There are only a few tickets left for tonight’s edition of Let’s Hear It! Live honouring emerging women in music. This month we celebrate Women’s History Month with three BC based, female led artists and special guest Allie Sheldan (Little Destroyer) with DJ Jody G.
The Beaumont Studios
Doors 7:00PM
Featuring Serena Sun, Club Sofa and DACEY
$15 via Eventbrite
Thank you to Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, FACTOR and the Government of Canada for their support in this series!
The Artist Development and Juried Sound Recording application deadlines for 2022-2023 are now announced! Artist Development will have three deadlines through 2022-2023 including: July 14th, 2022, September 8th, 2022, and February 2nd, 2023.
Juried Sound Recording will have two deadlines in 2022, including May 5th, 2022 and November 17th, 2022. Applications for the upcoming JSR deadline will be available through the FACTOR portal starting on April 1st.
The Henry Armstrong Award (HAA) is a newly launched bursary and mentorship program, created to develop, elevate, and support Indigenous artists within the Canadian music industry. Named for MDM Recordings Inc. president and founder Mike Denney’s grandfather Lloyd Henry and mother Gloria Denney (née Armstrong), both fellow Six Nations Lower Mohawk, The Henry Armstrong Award aims to provide unique opportunities for growth and development to the selected recipient.
Submissions for the award will open on April 19th, 2022 – with the winning recipient being named on National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21st, 2022).
Applications for BreakOut West 2022 in Calgary are fast approaching. Artists from Western Canada are encouraged to complete their submission for festival showcasing and/or to be considered for one of Western Canadian Music Award categories!
Don’t miss out on your opportunity to be considered for this year’s return to a live and in-person event! Deadline April 15th, 2022.
REEPERBAHN ARTIST APPLICATIONS
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 directly to Reeperbahn here. The deadline to apply is July 23rd, 2022.
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.
Applications Open: Women In The Studio National Accelerator 2022 | Music Publishers Canada Music Publishers Canada is proud to announce we are accepting applications for our Women in the Studio National Accelerator. Now in its fourth year, this program proudly offers a series of curated production-related opportunities and networking experiences to women-identifying producer-songwriters from across the country. Meet our program alumni here. – READ MORE
Universal Music Publishing Group strikes strategic alliance with podcast studio Audio Up Universal Music Publishing Group has entered into a strategic alliance with audio content production studio, Audio Up. The agreement will focus on signing songwriters to create unique music for Audio Up’s original podcast programs. Additionally, UMPG signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement with songwriter, producer and Audio Up CEO, “Jingle Jared” Gutstadt.– READ MORE
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Shouts Out Vancouver’s Kimmortal Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — congresswoman for New York’s 14th congressional district — has paid tribute to one of Canada’s rising West Coast hip-hop stars. Last night (March 24), in a lengthy Instagram Story calling out the treatment of SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearings this week, AOC also shouted out Kimmortal and soundtracked her story with the Vancouver hip-hop artist’s track “Sad Femme Club.”– READ MORE
Nettwerk Music Group Ramps Up It’s A&R Division Nettwerk Music Group has announced multiple promotions in its A&R department as the company ramps up the expansion of its A&R division to expand globally. Rachel Cragg has been promoted to Vice President, A&R, and Strategy, while Sameer Sadhu and Angus Blair are now Vice President(s), A&R, respectively. Cragg has built a roster of global artists, including Mallrat, Neil Frances, Kali, Dee Holt, and Hermitude.– READ MORE
Spotify to Use Its Own Payments Platform Spotify and Google announced a new multi-year agreement that both lowers commissions and allows Spotify to utilize their own payments platform for in-app purchases. Spotify has been reportedly pushing to use their own payments app for years, and it makes sense; using a common platform for all payments gives Spotify additional scale in payments and streamlines the administrative functions of managing payments settlement across their business. – READ MORE
TikTok Wants To Distribute Music For Unsigned, Up-And-Coming Artists – Record Labels Might Not Like That TikTok’s early relationship with the music industry was a fraught one. Over the last couple of years, though, conflict has cooled, largely thanks to TikTok signing multiple revenue-sharing partnerships with major record labels. And, of course, there’s the fact that TikTok can almost singlehandedly create chart-topping hits—a valuable thing for labels looking to put their up-and-coming performers on the map. That’s why TikTok’s new venture, a music distribution platform called SoundOn, might reignite industry tensions.– READ MORE
What If Artists Could Finally See Their Data? Chartmetric Introduces ‘Artist Plan’ For Direct Data Access Artists themselves typically lack the ability to comprehensively survey their own data, at least without a serious company or team backing them. Now, Chartmetric is aiming to solve that problem with an artist-specific platform called ‘Artist Plan’. Actually, this isn’t a separate platform from Chartmetric’s mainline music analytics product. But instead of an enterprise-level package that allows tracking across large numbers of different artists, platforms, and rankings in general, Artist Plan focuses on one artist – the one subscribing.– READ MORE
What Happens When Vinyl Records Meet NFTs? Software engineer and Vinylkey co-founder Sean Moore has been involved in the crypto world since 2013, buying bitcoin, Ethereum, and later NFTs. He saw the rise of NFTs offering a digital facsimile of a physical product, and figured there was an opportunity to do the same for music. So he approached Citizen Vinyl CEO Gar Ragland with a business proposition: to press NFT-enabled records.“Anything that moves us away from this monopolistic, homogenous tunnel vision and creates a more creatively operative place, I’m interested.”– READ MORE
MEMBER OF THE WEEK
Ari James is an artist with sounds laden with Rock, Pop, and Hip-Hop. Akin to acts such as Still Woozy & Dominic Fike, Ari works to blend melodic guitar riffs, emotional pop vocals, and energetic drums.
Reach out to info@musicbc.org if you would like to include an upcoming application or funding deadline.
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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