Joy Warmann offers her expertise in our latest Jumpstart Foundations on-demand video module, UK & European Booking & Touring Explained.
What are UK and EU tastemakers and industry professionals really looking for? Joy will introduce strategies, timelines, key metrics and valuable market insights to help inform Canadian artists and music professionals ready to start breaking into the UK. The module will also cover which gatekeepers and major stakeholdeers exist and how to pitch yourself or your artists effectively.
Discover this new module designed for new and emerging artists, managers or music professionals, and other free and on-demand video modules at foundations.musicbc.org
Thank you to Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, FACTOR and the Government of Canada for helping make this series possible.
Music BC is offering an opportunity for BC-based music professionals, companies and artists to meet 1-on-1 with one of 11 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!
Treefort Music Festival is one of the Pacific Northwest’s most sonically diverse events, taking place annually in the heart of Boise, Idaho. This March, Music BC will be returning to Treefort with performance and networking opportunities for BC artists.
Artist applications are now being accepted until November 19th, 2022. Follow the link below to submit!
Thank you to Creative BC and The Province of British Columbia for their support in this initiative.
We are excited to support Matt Stern who will be going to Montreal representing for BC during Manitoba Music’s Rame à la rencontre de l’industrie de la musique francophone.
Running November 7-8 in partnership with the massive music discovery festival Coup de coeur francophone, Rame focuses on building key music business connections for Francophone music entrepreneurs with an industry showcase, one-on-one industry meetings, and networking opportunities for participants. Francophone music from Western Canada is returning to centre stage in Montreal this November with Manitoba Music’s Rame à la rencontre de l’industrie de la musique francophone.
On Monday November 15th, BC’s Nicky MacKenzie and IAMTHELIVING will be joining a lineup of emerging acts from across Canada for the second annual Come Together showcase in Toronto, ON. Come Together is an initiative launched in 2021 by the Canadian Council of Music Industry Associations, with support from the Canadian Independent Music Association in an effort to help bridge the gap between Toronto industry and the rest of Canada’s artists and music companies. Over two days, 12 artists and managers will partake in networking events and business-to-business meetings with Toronto agents, labels, publishers and alike, followed by two private industry showcases.
Are you or someone you know a member of the Toronto music industry and interested in attending? Email us at info@musicbc.org for more information.
APPLY NOW TO THE GREAT ESCAPE The Great Escape welcomes artists from every genre across the globe to apply for a chance to play at the world’s most renowned festival for breaking new talent. The event happens annually in beautiful Brighton, where 450+ acts will be filling over 30 venues. Export ready artists from BC are encourage to apply as soon as possible. Deadline for submission is February 15th, 2023.APPLY NOW
WOMEN IN MUSIC CANADA ENTREPRENEUR ACCELERATOR Women in Music is launching the third annual Entrepreneur Accelerator program, focused on supporting the next wave of female and gender diverse Canadian music industry leaders. After our successful first, Ontario based year, and a second year extended to National, we are excited to take the program to a new level yet again. Deadline for submission is November 14th. APPLY NOW
INDUSTRY NEWS
Desirée Dawson announced as FOTR’s artist-in-residence Desirée Dawson, a BC-based singer and songwriter, has been selected as the visiting artist for Folk on the Rocks’ new artist-in-residency program. She will spend November living in Yellowknife and participating in weekly performances, collaborating with local artists, and hosting music industry workshops. Dawson says she started playing music 10 years ago when she discovered its power to bring people together. Her career started with her guiding yoga and meditation and infusing the two with music. “Once I started seeing how powerful that was, that’s what introduced me into actually performing on stage and following more of a songwriting path,” Dawson told Cabin Radio. “I know that everybody probably writes from the heart, but my music is just heartfelt with some slow meditative albums, with also more upbeat pop songs, and really I just want to be a healing experience for other people. – READ MORE
Over $300,000 in Musical Instruments Awarded to 24 Community Organizations Across Canada Each year, the MusiCounts TD Community Music Program awards up to $20,000 for musical instruments, equipment, and resources to community groups or not-for-profit organizations who deliver music programs to youth up to the age of 25. The North York Inter-Community Youth program will be using the funds to acquire additional steelpan drums to expand its programming to meet demand. Through offering its music programming, the organization has steered youth away from illegal drug activity and gun violence by providing them an opportunity to explore their musical passions. The Nepalese Canadian Society of Edmonton will purchase traditional instruments to help local Nepali-Canadian youth connect with their heritage, traditions, and identity through music. – READ MORE
