Musicians
Ex Child Soldier Turned Musician Rallies The World
Ex Child Soldier Turned Musician Rallies The World Peace activist Emmanuel Jal performs at Omnilife RallyFormer child soldier Emmanuel Jal, now an internationally renown musician and peace activist, is hoping the worldwide peace rallies taking place the past couple of days at Sudanese Embassies and other key locations will help focus attention on civilian…
Aglukark Song Benefits Suicide Prevention
Aglukark Song Benefits Suicide Prevention Award-winning singer Susan Aglukark and Collateral Damage Project founder Scott Chisholm speak at 2011 World Suicide Prevention Day concert in Ottawa - photo credit: Dwayne Brown Proceeds from the sale of a song Inuk folk singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark recorded in 2006 from her Blood Red Earth album will now go…
Ian Astbury Doc Examines 'Untold Massive Injustice'
Ian Astbury Doc Examines 'Untold Massive Injustice' Photo credit: Delissa SantosRock singer Ian Astbury has shed light on various aspects of indigenous culture throughout his 30-year career fronting The Cult and now he's zeroed in even more on a specific plight - the horrific history of Native American women. "How can you look away?" says…
Rockers & Rollers Play The Field For NXNE Queen & Beaver Cup
Rockers & Rollers Play The Field For NXNE Queen & Beaver Cup The Rockers vs The Rollers - musicians from such bands as Broken Social Scene, Flashing Lights and Bedouin Soundclash and media from such outlets as ET Canada, CBC and Report On Business - lace up their cleats, throw on their jerseys, and go on the attack again for the annual North By…
(RED) Campaign Helps In Target AIDS-Free Generation By 2015
(RED) Campaign Helps In Target AIDS-Free Generation By 2015 (RED)Rush To Zero, a fundraising and awareness campaign to help in the ambitious goal to deliver an AIDS-free generation by 2015, began today, June 1, and will last 10 days. The virtual elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV is part of the eight Millennium Development Goals that the…
Military Musicians Make Album With Glass Tiger's Alan Frew, Sam Reid & Guests
Military Musicians Make Album With Glass Tiger's Alan Frew, Sam Reid & Guests Many Canadian musicians who have gone over to Afghanistan to entertain the Canadian Armed Forces have returned with stories about the talented musicians they discovered in uniform. Sound of Freedom proves that point. Produced by Glass Tiger keyboardist Sam Reid, the…
Slash Doesn't Just Love Snakes, Appears in PSA with Betty White
Slash Doesn't Just Love Snakes, Appears in PSA with Betty White If Slash hadn't put all his heart and soul into music and becoming one of the world's greatest rock guitarists, perhaps he would've sought a career in zoology? He is a trustee of the private, non-profit Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) and earlier this year shot a commercial…
$200K Needed To Launch Emergency Relief Fund For Canadian Music Industry Workers
$200K Needed To Launch Emergency Relief Fund For Canadian Music Industry Workers (L to R) SOCAN's Betsy Chaly, Unison Benevolent Fund's Jodie Ferneyhough and Catharine Saxberg Members of the Canadian music industry now have somewhere to turn when they experience hard times. Operating under the slogan "Created by the music community for the music…
Love And Death's Brian Head Welch Joins Mocha Club
Love And Death's Brian Head Welch Joins Mocha Club Love And Death promo shot: Brian Guitarist-singer Brian "Head" Welch, who now fronts Love And Death, co-founded Californian nu metal band Korn in 1993, but the hard partying lifestyle left him addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs and alcohol. After getting clean and sober, he quit the multi-…
Jeff Healey Park On Way To Be Retrofitted For Disabled Children
Jeff Healey Park On Way To Be Retrofitted For Disabled Children Jeff Healey's wife, Cristie, and his father Bud Healey, at the late musician's eponymous park A coalition of late guitarist Jeff Healey's friends, family and fellow musicians is raising money to make The Jeff Healey Park in Toronto more accessible for disabled children by adding specially…
Band Train Launches New Wine, Chocolate For Family House
Band Train Launches New Wine, Chocolate For Family House Members of the band Train with one of the families that use Family House(L to R) Debbie Zachareas (mom), Jimmy Stafford (guitarist), Zack Drumm (had neuro-blastoma as a baby), Pat Monahan (frontman), Daniella Drumm (sister), Scott Underwood (drums), Mike Drumm (dad) Soft-rock band Train launched…
Slash Makes Poignant Video For Adam Levine Song To Aid Homeless Youth
Slash Makes Poignant Video For Adam Levine Song To Aid Homeless Youth Slash in Toronto - photo credit: Luther MalloryAce guitarist Slash rounded up Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club, Suddenly Susan), Lovely Bones' AJ Michalka, True Blood's Kristin Bauer and more, to act in a music video to raise aware about homeless youth in Los Angeles. "It's for the Los…
Company Launches Unique Matchmaking Service For Musicians
Company Launches Unique Matchmaking Service For Musicians 145 Live Solutions' Mike Bowman and Cathy Cutz team musicians, charities and corporations Toronto-based Michael Bowman and Cathy Cutz could blab your ears purple name-checking "synergy" and "metrics" and "low-hanging fruit" having worked for decades in media buying and marketing (Bowman) and…
GGGarth And 54-40's Osborne Make Dumb Bet For Charity
GGGarth And 54-40's Osborne Make Dumb Bet For Charity (L to R) Producer Gggarth Richardson and 54.40 frontman Neil Osbourne A pair of Canadian music icons are putting their pride and wallets on the line all in support of an innovative charitable foundation called Music Heals. But this isn't just your average wager. Not even close. At stake is as…
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…