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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…
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…
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:…
Tegan And Sara Get Swift Response to LGBTQ Summer Camp Fundraiser
Tegan And Sara Get Swift Response to LGBTQ Summer Camp Fundraiser Tegan And Sara are sending more than 100 young people to LGBTQ camp this summer in the U.S. and Canada for a total cost of about $100,000 (USD), and have invited the public to help make that dream a reality. An online campaign has received swift support in a matter of days. The musical…
Q&A: Amazing Race Canada Winner Tim Hague Leverages Parkinson’s Disease for New Career
Q&A: Amazing Race Canada Winner Tim Hague Leverages Parkinson’s Disease for New Career Tim Hague holds his new book, Perserverance — photo credit: T.H.'s Facebook.After reading his book, it’s hard not to conclude that the world needs more Tim Hague. Or more precisely, the world needs more people with Hague’s aggressive optimism in the face of…
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…
Miss Globe Uses Name for Karebear Community Party at Thompson Toronto
Miss Globe Uses Name for Karebear Community Party at Thompson Toronto Miss Globe 2017 Kara Grainger — photo credit: Lgh.art.photography.Miss Globe 2017 Kara Granger, the "kar" in The Karebear Community, is throwing a posh but affordable party at The Thompson Toronto May 3 to raise money for four charities, Sistering, Interval House, The HarryCares…
Martha Wainwright Headlining Woody Guthrie’s Widow’s Huntington Disease Benefit
Martha Wainwright Headlining Woody Guthrie’s Widow’s Huntington Disease Benefit The late Marjorie and Woody Guthrie — photo credit: HDSA.When folk icon Woody Guthrie died in a New York City hospital on October 3, 1967, from the complications of Huntington’s disease, his widow Marjorie ensure a continued battle against the inherited neurological ailment…
Gary Slaight Juno Awards Program Exclusive Interview
Gary Slaight Juno Awards Program Exclusive Interview Gary Slaight receives the Humanitarian Award at the Juno Gala Dinner & Awards, March 24, Vancouver — photo credit: CARAS/iPhoto.The benevolence demonstrated by Gary Slaight, this year’s Humanitarian Award recipient at the Juno Awards last month, and the Slaight Family Foundation over which he…
Hip Hop Artist Emmanuel Jal Among Winners Of 2018 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent
Hip Hop Artist Emmanuel Jal Among Winners Of 2018 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent Emmanual Jal — courtesy photo.Sudanese-Canadian hip hop artist and former child soldier Emmanuel Jal is one of three recipients of the 2018 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent, established in 2012 by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF…
Q&A: Author of The Tragically Hip Book Says Earmarking for Charity Is What You Should Do
Q&A: Author of The Tragically Hip Book Says Earmarking for Charity Is What You Should Do Author Michael Barclay with his new book on The Tragically Hip — photo courtesy of ECW Press.The Tragically Hip might at least be pleased that a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Michael Barclay’s new book, The Never-Ending Present (ECW Press), about the…
Jay-Z Tells Letterman Trump is Great For America and Explains Why
Jay-Z Tells Letterman Trump is Great For America and Explains Why Jay-Z used his recent appearance on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman to explain why Donald Trump being the president of the United States of America might help turn the country around and empower young people in the next election. Letterman prompted the rapper…
Musician Rich Aucoin Touring U.S. by Bicycle to Benefit Mental Health
Musician Rich Aucoin Touring U.S. by Bicycle to Benefit Mental Health Rich AucoinNext time you encounter an interview with a touring musician whining about the rigours of the road, spare a thought for Rich Aucoin. On March 23, the Halifax-based dance/rock artist began a 15-date U.S. jaunt in support of his new Hold EP. On the tour, originally called F#$…
Philanthropist Peter Munk, who donated $300M to Various Causes and Created the Munk Debates, Dies at 90
Philanthropist Peter Munk, who donated $300M to Various Causes and Created the Munk Debates, Dies at 90 Peter and Melanie Monk — photo credit: Tom Sandler.One of Canada’s most admired and significant philanthropists has died. Peter Munk, who donated nearly $300 million to numerous causes and established and created the renowned Munk Debates, with his wife…