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Xavier Rudd and Emmanuel Jal Release Song to Spread Love
Xavier Rudd and Emmanuel Jal Release Song to Spread Love Emmanuel Jal and Xavier Russ — image via Emmanuel Jal YouTube channelEmmanuel Jal and Xavier Rudd want their new musical team-up to spread love and kindness. Jal, a South Sudanese-Canadian hip hop artist, activist and former child soldier, and Rudd, a socially conscious Australian musician, have…
Foo Fighters Tribute Inspires Day of 1000 Musicians Charity Event
Foo Fighters Tribute Inspires Day of 1000 Musicians Charity Event Day of 1000 Musicians organizer Paul Lemire— courtesy photo.On July 21, event organizers Paul Lemire and John Fillion are hoping that 1000 musicians will show up to Firemen’s Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario and sing five Canadian songs and an AC/DC tune for charity. If Day of 1000 Musicians…
Rae Sremmurd Use New "Guatemala" Video To Support Country After Deadly Volcano Eruption
Rae Sremmurd Use New "Guatemala" Video To Support Country After Deadly Volcano Eruption Rae Sremmurd — screenshot from Rap group Rae Sremmurd are using their new music video "Guatemala" to help support the country the song inspired after the Fuego Volcano erupted on June 3, causing the deaths of 62 people and affecting approximately 1.7 million…
Metallica Donate Polar Prize Proceeds To Three Charities
Metallica Donate Polar Prize Proceeds To Three Charities Metallica's Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo receive the Polar Music Prize — photo credit: screenshot Heavy metal band Metallica have donated their one million Swedish krona ($149,851 CAD) Polar Music Prize award to three different charities, including one fellow Polar winner. Founded in 1989 by…
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…
Q&A: Pianist Jean-Michel Blais Says Music Stops His Tourette Syndrome Symptoms
Q&A: Pianist Jean-Michel Blais Says Music Stops His Tourette Syndrome Symptoms Jean-Michel Blais — photo credit: screenshot from music video, Quebec composer Jean-Michel Blais is doing something extremely unlikely in 2018 — making classical piano cool again. Buoyed by hip record label Arts & Crafts (home to the likes of Broken Social Scene and…
Kesha To Raise Funds For Immigrant Youth Org United We Dream
Kesha To Raise Funds For Immigrant Youth Org United We Dream Kesha — screenshot from Hymn music video. California-based singer-songwriter Kesha has teamed up with United We Dream, America’s largest immigrant youth-led organization at 4 million, to raise awareness about the organization. As it celebrates its 10th anniversary, United We Dream – which…
Macklemore, Peter Buck, Julien Baker Contribute Addiction Stories For KEXP Music Heals Day
Macklemore, Peter Buck, Julien Baker Contribute Addiction Stories For KEXP Music Heals Day Macklemore with KEXP's Kevin Cole — photo via KEXPMacklemore, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament and Julien Baker were among the musicians who contributed to influential Seattle public radio station KEXP's recent "Music Heals: Addiction & Recovery"…
Playing For Change Day Set for Sept. 15 in 60 Countries
Playing For Change Day Set for Sept. 15 in 60 Countries Playing For Change screenshot from promo video. Musicians and musically-minded people from around the world will be gathering on Saturday, Sept. 15 as part of Playing For Change Day, a worldwide movement harnessing music to do good. This year will feature marquee events in the following cities:…
Phantogram's Personal Loss Leads to New Charity Singles and Ticket Sales Donation to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Phantogram's Personal Loss Leads to New Charity Singles and Ticket Sales Donation to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Phantogram promo shot — photo credit: Rebecca Ferguson.A deeply personal reason led to lyrics behind Phantogram's latest single, "Someday," and the New York dream-pop duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter have decided to…
The Motivation Behind the Mariachi Party Protest Against Racist Lawyer Schlossberg
The Motivation Behind the Mariachi Party Protest Against Racist Lawyer Schlossberg Mariachis serenade — photo credit: screenshot. Aaron Schlossberg, the New York lawyer caught on camera making racist threats, was serenaded by a mariachi band and 500 revellers outside his residence on May 18. "We are countering hate and racism with the sound of music,"…
Shawn Hook and Neon Dreams to Donate $1 Per Ticket from Good Days Tour
Shawn Hook and Neon Dreams to Donate $1 Per Ticket from Good Days Tour Shawn Hook sports a Samaritanmag.com t-shirt — photo credit: selfie“Reminding Me” singer Shawn Hook and “Marching Bands” EDM-pop act Neon Dreams will be touring together this fall on a 17-date Canadian tour, with a dollar from each ticket sale going to We Charity, formerly known as…
FORM Arcosanti Festival to Support Chance The Rapper's SocialWorks Charity
FORM Arcosanti Festival to Support Chance The Rapper's SocialWorks Charity Form Arcosanti Festival — photo credit: screenshot from trailer. Now that the Big Brand™ two-weekend carnival that is Coachella has ended, another music festival is showing how things can be done entirely differently. Form Arcosanti festival will take place in the…
Billy Talent Launch Charity Trust with Limited Edition Gold Plaques
Billy Talent Launch Charity Trust with Limited Edition Gold Plaques Billy Talent promo shot — photo credit: Dustin Rabin.After years of giving back, Canadian rockers Billy Talent have launched their own charitable trust.The band, which are celebrating their 25th anniversary, if you include their previous incarnation Pezz, announced the appropriately…
Prince Harry's Invictus Games Partners With Bat Out Of Hell — The Musical
Prince Harry's Invictus Games Partners With Bat Out Of Hell — The Musical Meat Loaf meets the two leads, Christina Bennington and Andrew Polec's — photo credit: Greg Henkenhaf The elite athletes of the Invictus Games are all revved up and have some place to go now thanks to the organizers behind the London, England theater production of Bat Out Of…