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:
“You’ll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you’ve got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labour, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running underground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)