Just after teasing the imminent launch of a new album around the holiday interval, The Weeknd has disclosed new facts this 7 days. Entitled Dawn FM, the album will come out tomorrow (Jan. 7). An intriguingly various of contributors includes Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne, Quincy Jones, Oneohtrix Stage By no means, and Jim Carrey, and the cover art functions a photo of Abel Tesfaye as a a great deal more mature man. Check out the observe listing in this Billboard report. Dawn FM is the observe-up to The Weeknd’s fourth album, Following Several hours, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 in March 2020. We can properly predict this will be the to start with blockbuster album of 2022.
– To nobody’s surprise, The Grammy Awards announced yesterday (Jan. 5) its postponement of the clearly show prepared for Jan. 31. The Recording Academy assertion clarifies that “Just after mindful thing to consider and assessment with city and state officials, overall health and security specialists, the artist community and our several associates, the Recording Academy and CBS have postponed the 64th Once-a-year Grammy Awards Show. The overall health and basic safety of all those in our tunes local community, the stay audience, and the hundreds of persons who operate tirelessly to deliver our show stays our top precedence. Supplied the uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant, keeping the demonstrate on Jan. 31 basically has far too quite a few pitfalls. We seem ahead to celebrating Music’s Major Night on a upcoming day, which will be declared soon.”
– Around the getaway period, Toronto’s ArtHaus hosted a pop-up coffee and live performance series at Billy Bishop Airport for important travellers. The ArtHaus Cafe initiative helps with musician mental health programs by marketing “Artwork of Darkness” Propeller espresso beans as nicely as providing them an chance to carry out in a safe and sound placing. Artists highlighted included Morgan Melbourne, M1RZA, Meagan De Lima, Adria Kain, Joanna Majoko, Fethi Nadjem, Cole Allen, and Aysanabee. Art of Darkness beans can nonetheless be purchased online below.
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– For the initially time in Maple Blues Awards record, the Toronto Blues Culture has declared a tie for the Blues Booster of the Calendar year Award. The coveted award will be introduced to both Claude Cloutier and Terry Parsons at the Maple Blues Awards in June 2022. The Blues Booster of the Year honour goes to excellent contribution to the Canadian blues tunes marketplace.
Based mostly in Kitchener-Waterloo, Claude Cloutier organized the yearly fundraiser Blues on the East Side in Cambridge from 1999 to 2006. He is also a founding member of the Grand River Blues Society who then joined the Kitchener Blues Festival in 2007, in which he performs the responsibilities of VP and Creative Director. Conception Bay Newfoundland broadcaster Terry Parsons began his radio profession in 1977 at CHMR as an on-air information reader. He has hosted the Blind Lemon Blues radio demonstrate given that 2002, and promotes live situations in Newfoundland.
– Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard’s sexual intercourse assault trial has been postponed all over again due to Covid-19, the CP reviews. Hoggard was at first set to stand demo in Jan. 2021, but it was pushed again to April of that yr, and then again to this thirty day period. Now, as jury trials are all over again place on maintain owing to the pandemic, his situation has been delayed once more. Hoggard pleaded not guilty at his preliminary hearing to sexual assault leading to bodily hurt and sexual interference. The singer was arrested and charged in 2018 in alleged incidents involving a woman and a teenager.
– Canadian hip-hop artist, creator, Guinness Globe Record holder (longest freestyle rap), and motivational speaker Duane ‘D.O’ Gibson announces the 20-calendar year anniversary start of his motivational faculty tour titled Black Canadian 365: Still Pushed. The tour kicked off nearly on Jan. 4 at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Elementary College in Markham, ON, inspiring youth in a celebration of Black Canadian excellence. Gibson will launch the inaugural and virtual Black 365 meeting on Feb. 8 in aid of Black Background Month. The convention is expected to attract an viewers of above 20K students from university school rooms throughout Canada, exactly where Gibson will rap, motivate, and discuss to the contributions of Black Canadians all through record.
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– The Markham Jazz Competition Yearly Normal Conference will get area via Zoom on Jan. 9, at 1 pm. The party will incorporate a presentation of the 2021 money statements, the election of 2022 Directors, and Yr in Review highlights of the 2021 Digital Competition. Much more info listed here.
– Tremendous Earlybird Prices for the impending Display X Screen virtual conference conclusion nowadays (Jan. 6), Working from Feb. 8-10, SxS is a tunes + tech conference featuring 70+ speakers, 20+ classes, keynotes, B2Bs, and additional. Facts/passes below.
– Tunes Nova Scotia has established the Basic Schooling method to help artists and aspiring new music marketplace specialists build their skills and expertise. Applicants to MNS’s investment courses are demanded to total Simple Schooling sessions in get to be qualified to implement for its investment decision applications. As well it is obligatory for all 1st-time NSMW showcasing artists to attend the Meeting & Showcasing session prior to NSMW. Register here
– Veteran Toronto-based jazz pianist Bernie Senensky releases a new album, Really don’t Look Back, on Jan. 14, via Cellar Reside, and it options fellow luminaries Bob Mover and Sam Noto. Senensky has been a stalwart member of the Canadian and international jazz scenes for about 50 yrs, major his possess ensembles above the many years, and accompanying this sort of artists as Chet Baker, Moe Koffman, Elvin Jones, and Pharoah Sanders.
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RIP
Sandra Jaffe, a club owner who assisted maintain jazz at Preservation Hall in New Orleans, died on Jan. 3, age 83.
With her spouse, Allan Jaffe, she opened the club in New Orleans in 1961 to showcase regular jazz. Defying improvements in musical manner, it has been open ever considering that.
Preservation Hall — which serves no liquor, seats 50 or so on six benches and experienced no air-conditioning right up until 2019 — has celebrated jazz for 60 a long time in a town greatly regarded as its birthplace. It defied segregation rules in the early 1960s. It survived Mr. Jaffe’s death in 1987, and it survived Hurricane Katrina. The coronavirus pandemic shut it down, but it reopened triumphantly in June.
The Preservation Corridor Jazz Band obtained the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush in 2006. The ensemble was cited for “displaying the unbreakable spirit of New Orleans and sharing the joy of New Orleans jazz with us all.” Mrs. Jaffe, who accepted the award with her son Ben, remained involved in the Corridor until eventually not long ago, even though she no more time experienced a hands-on function.
“There is no problem that Preservation Corridor saved New Orleans jazz,” George Wein, the impresario who generated the Newport Jazz Competition and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Pageant, told Vainness Truthful in 2011. Master additional in this New York Periods obituary.
