Meet the Diversified and Talented David Rix

Fri Jul 21 2023
David Rix

David comes from career, he has worked as a director, actor, singer, musical artist, screenwriter and more.

In 2012, he directed Emil's production of The Sound of Music, a collaboration that has continued ever since. The Phantom of the Opera is his ninth musical sitting in the director's chair. David has also been on stage in most of the Entertainment Patrol's productions at KristianstadsTeater, most recently in School of Rock. He is also very current with Kristianstad, Sweden and is a multitasker in culture.

In his diversified his participation in Kabaret Kulan at Vinbäcken this summer.

This year will be his second year of being featured at the Lilla By Festivalen in Sweden. The festival has been gaining notoriety this year for a host of legendary and talented people.

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For more visit:
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CNE’s 2023 Bandshell Concert Line-Up Revealed: From Bollywood, to Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop, and More Pink Floyd!

Fri Jul 21 2023
CNE BANDSHELL

Music festival season is in full swing in Ontario, and the signature event to cap off the summer has just announced its 17-day concert line-up. The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) has revealed its 2023 Bandshell headliners including new music from platinum-selling powerhouse Amanda Marshall, nine-time JUNO winning artist Jann Arden, Bollywood music icon Shafqat Amanat Ali, legendary reggae songstress Marcia Griffiths, singer-songwriter William Prince, and fellow country superstar Brett Kissel. Six-time GRAMMY-winner Dionne Warwick will headline on Saturday, August 19, to delight fans on the only Canadian stop along her North American Tour this summer.

The Canadian Country Music Association® Unveils The Nominees For The 2023 CCMA Awards

Fri Jul 14 2023
CCMA Awards

On July 13, 2023, the Canadian Country Music Association® (CCMA®) unveiled the nominees for the 2023 CCMA Awards presented by TD. Returning to Hamilton for the seventh time, Country Music Week 2023 and the 2023 CCMA Awards presented By TD offer fans the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get up close to their favourite artists in one place, while showcasing and celebrating some of country music’s biggest stars and homegrown talent. Winners will be announced on September 16 as the 2023 CCMA Awards presented by TD are broadcast live from Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre at 8 p.m. ET/PT exclusively on CTV, CTV.ca, and the CTV app.

Awa Niagara Festival August 26 + 27, 2023 Features Afrobeat Music, Dance and More In Queenston, Niagara-On-The-Lake

Fri Jul 14 2023
AWA NIAGARA FESTIVAL

The 3rd edition of the AWA Niagara Festival 2023, presented by the African Women Acting (AWA) organization, celebrates African Cultural Heritage and special guest artists. The annual festival presents talented, hard-working, resilient artists, who demonstrate tremendous effort in pursuing their artistic visions and careers. The festival offers a full day, family-friendly program, with an action-packed schedule including professionally curated arts and crafts exhibitions, interactive African Djembe drumming workshops for all ages, dance, music, delicious authentic African and Canadian food, and vendors, all in one stunning site in celebration of the best of African and Canadian Music, artisans, and vendors.

Artists Roster  - August 26th

African Drum Circle -  Mohammed Diary Khadim Mbegue
Afrobeat Music/Dance - DJ Moussa
Alternative/Contemporary Music by J.A.S
Native Artist - Esther Jane Willow
RnB - Kyla Wheeler
RnB/Soul Music - Shake Street (Rob Leclerc)
Afrobeat - Exclusive Connection FT Tolu
African Drumming - Mohammed Diaby & Khadim  

What Showcase To Choose?

Fri Jul 07 2023
Peter Åstedt

Showcases are popping up like mushrooms in the world. I think I wrote about the subject a year ago and said that each country now has its own showcase festival. I correct that most countries now have three or four showcase festivals. In the end, they are too many, like I said on a panel on one of them recently and people gasp.

There are definitely too many of them and with this many, you can as an artist start to pick the ones that are needed for your career.

