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MusiCounts Aeroplan Mile Donations Receive Triple Their Value This Week
MusiCounts Aeroplan Mile Donations Receive Triple Their Value This Week MusiCounts Aeroplan Match Week — photo credit: CARASThis week is the perfect time for music supporters to donate their Aeroplan miles, those reward miles travelers earn from Air Canada and partner airlines, to a good cause. The period of Nov. 23-29 has been declared MusiCounts…
Gord Bamford Golf Event Raises Half-Million For Charity
Gord Bamford Golf Event Raises Half-Million For Charity 8th Annual Gord Bamford at his 8th annual Charity Golf Classic — photo courtesy of Sony Music Canada.Country musician Gord Bamford may have just scored a charitable hole-in-one as his 8th Annual Gord Bamford Charity Golf Classic raised an astounding $508,350 on Aug. 12-13. Bamford, a 19-time CCMA…
MusiCounts and Why Reggae-pop Band Magic! Donated $100K
MusiCounts and Why Reggae-pop Band Magic! Donated $100K Magic! sponsored the 2015 Teacher of the Year award, which went to Steve Sainas (centre) — photo credit: CARAS/iPhoto. Magic! frontman Nasri Atweh knew his charity of choice would involve music, kids and the school system. He just didn’t know what it would be, he told Samaritanmag last May. His…
Magic! Sponsors Music Teacher of the Year, Rock School's Steve Sainas
Magic! Sponsors Music Teacher of the Year, Rock School's Steve Sainas The members of Magic! with Teacher of the Year, Steve Sainas (centre), at the 2015 Juno Awards — photo credit: CARAS\iPhoto.Why are some students switching schools or, in some cases, making a daily two-hour round trip to attend Terry Fox Secondary School in Port Coquitlam, B.C.?…
Singer Lights' Own Flavour & All Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt Sold March 11 Benefit MusiCounts
Singer Lights' Own Flavour & All Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt Sold March 11 Benefit MusiCounts For the past month, Juno Award-winning synth-pop singer Lights has had her own Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt, a cookie dough base called Up We Dough, a play on the title of her gold hit single, “Up We Go,” from her latest album, Little Machines. Tomorrow, March…
Weddings Parties Anything: Donate Your Aeroplan Miles In Someone's Name For Charity
Weddings Parties Anything: Donate Your Aeroplan Miles In Someone's Name For Charity Aeroplan members have already donated more than 410 million miles to various charities to help offset their travel costs as part of the Beyond Miles program and now they can donate on someone’s behalf — for weddings, parties, anything, even in memory of or for no…
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…
Metric Singer Emily Haines Partners With Kiehl's For MusiCounts
Metric Singer Emily Haines Partners With Kiehl's For MusiCounts Metric's Emily Haines sits in a Kiehl's store to discuss the importance of music and MusiCounts.There’s still time to step up and help Metric singer Emily Haines raise money for Canadian charity MusiCounts through her partnership with Kiehl’s. For every product sold online at kiehls.ca,…
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch Jamming at Toronto’s Sketch Working Arts for Street-Involved and Homeless Youth — photo credit: Sonya Reynolds.For a long time, the Canadian music industry’s charity of choice, MusiCounts, operated by the Canadian Academy of Recording…
MusiCounts TD Community Music Grants To Benefit Disadvantaged Youth
MusiCounts TD Community Music Grants To Benefit Disadvantaged Youth Recording artist Serena Ryder indulges students at a MusiCounts presentation at Woodbine J.H.S. — photo: Barry Roden.Canadian non-profit and registered charitable organizations with pre-existing music programs and those that want to introduce a music program to complement their current…
2010's MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Ensures Music Lessons For Low-income Kids
2010's MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Ensures Music Lessons For Low-income Kids Rock band Billy Talent with 2011 MusiCounts teacher of the year, Marian Cheney — Photo credit: Barry RodenThe Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) has named Toronto’s Marian Cheney 2010’s MusiCounts teacher of the year. For 20 years, she has been…