Let’s Hear It! Live is back for the 3rd emerging artist showcase in this 4-part live concert series spotlighting new and emerging talent from diverse communities around BC. Curated in partnership with Talking Stick Festival, this showcase celebrates new and thriving voices in music with this special artist showcase at Fortune Sound Club – Hosted by JB The First Lady.
*Early Show*
Fortune Sound Club
Show: 7:00PM – Tickets by Donation
Featuring Eros Taylor, Caitlin Goulet and Eagle Ex Machina
w/ Special Guest JB The First Lady
The artist showcase will be the finale of a powerful afternoon of panel discussions also happening at Fortune Sound Club. Come early to listen and learn from Indigenous perspectives on inclusion, wellness and diversity in the creative industries.
Happening just before the Let’s Hear It! Live – Indigenous Artist Showcase, join us for a round of powerful panel discussions and keynote with JB The First Lady. Presented in partnership with Talking Stick Festival and Blueprint, the afternoon will explore topics in diversity, inclusion and wellness from an Indigenous perspective. Stay tuned as more speakers are announced.
Afro x Indigenous Music Connections
This panel will feature a group of Afro-Indigenous artists, songwriters and advocates from BC to discuss their roots in hip-hop, and their experience as individuals intersecting two communities
Mental Wealth III
This conversation aims to help de-stigmatizing mental health issues while highlighting different approaches to true wellness.
Following Your Inner Compass – A Conversation with JB The First Lady
Indigenous hip-hop and spoken word artist, emcee, beat-boxer, activist, cultural dancer, and youth educator – JB The First Lady will share moments of inspiration, learning and growth through her artistic career and beyond.
This event is by donation, Everyone is welcome to attend, and stay for the evenings live music programming!
Thank you to Talking Stick Festival, FACTOR and the Government of Canada, Blueprint, Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia for their support in this initiative.
Have you requested your 1-hour consultation through the Jumpstart Program yet? This ongoing and on-demand program connects artists and music professionals with career support to help accelerate their music project. To learn more about how you can access this incredible resource, follow the link below.
The Reeperbahn Festival returns to Hamburg, DE from September 21st – 24th, 2022. Music BC will once again be hosting BC artists at Canada House alongside our partners across the country. Artists interested in showcasing are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as artists will be considered on a first come first serve basis.
The application deadline is July 23rd, 2022 for the festival – but BC artists are highly recommended to apply as soon as they can.
MUSIC BC TRAVEL GRANTS The deadline for our travel grant applications are only a few weeks away for artist or business travel. For each deadline always make sure to review the Guidelines and Eligibility as we do make adjustments throughout the year based on feedback from our applicants and members. The deadline for this intake will be June 10th, 2022 at 5:00PM (PDT).
GRANTS FOR UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS Creative BC has launched three programs funding Indigenous and underrepresented artists and organizations: the Demo Recording, Music Video, and Industry Catalyst programs. Previously supporting artists and industry living and working in Vancouver, the Province of British Columbia has matched funding provided by the City of Vancouver to extend these programs across B.C.
APPLY NOW TO M FOR MONTREAL Artists wishing to apply for the Official Selection of this 17th edition can answer to the call for applications, presented by la Caisse Desjardins de la Culture, from today until midnight on June 6. To submit your project, you need to fill the form available below. Please note that an administrative fee of 45$ CAD is required for each artist application.
