Benjamin Dakota Rogers

About

The artist

Benjamin Dakota Rogers is a singer-songwriter, fiddler, guitarist, and storyteller based on his family's farm near Brantford in southwestern Ontario. He grew up around greenhouses, vegetable fields, festival travel, and fiddle music, and began playing an inherited family violin when he was young. Rogers released Wayfarer in 2014 and Strong Man's Address to the Circus Crowd in 2015, earning consecutive Canadian Folk Music Award nominations for Young Performer of the Year. Whisky & Pine followed in 2016, while Better by Now in 2019 expanded his mix of old-time music, bluegrass, country, blues, and character-driven writing. His songs often begin as short stories and draw tension from sparse string arrangements, tenor guitar, fiddle, and his rough-edged vocal delivery. Paint Horse arrived in 2023 and earned a 2024 JUNO Award nomination for Traditional Roots Album of the Year. Rogers recorded much of his subsequent work in a studio built inside a barn on the family property. This Ol' Way, released in July 2025, continued his focus on love, longing, hard choices, and rural landscapes across eleven songs. Current artist and venue profiles say he still lives in the barn, taps trees, and makes music on the farm, while professional listings identify Brantford as his hometown. Current concert listings include Ontario dates in 2026, confirming an active career rooted in the region.