Kenya
Nelly Furtado Q&A: Singer Talks Humanitarian Award, Free The Children, Susan and Mom
Nelly Furtado Q&A: Singer Talks Humanitarian Award, Free The Children, Susan and Mom Nelly Furtado with Kisaruni's inaugural gradution class, Jan. 2015 — photo credit: Free The Children.Nelly Furtado will be honoured with the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award at the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards, May 5, during Canadian Music…
Prime Time Comedy Writers Make All-Star Musical Charity Album
Prime Time Comedy Writers Make All-Star Musical Charity Album L to R: comedy writers Joel Moss Levinson, Rob Kutner, Stephen Levinson — photo courtesy of 2776."The line I always tell people is that this album is a thousand years of American history, past, present and miserable sci-fi future." Joel Moss Levinson is laughing audibly on the other end of a…
Shawn Desman Heading To Kenya With Free The Children
Shawn Desman Heading To Kenya With Free The Children Shawn Desman performs at 2012 We Day, Alberta — photo credit: Michael Rajzman.Shawn Desman has been participating nationwide in Free The Children’s massive We Day student gatherings since he first performed at one in 2010, encouraging a new generation of social activists. The Toronto singer-dancer, who…
Nelly Furtado's 'Spirit Indestructible' Tanks Help Build Girls School
Nelly Furtado's 'Spirit Indestructible' Tanks Help Build Girls School Nelly Furtado's Spirit Indestructible tank top also comes in white (photo credit: AR Solutions)Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado just released her new album, The Spirit Indestructible, a title inspired by a story in the book Me To We, but for the past few months Free The…
Lacuna Coil Helps Provide Water Wells Through Rezophonic Music Project
Lacuna Coil Helps Provide Water Wells Through Rezophonic Music Project Cristina Scabbia, co-vocalist for Italian metal band Lacuna Coil, has a water well in her name in the Kajiado area of Kenya from her contribution to Rezophonic, an ambitious collaborative album, whose proceeds go to the world renown African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF). “…
Rock Photographer MacNaughtan's Art Book of Africa To Result In 500 Child Sponsors
Rock Photographer MacNaughtan's Art Book of Africa To Result In 500 Child Sponsors If a picture is worth a thousand words, Toronto's Andrew MacNaughtan has unleashed an important monologue on behalf of World Vision with his brand new coffee table book, Grace: Africa in Photographs. The result of a three-week sojourn to Kenya and Tanzania taken by…
Carbon for Water is Solving Problems in Kenya
Carbon for Water is Solving Problems in Kenya A still from the film, Carbon for Water, by American directors Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez Carbon for Water is the name of both a life-changing program in Kenya and a 21-minute film about the project that was shown at Toronto’s Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival on Sunday afternoon.…
Canadians Send Aid For East Africa's Worst Drought In 50 Years
Canadians Send Aid For East Africa's Worst Drought In 50 Years Four palettes and 1.15 million tables and sachets were deployed to Kenya yesterday (July 28), the latest salvo to fight the drought in Eastern Africa. Provided by GlobalMedic’s Rapid Response Team in partnership with Toronto’s Somalian community, the latest emergency relief effort will provide more than 11.5 million litres of…
Rwanda Rising Up Album And Doc Features Hot Hot Heat, Billy Talent, Operation MD, And More
Rwanda Rising Up Album And Doc Features Hot Hot Heat, Billy Talent, Operation MD, And More Hot Hot Heat's Steve Bays and Muhizi Patrick from Rwandan group Holy Jadoves in the newly-built studio in KigaliFor musician/producer Darcy Ataman, founder of Canadian Artists for African Aid Inc., a.k.a. “Song For Africa,” what began as his “little contribution to…