Grace Chiang ready to rewrite music biz bias after 2022 Women In Studio National Accelerator As one of the six participants in Music Publishers Canada’s Women in Studio National Accelerator 2022 program, Coquitlam’s Grace Chiang joined a group of six women selected from across Canada to have their careers put under a microscope by industry experts. Designed for gender-fluid, non-binary and gender non-conforming women to hone their talents with comprehensive workshops, mentorship sessions, networking opportunities and community building, the program aims to change the landscape for female engineers and producers in the industry. It finished with an intensive final week in Toronto that included in-person training with leading producers, singer songwriters, and more. – READ MORE
Netflix Music Supervisors File For Union Election
A number of music supervisors who are currently working with or have recently worked with the streamer on a project-by-project basis are seeking to be represented in collective bargaining by IATSE, the major crew union that represents music editors, camera crews, script supervisors and other crafts. (No in-house workers are included in the current effort.) According to IATSE, “an overwhelming majority” of music supervisors recently and now affiliated with the company asked the company for voluntary recognition, which Netflix rebuffed, so the group is now seeking to join IATSE through the NLRB process. – READ MORE
Black Lives in Music unveils its industry anti-racism code British organisation Black Lives in Music has announced its anti-racism code for the music industry, which will be adopted in 2023 with the backing of industry bodies and the UK’s Independent Standards Authority. Chief executive Charisse Beaumont made the announcement yesterday at the parliamentary inquiry into misogyny in the music industry. The code will cover people working in the UK industry, including freelancers, with a focus on pay, inclusion and safety for Black, Asian and ethically diverse people. – READ MORE
Snotty Nose Rez Kids to lead songwriting and production workshop with Vancouver Island Regional Library Young hip hop fans have the chance of a lifetime to learn more about the craft of songwriting and production thanks to a collaboration between acclaimed Indigenous rappers Snotty Nose Rez Kids (SNRK) and the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL). On Nov. 17, people aged 30 and under can sign up for a virtual live interactive workshop, q and a and pre-recorded performance on Zoom with the two members of SNRK, Haisla rappers Darren “Young D” Metz and Quinton “Yung Trybez” Nyce. – READ MORE
Musicians like me can no longer afford to tour. Live music won’t survive unless the industry changes “I’ve done more than a dozen tours, and hitting the road has always been a financially risky endeavour. A three-week journey can cost anywhere between $60,000 and $100,000. The expenses behind the average tour—which can include a tour manager, travel, work visas, backing musicians, and lighting and sound technicians—are mostly paid out of pocket by artists. The travel is excruciating, and the margins are incredibly thin. Bands don’t get in the van because they think they’re going to get rich; most of us hope to simply break even and gain a few new fans along the way.” – READ MORE
Amazon Prime now comes with a full music catalog of 100-million songs and ad-free podcasts Amazon today announced a new benefit for its Prime members which could lure some subscribers away from other music services, like Apple Music or Spotify. The company said it will now offer Prime subscribers a full music catalog with 100 million songs, instead of the previously more limited selection of just 2 million songs, and will make most of the top podcasts on its service available without ads. In addition, the Amazon Music app is getting a revamp, which includes a new “Podcast Previews” feature that will allow customers to listen to short clips as a way to discover new podcasts they may like. – READ MORE
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
Ruby Singh is a multi award winning composer and producer residing on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC.). His creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, memory, justice and fantasy. Singh is an artist whose work is informed by sound found all around us, from the whirling planets and stars of distant galaxies to percussion of an umbrella under coastal rains, to the perpetual moving birdsong of the dawn chorus, constantly circling the globe.
The richly imaginative visual textures to his sound design have found kinship in the theatre, film and dance worlds, where he has been celebrated by multiple Jessie and Leo award nominations. His distinct approach uses traditional and emergent sonic practices to create compositions that express the vast spectrum of the human experience. Singh’s artistic impulses gravitate in many directions, in 2022 he received the Lieutenant Governor’s Jubilee Award for excellence in art and music.
His previous works range from ambient audio-visual worlds of the Polyphonic Garden to Jhalaak, a Sufi hip hop album made alongside Manganiyar musicians recorded in the clay huts of the Thar desert in Rajasthan India, reinterpreting 13th century Sufi poetry. His most recent offerings include: Vox.infold, an a cappella project bringing together the sounds of Inuit, Indigenous, Black and South Asian voices, has been met with critical acclaim and The Future Ancestors a blues and soul infused live hip hop project. Singh believes in art’s ability to reimagine futures, to repurpose aesthetic freedoms toward civil and environmental justice.
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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