Our Team

Mary Gauthier is a Grammy-nominated American folk singer-songwriter and author, whose songs have been covered by performers including Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Kathy Mattea, Boy George, Jimmy Buffett, Bettye Lavette, and more. She has won awards from the Americana Music Association, International Folk Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards, the GLAMA Awards, and the UK Americana Association. Her songs have been placed in film and TV, including “Yellowstone” and “Nashville”.

Her latest record, Dark Enough to See the Stars, returns Gauthier to the confessional mode similar to her breakthrough releases, “Mercy Now”, and “Drag Queens in Limousines.” Gauthier has never shied away from difficult self-exploration. Gauthier’s songwriting brilliance always offers beauty in sorrow, healing in loss, and a perspective only an artist of uncommon generosity can give.

www.marygauthier.com

Born and raised in Toronto, Andy Stochansky began tinkering with the family piano at the age of five. To stop him from making music with anything he could get his hands on, his parents bought him a toy drum kit. By the time he was in his 20s, he had become a touring and studio musician for Ani DiFranco. With DiFranco, Stochansky played 150 shows a year for seven years, until he felt it was time to start expressing himself beyond the drums.

He switched instruments, taking up guitar and piano, and released his solo debut album, RadioFusebox. Critics called it one of the best albums of the year. Andy continues to release albums and also began writing and producing for and with other artists. He resides full-time in Los Angeles.

Producer-engineer and songwriter Brent Bodrug is recently relocated back in Toronto, after spending a decade living in beautiful Prince Edward County making records out of his chapel-turned-studio, Sly-Fi Chapel. A former protégé of jazz great Oscar Peterson, Brent has had the opportunity to work with a multitude of international Juno and Grammy award winning artists. 

He’s written songs with a who’s who in the business including Alanis Morissette and Jenna Andrews (BTS, Noah Cyrus, Lennon Stella). He’s co-produced projects for accomplished recording artists such as Donna Grantis (Prince, Third Eye Girl) and Ken Tizzard (Watchmen, Thornley, Big Wreck). And he’s engineered and mixed recordings for marquee Canadian performers such as Larnell Lewis (Snarky Puppy), Laila Biali, and Mark Kelso (The Jazz Exiles). He’s also recently worked on Alec Baldwin’s podcast “Here’s The Thing”, and this past year scored the feature film “Stealing the Sky”. 

Brent’s passion project is with his 19 year-old singer-songwriter daughter and Honey Jam artist, Siobhan Bodrug. Together they write, produce, and perform having opened stages for the likes of Stars, Juno award winners Dizzy, Elliot Brood, and Joel Plaskett among others.  

Andrea England is fully immersed in both the creative and business sides of the music industry. She is an award-winning singer-songwriter, the founder, curator, and host of Toronto’s hottest songwriter series, Four Chords & the Truth, has released two critically-acclaimed albums – Lemonade and Hope & Other Sins, the latter of which was produced by Grammy-winning producer, Colin Linden – and has landed cuts and cowrites with a wide variety of artists, from Canadian Country Music Award winners, Meghan Patrick and Don Amero, to international Popstar/Pussycat Doll, Nicole Scherzinger (for which Andrea received a UK Gold Record). A member of the Board of Directors of the Songwriters Association of Canada, Andrea is also the Associate Director of Publisher Engagement and Strategy at the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency, a SoundExchange company, where she brings a unique and holistic perspective – as a creator, educator, and music business analyst – to support CMRRA’s publisher and self-published songwriter clients.

Andrea sits on the Dalhousie Arts Centre Campaign Cabinet, is a staunch supporter and charity partner of the Unison Fund, is a voting member of both the American and Canadian Academies of Recording Arts & Sciences, CCMA, ECMA, and WIF, has led songwriting workshops for the Honey Jam, GuitarWorkshopPlus, the Singing Competition, Elaine Overholt’s Big Voice Studios, the Canadian Musician’s Cooperative, is a Lyrics professor in Seneca College’s Independent Songwriting and Performance program and an active juror for the category of Songwriter of the Year in numerous regional and national organizations.

Andrea’s latest EP, Evidence of Love, was produced by Hill Kourkoutis and released in Fall 2023. Andrea earnestly describes her life as “all music – all the time.”

