Erikson Audio has launched its new Home Recording Sweepstakes contest with a prize pack worth over $1,000.
The prize pack includes:
For more information and/or to enter, go Erikson Audio’s Facebook page HERE.
Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS) will be hosting “Playing Nice in the Sandbox” on Wednesday, Sept. 17 from 6-8 p.m. at the Duke of York Pub in Toronto (29 Prince Arthur Ave.). It is designed to be a panel discussion of leading media lawyers with expertise in film/TV, music, books and periodical publishing, and interactive digital media and video games, who will discuss the various legal agreement artists should be familiar with, along with how to get them and how to stay out of trouble.
The International Music Software Trade Association (IMSTA) held the inaugural Toronto edition of its IMSTA FESTA music technology show on Sept. 6 at Ryerson University.
Throughout the day, songwriters, musicians, DJs, and producers took in exhibits, demos, and educational hands-on courses put on by over 40 brands that covered all areas of music creation. The theatre was filled beyond capacity for the keynote speech by producer/audio engineer/DJ Young Guru. As well, panels and presentations on SOCAN, music publishing and licencing, self-promotion, and EDM business development drew full crowds throughout the day. It ended with a standing-room-only crowd who was there to the Cooking Beats seminar by Rich Kidd and Ebony “WondaGurl” Oshunrinde.
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Each month Canadian Musician will highlight a different book, brought to us by Music Books Plus, and share with our fans. These books will be full of value, advice, and help kick start, jump, and advance your career in music.
This month, we recommend reading Music Marketing for the DIY Musician by Bobby Borg. This book is your guide to producing a step-by-step fully customized, low budget plan to market your music. It is a culmination of Borg’s 25 years of experience as a musician and entrepreneur plus over a decade of research involving thousands of independent artists and marketing experts around the world.
Samantha Everts, founder of YouRockRed, was on the ground in Ottawa covering the 2014 Arboretum Festival for Canadian Musician. The lineup was stacked for indie and alt fans, with a recently-reunited Constantines joining the likes of Kevin Drew, Chad VanGaalen and Julie Doiron as headliners. Check out a selection of Sam’s shots…
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.
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…)
Canadian Musician‘s Bart Nowak (www.nowakimages.com) was onsite in Kitchener, ON for the 2014 edition of Big Music Fest. This year’s festival featured monster headliners like Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Styx, Slash, Big Wreck, Moist, and more. Check below for some great shots of this year’s performers, and congratulations to The Modern Hearts for winning the 2014 Breaking Bands contest. The band has earned a spot on the main stage for Big Music Fest 2015, and one can only guess as to who else will be featured on that stage…
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