Jumpstart Foundations is an on-demand video series presented by industry professionals and specialists. We are thrilled to announce two new modules in our series featuring Hollywood Jade and Meagan Davidson.
Hollywood Jade – Standing in the Spotlight
Alongside North America’s most noteworthy choreographers, Hollywood Jade has been involved in the choreography for TV performances, tours, music videos and award shows for some of the globe’s biggest names, including Keshia Chanté, Snoop Dogg, Estelle, Bebe Rexha, and Meghan Trainor. In this session, Hollywood will offer guidance and inspiration for how artists and performers can overcome that nagging critical voice that diminishes creative output and flow. The session will outline how to acknowledge your inner saboteur, challenge those destructive and self-doubting thoughts and where to find your support system both internal and external.
Meagan Davidson – Funding & Grant Writing Explained
This session will offer guidance to new and growing members of the music community – both on the business side and on the artist side. The instructor shall review the funding system in brief, including what programs are available and to whom. As well the session will introduce some best practices for preparing for your grant submission, and some tips on keeping organized for that final grant report.
Log on to foundations.musicbc.org and sign up with a -1-step, free registration. Have any feedback to share on the preview? Share your thoughts on this program by completing this short survey.
Thank you to Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, FACTOR and the Government of Canada for their support in this new training program.
Reminder for the artist applications to Come Together – an opportunity for export-ready artists from across Canada to build business relationships and showcase for key music industry professionals from Toronto and surrounding areas including labels, agents, managers, publishers, music supervisors, publicists, and more.
Artist submissions close on Wednesday, August 31st.
Thank you to Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, FACTOR and the Government of Canada for their support in this initiative.
Sending our best wishes to Haley Blais, Teon Gibbs and Jon Bryant on this weekend’s performance at THING Festival in Port Townsend, WA. Presented by Adam Zacks (Sasquatch! Festival) and the Seattle Theatre Group, THING is a unique event highlighting music from across the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about THING Festival here.
Thank you to Creative BC and The Province of British Columbia for their support in this initiative.
Introducing a two-day Indigenous-led celebration of creativity, brilliance, culture and community happening September 17th and 18th. This gathering will showcase the voices of Indigenous artists, performers, musicians, speakers, and dance groups from Musqueam and from Indigenous nations across Turtle Island. Presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Learn more and purchase tickets through the link below.
This week we have gathered all 15 of our ARC participants, Faculty and program staff at RockRidge Canyon for The Retreat. Over 6 days the artists are working with experienced producers, mentors and instructors to develop their creative skills and work collaboratively on writing and recording a new single. Follow their journey by tuning into the ARC Instagram channel, we’ll be sharing recaps of each day’s activities through this incredible experience.
Thank you to Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, FACTOR and the Government of Canada and Stingray for supporting the ARC Program.
PASSPORT: MUSIC EXPORT SUMMIT Applications are now open for a new edition PASSPORT: Music Export Summit. The program provides custom training, networking opportunities, and ongoing mentorship for self-managed artists, artist managers, and music companies who are actively doing business internationally or are export ready.
JUMPSTART CAREER CONSULTATIONS Music BC is offering an opportunity for BC-based music professionals, companies and artists to meet 1-on-1 with one of 10 professionals with experience in an array of skills and backgrounds in the industry. Learn more and sign-up for a free consultation to give your music-related project a jumpstart!
FINAL TRAVEL GRANT INTAKE NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Music BC Artist and Business Travel applications are open for the last application intake for 2022. 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 our final intake is September 9th, 2022 at 5:00PM (PDT).
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT WINDOW NOW OPEN FACTOR applications for their Artist Development program are open now! The Artist Development program (AD) offers a $2,000 subsidy toward a year of artist development activities including sound recording, touring, showcasing, video content production, and marketing. The deadline to apply is Thursday, September 8th.