Live Nation Announces ‘Next Gen’ Program To Help Young People Into The Music Business ”Live Nation Next Gen”, a new career development program focused on helping young people, primarily from Black and Latinx communities, prepare for careers in the live music business. According to the announcement, The inaugural program features an intensive 10-week program of courses for local students ages 16 to 21. Each week the students are guided through a curriculum and learning from a host of industry professionals, volunteer advisory board members, and Live Nation executives. – READ MORE
Troy Carter’s Venice Is Launching An NFT-Gated Members Club, Offering Artist Services, Studios, & More The company has today taken the wraps off a new NFT-gated project called the Venice Music Collective. Amongst the perks on offer for artists accepted into this Collective? Access to a new physical space in Los Angeles called Venice House, which includes recording studios and a pool – and is claimed to offer “the creative spirit of Laurel Canyon into the modern-day era”. Venice says that, since its launch a year-and-a-half ago, it has “curated a group of creative geniuses” that includes over 100 artists, producers, managers, and indie labels. – READ MORE
TikTok Is Rolling Out Its ‘Live Subscription’ Feature The ‘creator economy’ is big business nowadays, which means the big social media firms are falling over one another to offer new ways for their creators to make money. TikTok is the latest to experiment with creator-level subscriptions, which are launching this week on an invite-only basis. The ‘Live Subscription’ will let TikTok users pay monthly subscriptions to individual creators in return for perks including profile badges, custom emotes to use in livestream chats, and access to subscriber-only chats if the creator turns it on.– READ MORE
How NFTs Are Shaping the Way Music Sounds So what flowers might bloom from this unwieldy and already-polarizing new format? An NFT music chart called Top of the Blocks, published weekly since March 2021, offers clues to what’s worked so far. The chart is based on sales volume, and the amounts required to crack the top 10 have soared over the last year, from the equivalent of $200 or $300 to $2,000 or $3,000 prior to cryptocurrency’s recent crash, says founder Robin Spottiswoode. – READ MORE
Sounds Platform Voicy Completes $1.27 Million Pre-Seed Round With Support From Spotify & Deezer Execs The startup currently boasts 1.1 million “active users,” execs disclosed, besides a library of “125,000 unique sounds” that rack up an average of 35 million total plays each month. Moreover, the emerging company has made clear that there are two sides to its operations, one involving the sharing and use of the mentioned sounds, the other centering on “instant integration with consumer apps and social platforms.” – READ MORE
Universal’s DIY Distributor Introduces A&R Process, Drops A Chunk Of Its Current Artists Spinnup is revamping to become a “fully curated invite-only artist discovery and music distribution platform”, which basically means the music distribution service will only be available to a select group of artists. Current Spinnup users not in that select group will need to find another distributor pronto. According to Hypebot, Spinnup sent an email to its current userbase on Wednesday which announced that it is “changing from an open DIY music distribution service to a curated artist discovery and distribution platform”.– READ MORE
TikTok Has Changed Music — And The Industry Is Hustling To Catch Up TikTok has flipped the script on the music industry, and everyone from artists to analysts and even marketing bosses at the top labels are hustling to catch up. Verdes thinks he would have made it without TikTok, but he also noticed that his fans on the app were especially engaged. They would go from his TikTok to his Spotify page or his YouTube channel. “You just made this video, you have this song, you have this melody that they really like. They want to go get that. You just gave them something,” he said.
– READ MORE
Music Web3 Startup Highlight Raises $11M From Backers Including Three Six Zero, WME In a blog post announcing its launch and seed round, Highlight claims to be “the product of hundreds of conversations with mainstream creators, music artists, and brands, many of whom are excited by Web3 but remain at a distance for fear of technical complexity or fan frustration”. The company claims further that, launching a project on its platform, “from deploying your custom smart contract to posting token-gated content or utility”, takes less than five minutes and requires no technical knowledge. – READ MORE
MEMBER OF THE WEEK
Nathan Turner is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer from the Pacific Northwest. He is an !earshot Top 50 National charting producer and artist with his duo Logan and Nathan. In his various projects Turner has played on stages across Canada, the USA, and the UK, with notable performances at Vancouver Island Music Fest, Canmore Folk Fest, All Folk’d Up, and Cold Snap. Stepping out on his own, his latest EP Nocturne For The Salty Moon adds down-tempo rhythm and Eno-esque ambience to evocative songwriting. The results are stunningly hypnotic with uplifting harmonies, and guitar suspended dreamily over subtle instrumentation.
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ROLLING DEADLINES
Music BCLet’s Hear It! Live – 2022 Concert Series, International Showcase Application – Artist & Business FACTOR:Live Performance, Industry Events, Collective Initiatives – Showcase Production for Artists from Official Language Minority, Collective Initiatives – Showcase Production for Export-Ready Artists, Comprehensive Artist, Comprehensive Music Company, Business Travel, Marketing & Promo for Non-FACTOR Funded Sound Recordings, Songwriter Development, Sponsorship, Video
SOCAN:Travel Assistance, Professional Development Assistance, SOCAN Foundation Relief Fund
Canada Council:Travel, Residencies, Professional Development for Artists, Research and Creation
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