Juno Awards

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…

Hip Hop Artist Taps Into Youth Mentoring

Hip Hop Artist Taps Into Youth Mentoring Student Benjamin McDonald plays steel pan for a school presentation after a TAP music seminarIn the music industry, he is the rapper/producer formerly known as Solitair and now goes by Silver, but outside music he’s known by his birthname Sheldon Pitt, the executive director of Toro Action Programs (TAP), a non-…

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…

The Bryan Adams Foundation Is Doing Remarkable Work

The Bryan Adams Foundation Is Doing Remarkable Work Bryan Adams at The Bread of Life home for children living with AIDS/HIV in St. Vincent - photo courtesy of The Bryan Adams FoundationBryan Adams was recently honoured with the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the 2010 Juno Awards in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, which he was unable to accept…