Dean Brody To Be Honoured With CCMA Award Of Achievement As The 2023 Recipient Of The Gary Slaight Music Humanitarian Award

Fri Jul 07 2023
Dean Brody

The Canadian Country Music Association® (CCMA®) Board of Directors and the CCMA are proud to announce Dean Brody as the 2023 recipient of the Gary Slaight Music Humanitarian Award, honouring the multiple CCMA Award winner for his remarkable achievements across numerous initiatives through The Dean Brody Foundation. Awarded annually, the Gary Slaight Music Humanitarian Award recognizes an individual(s) and/or event(s) that have made an outstanding contribution of time and energy in the support of humanitarian causes through country music.

Brody Will Be Celebrated For The Remarkable Achievements Of The Dean Brody Foundation During Country Music Week 2023, September 14-16 In Hamilton, Ontario. 

The MuchMusic Experience To Tour Canada In 13 Cities For One Night Only Events

Fri Jun 30 2023
The MuchMusic Experience

Following the worldwide debut at SXSW 2023, the documentary feature, 299 Queen Street West, is coming to Canadian venues. After each screening will be an Intimate & Interactive with iconic MuchMusic VJ’s and the Director, Sean Menard.

With unprecedented access to the MuchMusic archives, the two-hour feature tells the origin story and meteoric rise of the seminal music and pop culture brand, highlighting its beginnings as a scrappy Canadian television upstart.

Watch the doc trailer here:

A Hidden Treasure in Sweden – Meet Simon Roosé

Fri Jun 30 2023
Simon Roosé

Since Simon Roosé was five years old, he have wanted to be a musician. “It wasn't until I was 13 that I became completely obsessed with playing, creating, and listening to music. In the past eight years, I began my musical journey by singing in choirs. Later, I attended Christian 4:s Gymnasium in Kristianstad, where I experimented with many musical genres, including pop, rock, indie rock, hip-hop, jazz, funk, and fusion. I also studied a variety of instruments, including the guitar, drums, bass, and piano, but I fell in love with playing the guitar and have been playing the guitar as my main instrument ever since,” Simon tells us from his home in Sweden.

In addition to producing his own instrumental music, Simon eventually formed an indie band with some of his friends but as the story always goes the band eventually disbanded.

Redpath Traffic Collaborates with Music Legend Chris Birkett on New Single About Hiding As A Gay Man "Do You Love Me Now?"

Fri Jun 30 2023
Redpath Traffic

Hot off the heels of their most recent single "Hey Mona!", Toronto's terrific trio Redpath Traffic is striking a different chord with their latest release, "Do You Love Me Now?", featuring the legendary Chris Birkett on lap steel, keyboards, and backing vocals. Both tracks will be available on the group's debut LP Under The Crimson Sun, available everywhere this October. Check out “Do You Love Me Now?” on YouTube here:

 The electrifying brainchild of drummer Kerem Balci, bassist Mark Fernley, and guitarist/vocalist Rick Todd, Redpath Traffic creates genre-agnostic music that fuses blues and rock with a touch of punk, while weaving through their personal narratives of love, loss, redemption, and change.

Bruce Cockburn and Dar Williams The Royal Oak Music Theatre (USA)

Fri Jun 30 2023
Bruce Cockburn

To celebrate the release of his twenty-seventh studio album, the gorgeous O Sun O Moon, Bruce Cockburn will perform more than forty solo shows this year throughout North America and into the U.K. It is an ambitious schedule for any performer. At seventy-eight, with profound osteoarthritis and a congenital condition that limits his mobility, Cockburn sounds better than ever. His voice is clear and strong with a richer tone and perhaps greater range than in younger days. And his guitar playing, although not as acrobatic as it was forty years ago, is jaw-dropping. Playing the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan, in mid-June, the Canadian-born California resident demonstrated why he is recognized as one of the most important singer-songwriters and outstanding guitarists of his generation.