John Fellner is a multi-talented artist from Toronto, Canada, known for his work as a producer, writer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his work with UMC/Motown signee Emanuel, for whom he produced and wrote the critically acclaimed album Alt Therapy. The album was a nominee for Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards 2022 and had several major TV show syncs, including “Need You” and “Pillows” on HBO Harlem, Issa Rae’s show Insecure, and Diggstown.

John’s career has been marked by his ability to work with a wide range of artists, and he has recently collaborated with a number of artists and producers including Akeel, Kevin Kofo, Loony, Lavi$h, Liza Yohannes, Nikki Grier, Ezi, No Guidnce, Saint Harison, Susan Carol, Harmony Samuels, and Jon Vinyl. He produced and co-wrote the latest project Palisade of Jon Vinyl, which was a huge success.

John’s unique sound and ability to craft hit songs have earned him a reputation as one of the most sought-after producers in the industry. His work on Alt Therapy by Emanuel and his other projects have solidified his position as a major player in the R&B and Soul scene. He continues to work with a wide range of artists and is always pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the music industry.

Julian Taylor is a Toronto-based, award-winning independent singer-songwriter, radio host, and label owner. Over 20-plus years as the leader of Staggered Crossing, Julian Taylor Band, and his solo work, Julian established himself as one of Canada’s great troubadours. He has earned three JUNO nominations, a pair of Canadian Folk Music Awards, five Native American Music Award nominations, and a nomination for the Polaris Music Prize.

“Taylor is a unique and important voice on the Canadian roots-and-folk scene.”- The Globe & Mail.

“Among Canada’s most premier songwriters. Ultimately, Taylor remains unparalleled” – Spill Magazine.

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Amanda Walther (she/her) is a Juno nominated singer-songwriter and award winning composer from Toronto, Canada.

She has spent most of her career as half of folk-roots duo Dala; touring throughout North America for over 18 years. She has shared the stage with numerous artists including Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Jann Arden, Tom Cochrane, Stuart McLean of the CBC’s Vinyl Café and has performed in countless festivals like the New Orleans Jazz Festival and the Newport Folk Festival. Dala’s PBS Special ‘Girls from the North Country’ earned Amanda a Canadian Folk Music Award and a Juno nomination.

Amanda is also the singer in piano/voice duo Dizzy & Fay, performing original songs that echo timeless standards.

Her songs have been featured on numerous television shows in North America and most recently she has written the complete soundtrack for indie LGBTQ+ film ‘Walk With Me’ for which she was awarded Best Female Composer at the Toronto International Women Festival and Best Soundtrack at the Immaginaria Film Festival in Rome Italy.

www.amandawalther.com

Matt DeMatteo has achieved multiple gold and platinum sales for albums he produced for Rusty, Ashley MacIsaac, Big Wreck, Mobile and Edwin. He also holds a National Number 1 single award for co-writing the song “Out Of My Head” with Montreal band Mobile. Matt continues to write and produce his own music as well as co-writing with new artists and bands including The Forrest Williams Democracy. 

Andrea Ramolo is a long-time Canadian touring and recording artist, a multiple Canadian Folk Music Award nominee, an award-winning filmmaker and music video director, and an actor and educator. She was one-half of the successful folk harmony duo Scarlett Jane and more recently released her 8th studio record – an ancestral Italian electronic folk album with Italian band Kalàscima. In 2023, she won the Canadian Ethnic Media Award for Best Documentary for her first feature-length Canada Arts Council-funded music documentary THE SOUTH. Her co-direction on her own music video for FREE (ft. Kinnie Starr) was awarded Best Folk Video at the 2022 Canadian Independent Music Video Awards.

Andrea is presently working on her 9th studio record which she plans to self-produce while simultaneously sharpening her skills and love for producing and creating spaces for her colleagues.

Andrea is the artistic director of a brand new Toronto music festival called Our Music Festival – boasting a lineup that celebrates female and gender-diverse voices only. Having had a hand in producing large multi-artist and multidisciplinary events in the past, including a five-year run of a women’s music collective alongside a handful of her talented colleagues, coupled with multiple inspiring conversations that came out of an online meetup group of some of Canada’s most profound female and non-binary artists throughout the pandemic, Andrea decided she wanted to have a hand in helping to initiate more change for her peers in the music industry.

She was the host of her own radio show called Vintage Italy with Andrea Ramolo on ITOC Radio, has currently finished directing her first comedic short film as part of a great initiative to get more women and non-binary filmmakers onto sets, and continues to tour her music and documentary nationally and internationally.

www.andrearamolo.com