Gathering to pay tribute to departing Warner Music Canada head Steve Kane and his wife, Debbie Rix, at Toronto’s famed Horseshoe Tavern on Friday night was a large chunk of the city’s music biz elite. They congregated in what seemed like the first large in-person gathering of the clan in almost […]
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Revered singer/songwriter/activist Sarah Harmer has introduced facts of an substantial 2022 North American tour. Her 2019 album Are You Absent acquired Juno and Polaris Prize nominations, but the pandemic prevented good tour assist for it until finally now. The tour launches with two exhibits at Peterborough’s Marketplace Corridor (Feb. 23 […]
CARAS and Slaight Tunes have announced the artists selected for the 2021/2022 Allan Slaight Juno Grasp Course program: Jesse Gold, Riell and Sebastian Gaskin. These rising musicians, picked by a Super Jury of songs business notables, will join Jhyve the 2021 winner of CBC’s once-a-year search to discover the next terrific Canadian artist, and acquire vital equipment to aid them turn into […]
The 2021 Polaris Music Prize Winner will be named tonight (Sept. 27) at 8 pm ET. Viewers can watch the announcement on CBC Gem, CBC Music’s Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube pages. More info on how to watch can be found here. Check the 10 albums short-listed for the $50K prize here. The nine runners-up from […]
Today (Sept. 23), on Global’s The Morning Show, The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) is inducting the rock classic, What About Love, one of the most successful international hits for the band Heart. The honour goes to the tune’s three Canadian songwriters, Brian Allen, Sheron Alton, and Jim Vallance, and the event features a special […]
The imagineNative Movie + Media Arts Festival, the world’s premier Indigenous competition showcasing film, online video, audio, and electronic + interactive media produced by Indigenous monitor-articles creators, has declared a robust lineup of tunes programming for the 22nd Festival, managing Oct. 19-24 in Toronto. The yearly concert The Conquer moves all over the […]