CBC Presents: Road to the Junos The Redhill Valleys w/Ginger St. James Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM @ Bridgeworks

CBC Presents: Road to the Junos

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The Juno Awards are returning to Hamilton in March 2026, and to kick off Juno season, CBC is proud to present Road to the Junos, a six-day concert series featuring some of the best talent from the Hamilton region. Happening in downtown Hamilton across three venues and over two weekends this January/February, Road to the Junos will showcase a wide range of genres and local talent. These concerts will be recorded by CBC Music for broadcast on CBC Radio, CBC Gem and YouTube. You can find more information at cbcmusic.ca/junos.  All proceeds from this show go to MusiCounts.

The Redhill Valleys

With powerful, earthy harmonies, rootsy guitar licks and timeless lyrics, The Redhill Valleys emerged with a force onto the Canadian music scene in 2016. The four-piece Americana/Roots country-rock group, whose name pays homage to their hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, is comprised of band members Chelsea McWilliams (bass/vocals), Tim Allard (lead guitar/vocals), Danielle Beaudin (guitar/vocals), and Matt Soliveri (drums). The band doesn’t shy away from nostalgia and pulls influence from artists such as Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Neil Young, The Band and Fleetwood Mac. After releasing their two-part EP, Travel Well, in 2022 The Redhill Valleys’ single “Anymore”; garnered significant praise including winning first place in the American Songwriter Magazine lyric contest, and receiving regular airplay on SiriusXM’s North Americana, CBC Country, and Tom Petty Radio. Nominated for several awards, including Best Group and Best Roots Artists at the Country Music Association of Ontario Awards for three years in a row, the band has built a steady fanbase, extensively touring across Canada, with stops on prominent stages including Boots and Hearts Music Festival, Big Sky Music Festival, Cavendish Beach Music Festival, along with visits to the US and the UK. Passionate about bringing music lovers together, they are also advocates for music accessibility and are involved in numerous programs that provide opportunities for education in Hamilton including AIFEC, Girls Rock Camp, and City Kidz. The Redhill Valleys show no signs of slowing down. With the release of their reimagined take on The Wallflowers’ “One Headlight,” alongside original tracks like “Making Rumours,” “Rhinestoned,” “Ready To Roll,” “Make It Out Alive,” and their latest single “I Know You’re Gonna Leave,” the band continues to honour their influences while expanding their reach and pushing creative boundaries.

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Ginger St. James

Born to entertain, Ginger St. James’ songwriting and voice are as powerful as they are poignant. Powerful in a way where it’s hard to believe such a voice comes from a five-foot frame. Poignant in a way that the music and the message rings true through the test of time. Her repertoire blends country, rockabilly and blues with a sultry voice and commanding stage presence. Ginger St James brings a combination of high energy and incredible sweetness to the stage that is beyond comparison. She is tough, raunchy, has an undercurrent of humor and speaks to the concerns of folks who drink, dance, work two jobs and need to unwind at the first possible opportunity.  Songs of hard luck, hard love and hard drinking are delivered night after night channeling a wide swath of enduring musical influences, funneling them out in an intoxicating blend creating a sound all her own . At once the result is original, yet often as authentic as the source material.

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Julianna Riolino

Growth takes time, and it’s a dirty, fraught journey. We may decide one day who we want to be but it takes an abundance of effort to get there. Consider, for a moment, flora: each year, we tend to seeds and bulbs plunged into cold, hard ground. Then each spring, we till, nourish, and water, waiting for greenery to grow and appear. There’s hope that this work leads us to, say, lush peony bushes, draped and slunk over under the weight of their own elegance. Something beautiful, something special after all of that hard work. And so, we endure the labour of the transition that got us there. This liminal space of transformation is where we find singer-songwriter Julianna Riolino on her sophomore record, Echo In The Dust. The album arrives October 24, 2025 from Riolino’s own label, MoonWhistle Records, unfurling like a once tight bud into a languid blossom. By Riolino’s own admission, Echo In The Dust is markedly different from her debut, All Blue, released in 2022. She breathes new confidence into her performance—the sort that burns from belly to brain, roaring from her throat but landing sweetly on our ears. The Southern Ontario musician is soft as she is tough on these songs; seeing the benefit of laying down armour and splitting her heart open so that we may get a glimpse of our own. The songs on the record consider relationships of all sorts as the foundation for her awakening into a different creative self and person in this world; working through loss, grief, habits, and decisions she once made, seeking clarity in the past before leaving it there to move forward. The sentiment “you don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been” rings especially true on this album. What makes Riolino a compelling performer and songwriter on this record, and in her career, is how she inhabits past sensations and feelings, reliving and reviving them again to release. While a lot of these experiences are composites and memories, stitched together into 11 tracks, the impressions are of a real, vivid journey through an immense experience of rediscovery toward intuitive knowing. Riolino needed to unravel before she could clarify who she is now and who she’ll be next, and the result is Echo In the Dust, a beautiful sonic result of what it’s like to stay out of one’s own way.

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About MusiCounts

MusiCounts is Canada’s music education charity associated with The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and The JUNO Awards. MusiCounts is working to build a thriving culture of music education across Canada that prioritizes inclusivity, sustainability, and innovation. Established in 1997 by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in collaboration with media companies, record labels, and high-profile artists, MusiCounts understands that music transforms the lives of young people.

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