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:
“Prepare your silken coat before it rains, and don’t wait until you are thirsty to dig a well.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Though of erect nature, man is far above the plants. For man’s superior part, his head, is turned toward the superior part of the world, and his inferior part is turned toward the inferior world; and therefore he is perfectly disposed as to the general situation of his body. Plants have the superior part turned towards the lower world, since their roots correspond to the mouth, and their inferior parts towards the upper world.”
—Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)