joined the native Mi' kmaq here on a land that is both beautiful and brutal, cruel and benign. It is a land that beckons as a haven of romantic history, pastoral and serene. What was and is the appeal of Nova Scotia, a place that we fiercely love, proudly display, declare our own? Most of us know at least a little of the history of this wild, rugged, forested peninsula where the native Mi'kmaq lived and flourished moving from shore to inland according to the seasons. We know about the arrival of the early French settlers whom the Mi'kmaq befriended.
From our school days we remember the maps of Samuel de Champlain who explored this region from 1604-1607, the stories of the early French settlement of Port Royal, and Acadie, the French name given to the area that covered Nova Scotia and much of New Brunswick. We still bear the scars of the tragic Deportation of 1755 when the Acadians were expelled from their homes for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to the British monarch. There is admiration for our forefathers who came to this place and made their way, many of them destitute, having lost, given up or escaped another life. The Mi'kmaq, Acadians, Foreign Protestants, Planters, the Loyalists, both Black and White - our ancestors all. By their stories we feel rooted, proud of our heritage.
We only need look across the Acadian dykelands, to the rising majesty of Cape Blomidon, where Glooscap, the legendary hero of the Mi'kmaq lived, and beyond to the ocean to see what they saw; a place of surpassing beauty, changing throughout the seasons from frozen landscape to pastoral wonderland. Blomidon forms the easternmost end of the North Mountain, an ancient 160-kilometre range that protects the Annapolis Valley from the cold, wind and fog of the mighty Bay of Fundy and helps to create an ideal agricultural environment. The cliffs and weather-beaten crags of the Bay of Fundy shoreline are fronted by rocky beaches, seaweed strewn and wild. The tides beat in and out, an incredible disparity from high to low. We are blessed to live in such a place, where the landscape is infused and enriched by history, nature and the deep roots of our ancestors.
Visitors know there is something special here. They feel it in the hospitality they are shown, the easy-going attitude of the people they meet and what they describe as our 'laid-back' life style. They long to return, dream of making a life here. Many do. Those fortunate enough to have ties here, if living elsewhere, treasure those ties and come home as often as they can, vowing to permanently return someday. Most of us would never dream of leaving. It is our mission to share the stories and traditions of this land through music and song, to honour our place in the world and to invite new stories, new traditions, connecting with those who would celebrate with us.
For more information about the Deep Roots Music Cooperative, events or the festival, please contact us.
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