Canadian Musician magazine is bringing Live Music Producer Tom Jackson to Toronto for a workshop on Sunday, December 4, 2011, bumped back from the previous date of October 29th. The one-time only, one-day seminar will run from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St. W. in Toronto on the new date.
Harris Institute will celebrate the life of one of Canada’s most respected record producers with the presentation of the first “Jack Richardson Award” and $1,000 to its top graduating student on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at a lobster Awards Dinner at Captain John’s on Toronto’s waterfront.
Jack Richardson, who passed away at 81 on May 31, 2011, is a Member of the Order Of Canada and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and a recipient of the SOCAN Special Achievement Award. He produced 38 gold and platinum records by The Guess Who, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, Rough Trade, The Association, Poco, Badfinger, The Irish Rovers, Max Webster, The Boss Brass, David Clayton Thomas, Bobby Curtola, Moxy, The Brecker Brothers, Hagood Hardy and countless others at his Nimbus 9 Studios in Yorkville.
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LA Music Academy is offering $100,000 in institutional grants to qualified applicants for the school’s bass department. Bass players interested in attending school for the Fall 2011 semester, which kicks off October 3, 2011, have until August 15th to turn in applications. Canadians are eligible.
Jerry Watts heads the bass department at LA Music Academy, which offers a bass music performance degree among its instrumental and music production programs. “A lot of musicians incorrectly assume a formal music education is out of their financial means, but with these grants, financial aid and scholarships available, you will be surprised to see how feasible it is to attend LA Music Academy, one of the top music colleges in the world,” says Watts. (more…)
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