Dig Your Roots
Dig Your Roots/Découvre tes racines is a Canadian series of compilation albums, released by the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA/ANREC) to promote new and emerging artists.
The project was launched in 2002, utilizing development funding that Corus Entertainment provided to the NCRA/ANREC as part of a benefits package relating to a major radio acquisition transaction.
Each year's Dig Your Roots compilation focuses on a particular genre of music. Submissions are judged by a panel that first chooses up to 100 artists to be featured through streaming audio on the project's website. It then chooses the 15 best entries for the CD compilation. The albums are also promoted by a series of live concert broadcasts which air on participating campus and community radio stations across Canada.
Read more about Dig Your Roots: Project 1: Hip Hop (2003), Project 2: Spoken Word (2004), Project 3: Electronic Dance/Danse électronique (2004), Project 4: Roots (2005), Project 5: Aboriginal/Autochtones (2006), Project 6: Creative Jazz/Jazz Créatif (2007)
Famous quotes containing the words dig and/or roots:
“I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they’d realise that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)