Musicians
Band The New Pornographers Asks Fans To Contribute To ALS Society
Band The New Pornographers Asks Fans To Contribute To ALS Society Members of the Vancouver band The New PornographersThe CD booklet inside Canadian indie pop-rock band The New Pornographer’s latest album, Together, has a message “in memory of Lynn Calder — please contribute to the ALS Society of Canada.” Lynn is singer-keyboardist Kathryn Calder’s mother…
Don’t Pounce On Lilith Fair; It’s All Good
Don’t Pounce On Lilith Fair; It’s All Good Sarah McLachlan (photo credit: Raphael Mazzucco)When the Choose Your Charity angle of Sarah McLachlan’s resurrected Lilith Fair Tour was announced late March, some bloggers were ready to pounce. A few had discovered pro-life organizations in the list of non-profits, which could potentially receive funds from this…
Jeff Burrows’ Drum Marathon To Help Cancer Patients
Jeff Burrows’ Drum Marathon To Help Cancer Patients Crash Karma drummer Jeff Burrows will get a major workout behind his kit next week when he stages his fourth annual drum-a-thon to raise money for a Windsor, Ontario organization called Transition To Betterness. T2B, as it is known to many in the southern Ontario community, refurbishes hospital rooms so they’re more comfortable for cancer…
The Bryan Adams Foundation Is Doing Remarkable Work
The Bryan Adams Foundation Is Doing Remarkable Work Bryan Adams at The Bread of Life home for children living with AIDS/HIV in St. Vincent - photo courtesy of The Bryan Adams FoundationBryan Adams was recently honoured with the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the 2010 Juno Awards in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, which he was unable to accept…
Drake Donates $30,000 To Build Computer Schools In Jamaica
Drake Donates $30,000 To Build Computer Schools In Jamaica Drake is already doing good things with the money that has come his way since becoming one of the fastest rising hip hop artists in the music world by helping out the poverty-stricken Cassava Piece community in Kingston, Jamaica. “It’s where one of my favourite reggae artists, Mavado, and one of…
Green Music Group Aims To Save The Environment
Green Music Group Aims To Save The Environment Green Music Group was created earlier this year to set green guidelines and create widespread environmental change within the music industry. GMG is a coalition of musicians, music industry representatives and fans that was the brainchild of Andrew Gardner, singer-guitarist with American band Guster. It’s a…
Young Artists For Haiti’s “Wavin’ Flag” Single Still No. 1 Download
Young Artists For Haiti’s “Wavin’ Flag” Single Still No. 1 Download Young Artists For Haiti, the Canadian collective of 50+ musicians which covered K’naan’s “Wavin’ Flag” to raise money for the victims of January’s devastating earthquake, remains at No. 1 on the SoundScan Hot Digital Songs chart for the fourth week in a row and has sold 80,000 downloads…
Top-selling CDs Re-packaged With Green Bag
Top-selling CDs Re-packaged With Green Bag To celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary on April 22, EMI Music has launched the Live Life Greener CD series, beginning with six popular catalog titles from a diverse crop of artists — Norah Jones, The Steve Miller Band, Frank Sinatra, Poison, Pat Benatar and Heart. What makes these packages eco-friendly is that…
Toronto’s Melanie Fiona Ambassador For ‘Empowering Women Through Music’
Toronto’s Melanie Fiona Ambassador For ‘Empowering Women Through Music’ Toronto R&B-pop singer Melanie Fiona, whose song “It Kills Me” was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award in January and debut album, The Bridge, is up for a JUNO Award this month, has aligned herself with U.S. non-profit Music Unites. The organization is dedicated to bringing music…
Singer Teams With Mountain Equipment Co-op To Help Environment
Singer Teams With Mountain Equipment Co-op To Help Environment Canadian indie artist Chris Velan is touring across the country this month to boost awareness about local environmental issues and organizations that share his perspective. Velan is an artist member of One Percent For The Planet, a growing eight-year-old movement of more than 1,200 companies…
Lilith Tour 2010 Launches Choose Your Charity Audience-Engagement Campaign
Lilith Tour 2010 Launches Choose Your Charity Audience-Engagement Campaign Sarah McLachlanThe 2010 Lilith Tour music festival has brought in social media technology platform Involver to launch Choose Your Charity, an audience engagement campaign run exclusively on Facebook. This contest invites local citizens in each city on this summer’s tour to have a…
El Mocambo Owner Follows Mother Teresa
El Mocambo Owner Follows Mother Teresa El Mocambo owner Mr. Abbas delivering food to Toronto's homeless communityAbbas Jahangiri permits himself a wry smile as he recalls his startling switch from Toronto-based entrepreneur to philanthropist maintaining an almost inhuman schedule performing humanitarian works across the globe. “I used to be a capitalist…
Sarah Harmer And Other Determined Citizens Battle Goliath
Sarah Harmer And Other Determined Citizens Battle Goliath Singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer, and co-founder of Protecting Escarpment Rural Land, is proof that a bunch of determined civilians can successfully battle a major company, Nelson Aggregate. PERL’s executive committee and hundreds of members have been on a mission to protect Mount Nemo in Burlington…
Ben Harper Plugs Living Lands And Waters
Ben Harper Plugs Living Lands And Waters Musician Ben Harper is calling attention to one of his number one charities, Living Lands & Water (www.livinglandsandwaters.org), dedicated to cleaning up and preserving America’s rivers. “It’s run by a gentleman named Chad Pregracke and his life devotion is to cleaning up rivers,” Harper told Samaritanmag.com…
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…