Agnes Mai – Soulful Beyond Her Years

Fri Jun 30 2023
Agnes MaI

Agnes Mai sings and plays the piano to her narrative pop songs with a lot of feeling and wisdom beyond her years. Her lyrics are often playful and written from a slightly unexpected perspective, and they can be about both the happy and difficult parts of life, taking you on a rollercoaster of emotions from joy to heartache and back again.

Even difficult things can turn into something beautiful in Agnes Mai's musical world. Agnes writes all her own songs as well as doing all her own productions, an amazing undertaking at such a young age, but when you listen her music she is writing and singing material beyond here age, with an ethereal way of presentation and delivery.

She has always loved making music, but started writing songs regularly in high school. Before that, she played a lot of covers, and was active in the choir in Lund, which has influenced her music and given her tools to create her own music. This shows in her song “Like a Virus”. Watch Agnes Mai with a live version of “Like a Virus” on YouTube here:

From Local Hero to Global Hero

Fri Jun 23 2023
Peter Åstedt

I have stopped going to Swedish galas. Recently it was the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm. You have never heard of the Polar Music Prize? I’m not surprised. To make it simple the fifth member of ABBA, Stickan Anderson left a big chunk of money to make a Nobel Prize for music. You get a Polar Prize for your good work in the music industry. And there are many famous artists that have gotten the prize like Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Max Martin, and BB King to mention a few.

In the beginning members of the music industry were invited also to the Gala. The problem has always been that the only real famous people have been that one big artist that won. A Gala with just one big artist and then a whole concert room full of nobodies. It’s not like the Grammy Awards in L.A or even better the Oscars where you really have famous people. Over the years they have tried to fix this problem by removing people from the music industry and replacing them with more famous people. Famous in that way that the general public in Sweden know who they are, not the global audience.

Canadian Music Week 2023 Soared in Success at the Westin Harbour Castle

Fri Jun 23 2023
Ivytide

Canadian Music Week 2023 was a highly anticipated event that brought together industry professionals, musicians, and music enthusiasts from across Canada and beyond. This 41st edition took place on June 8-10, 2023 and saw a welcome return to original location at the Westin Harbour Castle, which offers CMW regulars and newfound visitors a place to meet, network and exchange ideas. The Mentor’s Café featured global experts who sat down for short meetings with the purpose of advising and empowering developing artists and professionals to navigate the ever-evolving music landscape and stay ahead of industry trends.

Bruce Cockburn feat. Susan Aglukark "To Keep The World We Know" New Video Is Out Now

Fri Jun 23 2023
Bruce Cockburn

“Time takes its toll, but in my soul I’m on a roll,” Bruce Cockburn sings on his latest studio album, O Sun O Moon. Smart and catchy, it’s the kind of memorable line—like “gotta kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight” from his classic song “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”—the world has become used to hearing from Cockburn.

Watch the video Bruce Cockburn feat. Susan Aglukark - To Keep the World We Know on YouTube here:

SPIKE BULGARIAN FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SPIKE x IMB School Scholarship Opportunity

Fri Jun 16 2023
SPIKE BULGARIAN FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SPIKE x IMB School Scholarship Opportunity

SPIKE is proud to announce its partnership with International Music Business School and our inaugural scholarship! IMB School is the first school exclusively dedicated to the global music business and is backed by more than 15 years of experience developing leading training programs for professionals in the music sector.

The scholarship winner will receive a 1000 EUR endowment toward the cost of tuition for the IMB School Postgraduate Diploma in Music Business Mindset.

“Music Business Mindset” Diploma

The Artist Is In The Driver's Seat

Fri Jun 16 2023
Peter Åstedt

If you think that your future will be to get signed to a record label, think again. I read in several places that artists today must invest so much more before they are in alignment to be picked up by professionals in the industry. You must start thinking as an artist that you are your first label, your first publicist, your first publisher, and your first manager.

The future of the music industry will be consulting. There is not enough money to go around to be able to invest in new artists. In the old days, you invested dollars into 100 artists, and only 10 of them would make money, but on the other hand, these ten would bring in so much money that it paid for the other 90.

