At the upcoming IMSTA FESTA show on Sept. 6 in Toronto, Canadian Musician Publisher Jim Norris will be giving a free seminar that will show you how to promote your band, your business, or your career. Learn insider, no B.S. tips that you can put into practice the next day.

At Self Promotion 101, you will learn:

– How to develop a product, service or act that everybody wants
– How to price yourself and be competitive
– Where to locate your business, your band or yourself and how to discover new markets
– How to use all the best tools available to get the word out
– How to prevail and outlast all your competition

Saturday, September 6, 4:00 PM at IMSTA FESTA, Ryerson School of Media, Toronto

Details at: http://www.imsta.org/imsta_festa_2014_TO.php

Register for IMSTA FESTA at: http://imsta.org/imsta_festa_2014_TO.php

Canadian Musician had contributor Kristian Partington and photographer Bart Nowak of NowakImages.com onsite for Heavy Montreal 2014. You can read our initial post by clicking here, and for your viewing pleasure, here’s another heap of awesome shots courtesy of Nowak Images.

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Canadian Musician writer Kristian Partington and photographer Bart Nowak of NowakImages.com were in Montreal for this year’s edition of Heavy Montreal, featuring a stacked lineup of hard-edged bands from the metal, punk, hardcore, and hard rock worlds. In addition to headliners like Metallica, Slayer, and Three Days Grace, the bill also included Canadian outfits like Protest the Hero, Monster Truck, and Fucked Up. Thanks to Kristian for the words and Bart for the images.

About three quarters of the way through Metallica’s two-and-half-hour set at the end of Heavy Montreal’s first day, iconic frontman James Hetfield spoke of the “Metallica family” – the fans who’ve helped the band become a global heavy metal institution. Though Hetfield’s exact words escape me, the gist of that quick, blurry moment between songs in my memory was this: he thanked the old members of this worldwide family, those millions who’ve seen the band live in countless venues over the years, and he welcomed those for whom this pulsing Montreal show at Parc Jean Drapeau was an initiation. (more…)