Cuff the Duke is a Canadian band from Oshawa, Ontario. They play a blend of traditional country and folk music with indie rock influences, and can be categorized as an alt-country group. In 2002 they released their first album, "Life Stories for Minimum Wage" on Three Gut Records. They spent the next few years touring with Hayden, acting as his backing band. In 2005 they released their second album, "Cuff the Duke" on Hardwood Records.

The line-up for Cuff the Duke has evolved, with...

Kim McMechan is a poet and award-winning singer-songwriter. Her writing is grounded in the details of the everyday; sidewalks, elm trees, strolls by the water. She balances her writing and her music between raising her two small daughters. She is perhaps best known for her songs with Vineyard Music Group where, from 1998 to 2002, she released twelve songs on four compilation albums which have collectively sold, to date, nearly 90,000 copies. Her independent career began with...

Some refer to it as "small town": it's not urban folk and it's not country, but maybe somewhere in between with a little bit of everything in it. Sara's music is drawn from her myriad of influences: from learning classical piano while living on a hippie farm and listening to her parents' 70's folk records; to studying world music at UBC.