Today there is no one with a proper ROI plan that would invest in that way. The different streams of income make it so unpredictable. With the new digital tools, you can also wait until everything is stable to start to invest.

For an artist is not good enough to just have a good song. It’s not good enough to have a look. Instead, we expect that you come with good songs, a good image and a fanbase, along with a hell of a live show and also be an active professional on social media. 

Kardinal Offishall Receives Social Justice Award at Canadian Music Week

Fri Jun 16 2023
Kardinal Offishall

Canadian Music Week was proud to present Kardinal Offishall with the Social Justice Award at the CMW Music Summit on June 10, 2023 at the Westin Harbour Castle. Canadian media personality Master T hosted a keynote interview with Kardinal Offishall, followed by the presentation of this second annual award.

Social Justice is grounded in the idea that everyone deserves the full spectrum of political, economic and social rights, and opportunities. The annual Social Justice

Award recognizes a current artist/celebrity pursuing social justice and upholding the values of equality, respect and inclusion.

After years of earning global respect as one of Canada’s most energetic and innovative emcees, Kardinal Offishall has been a staple in the global music scene. He has collaborated on hit records such as “Beautiful” with Akon, “Just Dance” with Lady Gaga, “Numba 1” with Rihanna, and made history with his monster classic “Dangerous” which scorched to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, making him the first rapper from Canada to do so in history.

The Awesome Music Project June 21st In Support Of Young Adult Mental Health at the Legendary Elmo

Fri Jun 16 2023
The Awesome Music Project

Fefe Dobson, Tyler Shaw, Danny Michel, Nicolina Bozzo, Antonio Michael Downing And More Join The Awesome Music Project June 21st In Support Of Young Adult Mental Health, with live event and an online live auction.

Live Auction Items include:
- A pair of great seats to see Beyonce July 8th at the Rogers Centre on her Renaissance Tour

- A pair of Gold tickets to see a regular season Toronto Maple Leafs game during the 2023-24 season

- A guitar signed by everybody involved in the June 21st show

- A $1000 personal photography tutoring package with a professional editorial/commercial/portrait photographer

- An Altec-Lansing waterproof bluetooth portable speaker

Access the Live Auction here: https://www.charityauctionstoday.com/auctions/The-AMP-Salute-to-Frankie…

On June 21, 2023 at the legendary El Mocambo in Toronto, The Awesome Music Project will kick off summer with a night of music and storytelling you won’t soon forget.

Canadian Music Week International Awards for Agent and Promoter of the Year

Fri Jun 16 2023
Marty Diamond and Neill Dixon

Canadian Music Week was proud to present two major International Awards during the CMW Music Summit at the Westin Harbour Castle during the 41st Annual Festival. On Thursday June 8, CMW presented Executive Vice President and Managing Executive of Wasserman Music, Marty Diamond, with International Agent of the Year. On Friday June 9, CMW presented Michael Chugg, Founder/ CEO of Chugg Entertainment, with the International Promoter of the Year.

From Local Hero To Global Hero

Fri Jun 09 2023
From Local Hero To Global Hero

I have stopped going to Swedish Galas. The other day was the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm. You have never heard of the Polar Music Prize? I’m not surprised. To make it simple the fifth member of ABBA, Stickan Anderson left a big chunk of money to make a Nobel prize for music. You get a Polar Prize for your good work in the music industry. And there are many famous artists that have gotten the prize like Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Max Martin, and BB King to mention a few.

In the beginning members of the music industry were invited also to the Gala. The problem has always been that the only real famous people have been that one big artist that won. A Gala with just one big artist and then a whole concert room full of nobodies. It’s not like the Grammy Awards in L.A or even better the Oscars where you really have famous people. Over the years they have tried to fix this problem by taking out people from the music industry and replacing them with more famous people. Famous in that way that the general public in Sweden know who they are, not the global audience.