A reminder for all female musicial artists across Canada, the 2014 Honey Jam Auditions will be held this Sunday, June 1 at 2 p.m. at the Mod Club in Toronto. The following information is from www.honeyjam.com.

Sunday, June 1, 2014 2:00 pm

The Mod Club

722 College Street, Toronto

Honey Jam is searching the country for female artists, ages 14-25, representing pop, hip hop, jazz, soca, r&b, gospel, rock, dancehall, blues, alternative, opera, country – all styles of music!

Admission is $10.00 for everyone – spectators and artists.

We STRONGLY suggest you arrive by 1:00pm to register as there are a limited number of audition spots.

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Longtime and prolific Canadian Musician contributor Kevin Young was out and about during Canadian Music Week 2014 in Toronto, taking in panels by day and showcases by night. Here’s what he took away from the fest.

Without a doubt, the star of CMW 2014 was the weather. Given the unholy, soul destroying winter we had and the unreasonably late spring, which seems to only have started a week or so ago, the choice by the organizers to move the festival to May seems prescient.

Maybe it was that, or maybe not, but after reconnecting with some of the folks I’ve worked with very closely over time but hadn’t seen for some 10 years, they seemed more hopeful than ever.

The bottom line may have changed for a lot of us, musicians and industry professionals alike, over the past decade and change, but at the core, the reason we all got into this in the first place was a passion for music. If you’ve stuck it out, regardless of what you do in the business, it’s a good bet your gig has changed substantially over the years.

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Members of the pro AV community will come together on May 29, 2014, for the 14^th annual Pro AV Golf Tournament at the Glen Eagle Golf Club in Caledon, ON.

All the money raised from the tournament will go to Friends of Music Therapy, which supports the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children Music Therapy Program. The registration fee for golfers is $145 and that includes green fees, power carts, lunch, and a barbeque dinner, plus all taxes and gratuities.

Glen Eagle is a 27-hole championship golf course northwest of Toronto, which has been one of the premiere courses in the Greater Toronto Area for more than 40 years.

For more information and/or to register for the Pro AV Golf Tournament, go to www.proavgolf.com.

If you’re out and about for CMW any time between now and end-of-day Saturday, come say hello. Norris-Whitney Communications, the parent company of Canadian Musician and MusicBooksPlus.com, has a booth RIGHT at the bottom of the escalator going down to the Conference section at the Toronto Downtown Marriott by the Eaton Centre.

We’ve got plenty of hot music industry titles for sale, you can meet our editorial staff and contributors, and on Saturday afternoon, you’ll have the chance to get books signed by authors Martin Melhuish (Oh, What a Feeling!), Bob d’Eith (A Career in Music: The Other 12-Step Program), Ralph Murphy (Murphy’s Laws of Songwriting) and Jeff & Todd Brabec (Music Money and Success).

Cheers!