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Terra Lightfoot, Lindi Ortega And Begonia Tour To Benefit Four Charities
Terra Lightfoot, Lindi Ortega And Begonia Tour To Benefit Four Charities Terra Lightfoot — photo by Dustin RabinCanadian musicians Terra Lightfoot, Lindi Ortega and Begonia are teaming up for an Ontario tour in February that will benefit multiple organizations. Titled the Longest Road Show, the tour will hit Kitchener, Ottawa, Hamilton, London and…
Barenaked Ladies, Scott Helman, Monster Truck, USS Among Acts Honouring Walk Off The Earth's Mike Taylor At Free Show
Barenaked Ladies, Scott Helman, Monster Truck, USS Among Acts Honouring Walk Off The Earth's Mike Taylor At Free Show Mike Taylor tribute — graphic providedBarenaked Ladies, Scott Helman, Monster Truck, USS and Saint Alvia are among the bands announced to perform acoustically at a free tribute concert to honour Mike "Beard Guy" Taylor, the multi-…
MusiCounts Gives $500,000 Worth of Music Instruments to 30 Community Programs
MusiCounts Gives $500,000 Worth of Music Instruments to 30 Community Programs MusiCounts TD Community Music Program celebration at Music For the Spirit in Ohsweken, ON on the Six Nations Grand River Reserve — photo credit: Barry Roden MusiCounts and the TD Bank Group on Wednesday honoured 30 community music programs countrywide that received $500,000 …
Q&A: Splash'N Boots Talks Plus 1 Tour, Hug Pillow and Alan Doyle Album
Q&A: Splash'N Boots Talks Plus 1 Tour, Hug Pillow and Alan Doyle Album Splash'N Boots onstage in Newfoundland — photo credit: Facebook page It’s perhaps ironic that children’s entertainers — though vessels for shiny, happy, sticky singalongs about fantastical ephemera — in many ways carry more responsibility than their rock-and-roll brethren.…
Meghan Patrick Suprises School for MusiCounts Presentation of Instruments
Meghan Patrick Suprises School for MusiCounts Presentation of Instruments SiriusXM Canada’s Jeff Leake, CCMA president Tracy Martin, Meghan Patrick and CARAS president Allan Reid — photo courtesy MusiCountsCanadian Country Music Week didn’t just bring truckloads of country music star power to Hamilton, Ontario recently, it also brought instruments for…
Gord Bamford, Fellow Musicians, NHLers & Olympians Help Raise Half-a-Mil Playing Golf
Gord Bamford, Fellow Musicians, NHLers & Olympians Help Raise Half-a-Mil Playing Golf Gord Bamford presents MusiCounts head Allan Reid with a big fat cheque — photo credit: Ichy Finger Photoography. Canadian country musician Gord Bamford raised close to a half-a-million dollars at the latest edition of his Charity Golf Classic. Now in its 11th year…
Bud Light Dreams Donates $1-per-ticket to MusiCounts
Bud Light Dreams Donates $1-per-ticket to MusiCounts Bud Light Dreams Music Festival — photo credit: screenshot from promo video. Bud Light Dreams Music Festival is carrying on a tradition for the third year in a row: $1 per every ticket sold for this year’s two-day fest will be donated to MusiCounts, the music education charity associated with the Juno…
MusiCounts Provides $725,000 Worth of Instruments to 80 Schools
MusiCounts Provides $725,000 Worth of Instruments to 80 Schools Kids at Vancouver's Sir Alexander MacKenzie school receive $10,000 worth of instruments from MusiCounts — photo credit: screenshot. MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity associated with The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS, the organization behind the Juno Awards…
Juno Awards and Juno Week Events Help Foster Young Musicians
Juno Awards and Juno Week Events Help Foster Young Musicians Juno Cup 2017 — Rockers look on during skills competition, TD Place, Ottawa — photo courtesy of CARAS. To casual observers, the Juno Awards are star-studded, televised hoopla lionizing Canadian music and the business that supports it. But a closer examination of the Junos — and its attendant…
Celebrating 20 Years: Musicounts Impact, Memories and Emotions
Celebrating 20 Years: Musicounts Impact, Memories and Emotions Bob Ezrin (3rd from left) spearheaded the MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award and enlisted his friends The Rolling Stones to sponsor and present it in 2006 to Norm McIntosh (middle) — photo courtesy of CARAS. Some artists and members of the music industry have become a little tearful at…
Famed Music Producer Bob Ezrin and Wife Honoured with Inaugural Advocacy Award from MusiCounts
Famed Music Producer Bob Ezrin and Wife Honoured with Inaugural Advocacy Award from MusiCounts Bob and Jan Ezrin — photo courtesy of MusiCounts.Bob Ezrin’s CV is expansive and impressive but so too is his heart. The latter is about to be fêted with a statue all its own. Along with wife and business partner Jan Ezrin, the legendary Canadian producer known…
Year-End: MusiCounts Donated $525K Worth of Instruments and Gear to 33 Community Groups
Year-End: MusiCounts Donated $525K Worth of Instruments and Gear to 33 Community Groups Kardinal Offishall performs at the MusiCounts TD Community Music Program Union Station event — photo via Strut Entertainment Twitter page Thirty-three community groups received musical instruments and equipment worth $525,000 this year, thanks to the MusiCounts TD…
Polaris Music Prize Invited Two Music Charities to Partner with the Awards
Polaris Music Prize Invited Two Music Charities to Partner with the Awards Kaytranada receives the 2016 Polaris Music Prize from last year's winner, Buffy Sainte-Marie — photo credit: Daniel Williams. Montreal hip hop artist/producer Kaytranada walked away with $50,000 and the declaration that his album 99.9% was the best Canadian album of the…
God Made Me Funky, Elwins & Guests Lee Aaron & Simone Denny Headline First Standalone MusiCounts Concert
God Made Me Funky, Elwins & Guests Lee Aaron & Simone Denny Headline First Standalone MusiCounts Concert MusiCount's Vanessa Thomas, musician Jess Moskaluke and CCMA's Don Green (centre, back) with students from Kennetcook District Elementary School at the World Trade & Convention Centre, Summit Suite in Halifax, NS during CCMA Week — photo…
