Musicians
Michael Bublé Song For 6-Year-Old Autistic Boy Makes Him Blow A Kiss
Michael Bublé Song For 6-Year-Old Autistic Boy Makes Him Blow A Kiss Michael Bublé — photo credit: Warwick Saint.Every day is a beautiful day now for a 6-year old autistic boy from Calgary who received a personalized song on YouTube from Canadian crooner Michael Bublé. “Griffin not a lot rhymes with Griffin / But I still love you so much/ You’re so…
Rock Singer Gets First Hand Experience Helping Orphans in Ukraine
Rock Singer Gets First Hand Experience Helping Orphans in Ukraine Alex Zen of Invasions with a very happy winter camper in the Ukraine — photo credit: Hannah Wrzesnewskyj.When Toronto-based band Invasions aren’t creating music they describe as a "lost soundtrack for a Quentin Tarantino movie,” they volunteer with Help Us Help The Children (HUHTC), a…
Environmental Electro-pop Band Fevers Don’t Wag Their Fingers
Environmental Electro-pop Band Fevers Don’t Wag Their Fingers Otesha Project enthusiast and Fevers frontman Colin MacDougall hits the trails in Ottawa — photo credit: Mélanie Broguet.Ottawa-based electro-pop quintet Fevers, particularly its frontman Colin MacDougall, doesn’t believe the world is too big to tackle and change. The environment is his top…
Rapper Hollywood Floss Uses Urban Arts To Help Houston Youth
Rapper Hollywood Floss Uses Urban Arts To Help Houston Youth Rap Camp participants D-Risha, MC; host BBC; Hollywood Floss, MC at a Houston concert — photo credit: Jay Tovar)Southern rap artist and school teacher Hollywood Floss has been simultaneously building his music career in his native Houston, while giving back to the community and he’s chosen two…
Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches Sign Field Trip Ping Pong Table
Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches Sign Field Trip Ping Pong Table This ping pong table, backstage at Toronto's Field Day music festival, has been signed by various artists on the bill and is up for auction on SPiN Toronto — photo credit: Andrew Williamson.A high-end ping pong table signed by Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Chvrches and many of the…
Canadian Musician Sponsors Ride For Unison To Help Launch Emergency Fund
Canadian Musician Sponsors Ride For Unison To Help Launch Emergency Fund Unison Benevolent Fund co-founder and president Jodie Ferneyhough will be participating in the Ride For Unison fundraiser in Toronto, June 12 — photo from Facebook.If a professional Canadian musician hits a deer while on tour and lands up in hospital unable to work, if a self-…
Downie, Feist, Harmer, Mansbridge, Egoyan, Thompson Aid Waterkeeper
Downie, Feist, Harmer, Mansbridge, Egoyan, Thompson Aid Waterkeeper The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie shares his water story at the 2014 Waterkeeper Gala, presented by RBC. Photo credit: George Pimental Photography.We drink it, bathe in it, swim in it. So let’s take care of it. The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie co-hosted and curated a fundraising gala that…
EDM Dance Party Meets 5K Marathon in Charitable Electrodash
EDM Dance Party Meets 5K Marathon in Charitable Electrodash Electrodash 2013 at Toronto's Canada's Wonderland — photo courtesy of Electrodash.Of all the reasons someone might choose to run a 5K marathon — personal challenge, fundraising or fitness goals or some combination of the three — it’s hard to imagine many saying “For the chance to join an awesome…
R&B singer Jully Black to host Kick It Up for Kidney Cancer Boot Camp
R&B singer Jully Black to host Kick It Up for Kidney Cancer Boot Camp Jully Black will be donning her work out gear to lead the Kick It Up for Kidney Cancer Boot Camp — photo from Facebook.Maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle has been important to R&B/soul singer Jully Black since her high school years, so she should make a great host for…
City and Colour Writes About Dead Victims of Texas Killing Fields
City and Colour Writes About Dead Victims of Texas Killing Fields City and Colour's Dallas Green — photo credit: Dustin Rabin.When musicians’ profiles and success begin to grow, often they become ambassadors for a specific charity. If they become excessively wealthy, sometimes they’ll start their own foundations. City and Colour’s Dallas Green, whose four…
Bruce Cockburn Records PSA, Adds Suicide Prevention To Causes
Bruce Cockburn Records PSA, Adds Suicide Prevention To Causes (L to R) Manager Bernie Finkelstein hands Bruce Cockburn the 2014 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award — photo credit: Grant W. Martin.Bruce Cockburn, who recently received the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award, has added another cause to his life-long interests — suicide awareness and…
Rude Band MAGIC! To Play First Charity Show But Music Is Their Cause
Rude Band MAGIC! To Play First Charity Show But Music Is Their Cause (L to R) MAGIC! drummer Alex Tanas, bassist Ben Spivak, singer Nasri Atweh and guitarist Mark Pelli — photo credit: Chapman Baehler.MAGIC!, the Los Angeles-based Canadian transplants whose reggae-pop song “Rude” went double-platinum in Canada before their debut album comes out in June,…
Song Contest To Record With Sam Roberts Spotlights Issues in Africa
Song Contest To Record With Sam Roberts Spotlights Issues in Africa Producer David Bottrill records 2013's My Song For Change winner Trevor Kidd — photo courtesy of Make Music Matter.Aspiring pop stars hoping to balance dreams of glory with something more meaningful should consider entering the My Song for Change contest, currently accepting submissions…
Idan Raichel Explains How His Music Creates Cultural Understanding
Idan Raichel Explains How His Music Creates Cultural Understanding The Idan Raichel Project has featured more than 95 artists from all over the world on recordings and in concert — photo from Facebook. Idan Raichel is a multi-platinum recording artist in his native Israel, who has collaborated and toured with India.Arie, performed at the Nobel Peace…
The Trews and Bedouin Soundclash To Play Late Agent's Memorial Show
The Trews and Bedouin Soundclash To Play Late Agent's Memorial Show Hanging out: (L to R) the Late Paul Gourlie and The Trews frontman Colin MacDonald — photo courtesy of the Trews.The Agency Group, one of Canada’s biggest booking agency, has put together a memorial concert May 10 at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern, a year after their colleague and friend…