The number of emerging Canadian musicians hoping to make it big by touring America has all but vanished

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A music conference aimed at Canada’s folk-music industry will see more than 900 delegates descend on a hotel in Ottawa this week, but for the first time in more than two decades, none of the featured guests or invited delegates are representing the United States. Article content

“Normally we would invite a lot of guests from the U.S. in terms of buyers and speakers, and this year we haven’t,” said Rosalyn Dennett, executive director of Folk Canada, the organization behind the annual Folk Music Ontario conference, which runs Oct. 15-19. Article content Article content

“It’s a really inaccessible market for the majority of our members, so it’s just not an area of

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