B.C. Grammy Winner Alex Cuba To Be Celebrated In Smithers With Mural & Street Party Alex Cuba, the Smithers, B.C., resident and celebrated musician who recently won a Grammy award for an album he recorded in his living room during the pandemic, is going to be honoured by his home town with a blowout strret party and a two-storey mural next month. Cuba—who took home the internationally prestigious award for best Latin pop album and who sings in both Spanish and English—was recognized by the Recording Academy as artist, engineer, and producer of his winning album, Mendó. – READ MORE
TikTok Curators Are Helping Songs Go Viral – And Labels Are Writing The Checks TikTokers used to find music primarily thorugh dance trends. Now they’re gravitating to creators who recommend new songs. Spencer Stewart got on TikTok in 2020 hoping to promote his own music. He began to post every single day as Syspence, settling on an initial strategy to capture viewers: Uploading a clip about the rise of a well-known artist like Juice WRLD, and then “figuring out a way to loop the video around to my song” so he could plug his own work as well. – READ MORE
Winamp Opens Up Its New Creator Tools For 25,000 Artists In July we reported on veteran music player Winamp’s plans to revamp itself, including a B2B business built around providing services for musicians. This week, the company opened that up with a signup process for 25,000 artists and audio creators. They’ll be able to get first access to tools including distribution, royalty administration and creator-level subscriptions. Those 25,000 guinea pigs will get a year’s free access to tools that will ultimately be premium (paid) services, with the new features due to unlock in September. – READ MORE
How Artists Are Exploiting Lax Metadata Protections By Streaming Services At such a scale, metadata becomes a very thorny subject; DSPs, at the mercy of the quality of information provided to them, are sorting through an almost unmanageable wave of data. In response to this growing issue, Spotify, for instance, has unveiled a dedicated Content Mismatch tool via its Spotify For Artists platform – one imagines thousands of artists and rightsholders make use of it every day. – READ MORE
Vinyl Could Go Green by Losing Its Namesake Green Vinyl Records is breaking ground on pressing machines that forego it for polyethylene terephthalate (Pet) — a less-harmful material that is equally durable and easily recyclable. The novel pressing technology also uses just 10 percent of the energy required by standard vinyl pressing as we currently know it. Likewise, it caters to the increased demand with a capacity to produce nearly 40 percent more records than traditional pressing plants. “The pressing here is both faster and better for our planet,” owner Harm Theunisse told the BBC. – READ MORE
It’s Time For Big-Name Artists To Join Music’s New Labor Movement At the start of the pandemic, when live music had been shut down, a group of independent musicians and music workers started meeting weekly on Zoom to share ideas about what we could do to improve the difficult situation we faced. Out of those meetings grew a new advocacy organization, the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW). And among the actions UMAW undertook was a reexamination of the streaming music economy. From the ground up, you might say—how it looks to actual working musicians.– READ MORE
Bandsintown Is Giving Artists More Direct Access To Fans With A New Suite Of Tools The Fan Management Suite, which lives on Bandsintown for Artists and is built atop Bandsintown’s existing platform, offers new capabilities including free CRM tools for newsletters; direct messaging with fans; a drag-and-drop email builder for sending custom, targeted email campaigns; widgets and signup forms to gather and own first-party fan data; a dashboard to import, export and manage fan relationships; posts and push notifications to engage fans; and analytics to identify superfans and measure the impact of marketing efforts. – READ MORE
Can Canadian Musicians Afford to Tour Anymore? With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, so many artists are unable to get their tours off the ground. But those who do manage to get on the road are finding it’s not any easier: with Canada’s inflation rate at its highest since the 1980s due to skyrocketing gas prices, it’s now even harder to tour the massive country, a difficult undertaking under even the best of circumstances. And all while trying to dodge COVID-19. Daniel Monkman was already asking themself “Is touring still sustainable?” four years ago, when they were starting to build an audience for their now-acclaimed shoegaze project Zoon. – READ MORE
MEMBER OF THE WEEK
Co-creator and host for the music variety hour, David Ward’s Station 234, and the international soul music series, Propeller. Ward blends his talents as singer, songwriter, performer, producer, and writer to create works that are bold, inspiring, and inviting.
Five albums in, his ventures in music have garnered critical acclaim across Canada and the UK, and have seen him collaborate and perform with grammy-winning engineer Russell Elevado (D’Angelo, Erykah Badu), iconic drummer Daru Jones (Jack White) and singer Patrice Quinn (Kamasi Washington).
An artist ever keen to challenge himself, Ward brings a soulful magnetism to all of his imaginative work.
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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
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.
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