Juno Awards
Juno Awards Affiliated Music Education Charity Announces Funding to 78 Schools
Juno Awards Affiliated Music Education Charity Announces Funding to 78 Schools MusiCounts' students with brass instruments — photo provided by Strut. Canada’s MusiCounts music education charity will distribute $874,500 in musical instruments and equipment to 78 schools schools across Canada as part of the latest funding round of its Band Aid Program.…
Bud Light Dreams Donates $1-per-ticket to MusiCounts
Bud Light Dreams Donates $1-per-ticket to MusiCounts Bud Light Dreams Music Festival — photo credit: screenshot from promo video. Bud Light Dreams Music Festival is carrying on a tradition for the third year in a row: $1 per every ticket sold for this year’s two-day fest will be donated to MusiCounts, the music education charity associated with the Juno…
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…
Juno Awards and Juno Week Events Help Foster Young Musicians
Juno Awards and Juno Week Events Help Foster Young Musicians Juno Cup 2017 — Rockers look on during skills competition, TD Place, Ottawa — photo courtesy of CARAS. To casual observers, the Juno Awards are star-studded, televised hoopla lionizing Canadian music and the business that supports it. But a closer examination of the Junos — and its attendant…
WATCH: Buffy Sainte-Marie's Acceptance Speech for the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award
WATCH: Buffy Sainte-Marie's Acceptance Speech for the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award Screenshot of Buffy Sainte-Marie as she accept the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award.Musician and career-long Indigenous rights activist Buffy Sainte-Marie was given the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the Juno Gala Dinner & Awards, April 1 in Ottawa, by…
Shawn Mendes, Lights, Tom Cochrane, Kardinal Offishall, Shawn Hook Join Others in Sign-Holding Kidney Foundation campaign
Shawn Mendes, Lights, Tom Cochrane, Kardinal Offishall, Shawn Hook Join Others in Sign-Holding Kidney Foundation campaign Shawn Mendes — photo credt: Cathy CutzNothing gets the word out as far and wide as social media. Attach a celebrity to your message —making their diverse followers a de facto workforce via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter shares — and…
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…
Magic! Sponsors Music Teacher of the Year, Rock School's Steve Sainas
Magic! Sponsors Music Teacher of the Year, Rock School's Steve Sainas The members of Magic! with Teacher of the Year, Steve Sainas (centre), at the 2015 Juno Awards — photo credit: CARAS\iPhoto.Why are some students switching schools or, in some cases, making a daily two-hour round trip to attend Terry Fox Secondary School in Port Coquitlam, B.C.?…
Rock Legends Rush’s Hearts To Be Honoured At 2015 Junos Awards
Rock Legends Rush’s Hearts To Be Honoured At 2015 Junos Awards Rush will be honoured with the 2015 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at this year's Juno Award gala dinner — photo courtesy of Rush.comThe members of legendary Canadian rock trio Rush have been raising funds or awareness for various causes since their very first shows at Toronto’s Maple Leaf…
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…
Tom Cochrane Speech: Humanitarianism Is About The Practice Of The Ethics Of Kindness & Compassion
Tom Cochrane Speech: Humanitarianism Is About The Practice Of The Ethics Of Kindness & Compassion Musician Tom Cochrane collects the prestigious Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the 2013 Juno Awards — photo credit: CARAS/iPhoto Inc.Tom Cochrane’s Juno Award honouring his humanitarianism was given out last month during a private, industry-only gala…
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…
Tom Cochrane: Humanitarian Award Recipient Recounts Poignant Experiences In Africa
Tom Cochrane: Humanitarian Award Recipient Recounts Poignant Experiences In Africa Tom Cochrane in Kenya, 2006.Noted Canadian singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane has been a lot of places and seen a lot of things, but one of his most poignant experiences occurred when he spent two-and-a-half weeks traveling through Africa on behalf of World Vision in 1989 that…
Tom Cochrane To Receive Allan Waters Humanitarian Award
Tom Cochrane To Receive Allan Waters Humanitarian Award Tom Cochrane In Indonesia in 2009 on one of his many humanitarian missions with World Vision.Rock singer-songwriter Tom Cochrane, best known for his hit “Life Is A Highway” and a highly respected 40-year veteran of the Canadian music industry, has long be involved with philanthropic causes,…
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…