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WATCH: JP Saxe Announces $500K from MusiCounts TD Community Music Program
WATCH: JP Saxe Announces $500K from MusiCounts TD Community Music Program JP Saxe made the MusiCounts announcement — photo credit: screenshot. Canadian music education charity MusiCounts enlisted "If The World Was Ending" hitmaker JP Saxe to announced the recipients of their $500,000 donation to 33 different community organizations across Canada from…
MusiCounts Donates $1 Million in Instruments to 95 Schools, TikTok Pledges To Help
MusiCounts Donates $1 Million in Instruments to 95 Schools, TikTok Pledges To Help Canadian music education charity MusiCounts, an arm of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences which produces the Juno Awards, have committing to donating over $1 million worth of instruments, equipment, and resources to 95 schools across Canada through the…
MusiCounts Donates $900,000 Worth of Instruments and Gear to 90 Schools
MusiCounts Donates $900,000 Worth of Instruments and Gear to 90 Schools Ninety schools countrywide have received musical instruments and gear worth $900,000 from the MusiCounts Band Aid Program. MusiCounts is the charity arm of the Canadian Academy of Recording Sciences (CARAS), which puts on the annual Juno Awards, celebrating the best in Canadian…
Juno Week Loaded with Charitable Opportunities For MusiCounts
Juno Week Loaded with Charitable Opportunities For MusiCounts bülow, MusiCounts executive director Kristy Fletcher; students of St. Paul Catholic Elementary School; Chris Campbell, London Tourism director of culture and entertainment for Tourism London and chair of the London Junos host committee; Theresa Mathers, music teacher, St Paul Catholic School —…
MusiCounts Provides $725,000 Worth of Instruments to 80 Schools
MusiCounts Provides $725,000 Worth of Instruments to 80 Schools Kids at Vancouver's Sir Alexander MacKenzie school receive $10,000 worth of instruments from MusiCounts — photo credit: screenshot. MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity associated with The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS, the organization behind the Juno Awards…
Celebrating 20 Years: Musicounts Impact, Memories and Emotions
Celebrating 20 Years: Musicounts Impact, Memories and Emotions Bob Ezrin (3rd from left) spearheaded the MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award and enlisted his friends The Rolling Stones to sponsor and present it in 2006 to Norm McIntosh (middle) — photo courtesy of CARAS. Some artists and members of the music industry have become a little tearful at…
God Made Me Funky, Elwins & Guests Lee Aaron & Simone Denny Headline First Standalone MusiCounts Concert
God Made Me Funky, Elwins & Guests Lee Aaron & Simone Denny Headline First Standalone MusiCounts Concert MusiCount's Vanessa Thomas, musician Jess Moskaluke and CCMA's Don Green (centre, back) with students from Kennetcook District Elementary School at the World Trade & Convention Centre, Summit Suite in Halifax, NS during CCMA Week — photo…
MusiCounts Aeroplan Mile Donations Receive Triple Their Value This Week
MusiCounts Aeroplan Mile Donations Receive Triple Their Value This Week MusiCounts Aeroplan Match Week — photo credit: CARASThis week is the perfect time for music supporters to donate their Aeroplan miles, those reward miles travelers earn from Air Canada and partner airlines, to a good cause. The period of Nov. 23-29 has been declared MusiCounts…
MusiCounts TD Community Music Program Funds 19 Community Music Groups
MusiCounts TD Community Music Program Funds 19 Community Music Groups Members of Ottawa's OrKidstra onstage at TD Place. CARAS president Allan Reid is pictured top right — photo courtesy of MusiCounts.The MusiCounts TD Community Music Program is providing a quarter-of-a-million dollars to give 19 community-based music programs across Canada access to…
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch Jamming at Toronto’s Sketch Working Arts for Street-Involved and Homeless Youth — photo credit: Sonya Reynolds.For a long time, the Canadian music industry’s charity of choice, MusiCounts, operated by the Canadian Academy of Recording…
Juno Awards Enlist Bruce Cockburn To Spotlight Green Initiative
Juno Awards Enlist Bruce Cockburn To Spotlight Green Initiative Bruce Cockburn, the Juno Awards 2013 Sustainability Ambassador — photo credit: Kevin Kelly.Folks can quibble until they’re blue over who wins what at the 42nd annual Juno Awards this weekend in Regina. But one area virtually impervious to criticism — yet largely invisible to the public — is…
MusiCounts TD Community Music Grants To Benefit Disadvantaged Youth
MusiCounts TD Community Music Grants To Benefit Disadvantaged Youth Recording artist Serena Ryder indulges students at a MusiCounts presentation at Woodbine J.H.S. — photo: Barry Roden.Canadian non-profit and registered charitable organizations with pre-existing music programs and those that want to introduce a music program to complement their current…
Sam Roberts Hopes Role As Junos Sustainability Ambassador Is Temporary
Sam Roberts Hopes Role As Junos Sustainability Ambassador Is Temporary Pictured at centre: Sam Roberts of The Sam Roberts Band "If David Suzuki could hold a tune, I'm sure they would've asked him," Montreal rocker Sam Roberts quips in an interview with Samaritanmag about his recent appointment by the Canadian Academy of Recordings Arts & Sciences as…
Simple Plan Hopes Humanitarian Award Will Make A Big Impact
Simple Plan Hopes Humanitarian Award Will Make A Big Impact Simple Plan performs acoustically at MAA benefit lunch — Photo credit: Steven Campbell and Adrian Diaz. Montreal pop-rock band Simple Plan, whose eponymous Foundation has made substantial donations over the past seven years to various child and youth related causes, will be honoured with the…
Neil Young To Receive The Allan Waters Humanitarian Award At Junos
Neil Young To Receive The Allan Waters Humanitarian Award At Junos Neil Young hasn't attended the Juno Awards in 29 years, but the Canadian music legend will be on hand to accept the 2011 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the 40th anniversary show, March 27, at Toronto's Air Canada Centre. Young, co-founder of Farm Aid and the Bridge School Benefit…