Featured Member: Patrick Ballantyne
Patrick Ballantyne is a busy man. The singer-songwriter’s other occupations include C.E.O. of the Registered Insurance Brokers of Ontario, as well as Board Chair at the Songwriters Association of Canada.…
Month: May 2019
S.A.C. Featured Member, Lennie Gallant, Inducted Into The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
A song taking on its own life is surely among the most gratifying of events in the life of a songwriter. As “Peter’s Dream” turns 25 years old and its…
Featured Member: Lorraine Klaasen, A Precious and Rare South African Musical Artist in Canada
40 square miles of misery. With a few cold water taps shared by thousands of people, Soweto, with its tiny shanties on scrublands, had some of the worst living conditions…
The Artz of Schwartz – Eddie Schwartz inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
The keyboards were turned up. New synthesizers kept hitting the market. The guitars were getting pushed back, the horns started to sound more like keyboards, and keyboards began to emulate…
Featured Member: Jay Semko
Jay Semko is known internationally as singer/bassist with multiple JUNO Award nominees and Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame members The Northern Pikes, and as an award winning music composer…