Musicians
Dean Schlabowske's Stay At Home Tour Raising Money For Feeding America, Horseshoe Tavern and Other Music Venues
Dean Schlabowske's Stay At Home Tour Raising Money For Feeding America, Horseshoe Tavern and Other Music Venues Dean Schlabowske — photo provided.Milwaukee, Wisc.-based singer, songwriter and musician Dean Schlabowske has been donating a portion of the tip proceeds from his live stream performances to Feeding America to this point, but Toronto’s…
Music Industry's #TheShowMustBePaused Bigger Than One Day Black Lives Matter Mission
Music Industry's #TheShowMustBePaused Bigger Than One Day Black Lives Matter Mission The initiative continues.While #TheShowMustBePaused brought much of the music industry to a standstill on “Blackout Tuesday” (June 2) in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other black people at the hands of police, its two…
INTERVIEW: Frank Turner Helps Indie Music Venues with Regular Livestreamed Shows
INTERVIEW: Frank Turner Helps Indie Music Venues with Regular Livestreamed Shows Frank Turner — photo credit: sceenshot. When British singer, songwriter and musician Frank Turner isn’t touring tirelessly around the globe, he’s likely recording, writing more songs or another book, or preparing to do one of those things. So it was a major shock to the…
Jeff Tweedy and Family Add Charity T-Shirts To The Tweedy Show
Jeff Tweedy and Family Add Charity T-Shirts To The Tweedy Show While many music artists have been doing sporadic live stream performances during the COVID-19 lockdown, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and his family have been staging them on an almost nightly basis from the basement of their Chicago house for something they call The Tweedy Show. The hour-long…
Lido Pimienta Puts Focus on Vulnerable Wayuu People in Need of Aid
Lido Pimienta Puts Focus on Vulnerable Wayuu People in Need of Aid Lido Pimienta promo shot, 2020 — photo: Facebook Colombian-Canadian singer, songwriter and musician Lido Pimienta launched her new Miss Colombiaalbum last month with a Pitchfork Instagram Live performance which helped to raise money, via a GoFundMe campaign, for Wayuu families in Colombia…
WATCH: Steel Panther's All Day Kitty Cam Encouraged Donations and Adoptions
WATCH: Steel Panther's All Day Kitty Cam Encouraged Donations and Adoptions Steel Panther (L to R): Stix Zadinia, Michael Starr, Lexxi Foxx, Satchel — photo credit: David Jackson. LA rockers Steel Panther raised money for cat rescue Heaven On Earth this past #GivingTuesdayNow by promoting an “all day kitty cam,” focused on the adorable four-legged…
Q&A: Musician Adrian Sutherland Talks About Attawapiskat, The Far North And COVID-19
Q&A: Musician Adrian Sutherland Talks About Attawapiskat, The Far North And COVID-19 Life in Attawapiskat, the isolated First Nation community on the western edge of James Bay, isn't easy. There was a suicide crisis in 2015-16 (an estimated 100 of Attawapiskat's 2,700 residents attempted to take their own lives during this time). A housing crisis in…
Post Malone's Nirvana Live Stream Raises $500K For UN Foundation’s Covid-19 Fund
Post Malone's Nirvana Live Stream Raises $500K For UN Foundation’s Covid-19 Fund Post Malone, April 24, 2020 — photo: screenshotPost Malone has earned lots of money for himself through his songs over the past five years, but the genre-bending artist raised more than (USD) $500,000 for the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund…
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble Raises More Than $6 Million
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble Raises More Than $6 Million Mike Myers was just one of many Canadians to participate in Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble — photo credit: screenshot. Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble raised more than $6 million for Food Banks Canada in the first 24 hours. The 90-minute multi-platform special was the most-watched non-sports…
Stars Galore To Participate in Historical Canadian Fundraiser Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Stars Galore To Participate in Historical Canadian Fundraiser Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble A star-studded all-Canadian lineup of artists, activists, actors, and athletes are joining forces April 26 in support of Food Banks Canada for special entitled Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble, the biggest multi-platform broadcast in Canadian history. Among the…
COVID-19 Concert Round Up: How Much They Raised, And Counting
COVID-19 Concert Round Up: How Much They Raised, And Counting Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello perform for iHeart Living Room Concert For America — screenshot. Amid the coronavirus crisis, major at-home fundraising concerts have taken place to raise funds for frontline workers, food security, and other related-issues arising from the the impact of the…
Major Global Record Labels Pledge Millions In Pandemic Fight
Major Global Record Labels Pledge Millions In Pandemic Fight photo credit: Kaikoro (iStock)The three multi-national major labels, Universal, Warner and Sony, have all taken significant steps to help their employees, as well as artists and songwriters, by dedicating funds to aid them during the covid-19 pandemic. How the monies are being allocated by…
Joan Jett Gibson Guitar Being Auctioned For MusiCares Fund
Joan Jett Gibson Guitar Being Auctioned For MusiCares Fund Joan Jett — photo courtesy of Gibson.An autographed, limited-edition Gibson Joan Jett ES 339 electric guitar is being auctioned to benefit the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. Only 150 of the wine red-coloured, hollow-bodied guitars have been made, so it should be a sought-after collectible by…
Alicia Keys Partners with CNN to Refocus New Song "Good Job" on Frontline Workers
Alicia Keys Partners with CNN to Refocus New Song "Good Job" on Frontline Workers Alicia Keys: photo courtesy of Sony Music Canada.Alicia Keys is joining forces with CNN for the world premiere of her powerful new song “Good Job" on April 23, which will be released the same day on streaming platforms. The multi-platinum-selling singer-pianist…
Shania Twain, Lady Antebellum, Many Others To Perform for Five-Night Country Music Charity Concert Series
Shania Twain, Lady Antebellum, Many Others To Perform for Five-Night Country Music Charity Concert Series The Canadian Country Music Association Foundation is joining with 20 country music performers for Canada Together: In Concert, a five-night TV at-home concert series to support the COVID-19 relief efforts by Food Banks Canada and Unison Benevolent…