Six Shooter Records is excited to welcome Haylen McCarty to the team, recently hired as a Marketing Coordinator. The job includes working with Thirty Tigers, the US distributor and marketing partner, helping to develop the expanded licensing, co-writing and publishing ventures and increasing the department’s overall capacity.

Six Shooter Records is thrilled to announce Kim Temple as the head of Licensing and Publishing, a new position created to invest in and develop the company’s resources and business in these realms.

Interstellar Rodeo brings back the Market + Picnic, a space designed to showcase another realm of artistry and creativity. Introduced last year, the Market & Picnic area is located behind the stage and beside the North Saskatchewan River, and offers patrons a destination in-between musical performances to discover fine Albertan artisanship and handiwork.

Whitney Rose announces an extensive North American Summer Tour that goes from Texas Hill Country’s legendary Luckenbach Dancehall to the east coast, including, fittingly, multiple appearances at Hill Country Live outposts (Manhattan, Brooklyn and later DC) along the way. The tour also retraces Rose’s own career path, crossing back into Canada with stops in fabled Prince Edward Island, Rose’s actual birthplace, and Toronto, her musical origin.

Interstellar Rodeo’s official guide to the 2016 festival is now available for free for all Apple and Android devices. The iRodeo App offers all the details about this year’s wine pairings, curated by Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson, the many new and returning food vendors, as well as site information, FAQs, festival policies and more.

Watch Sam Outlaw perform songs from Angeleno, a Merle Haggard classic, and talk about the creation of his record on BBC Radio Scottland’s “Another Country with Ricky Ross.”

The day by day lineups have been released for both Interstellar Rodeo Edmonton and Winnipeg. Purchase tickets for the Edmonton festival here. Buy tickets to Interstellar Rodeo Winnipeg here.

California country artist Sam Outlaw makes a rare trip to the Atlantic side of the country with upcoming shows down the Eastern Seaboard this June.

Major congrats to The Strumbellas! Their single, SPIRITS, has officially gone GOLD in Canada and Italy. You can buy their brand new record, HOPE, on beautiful blue vinyl, CD, or digitally.

Interstellar Rodeo announces the 2016 Interludes, over 50% Albertan in origin (and 100% excellent from top to bottom). The Interlude performers work in, and in between, genres ranging from glammy-country to trippy-spirit-folk to neo-soul and swaggering-rock n’ roll.

“These aren’t your grandfather’s blues, but they show that the material is timeless, transformed by a musical vision that is true to its own time and place.” – No Depression. Check out Whitehorse performing “Pretty Thing” – originally written by Willie Dixon and performed by Bo Diddley.

Winnipeg is already buzzing about this year’s Interstellar Rodeo lineup, and now the festival announces two more major lineup additions: MARGO PRICE and WINTERSLEEP, as well as this year’s Interlude performers.