News Archive
The Songwriters Association of Canada provides regular updates on the economic and cultural climate for music creators in Canada and abroad. Stay up to date with the S.A.C.’s work by checking the news archive below and following along on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Please also visit our events page for opportunities to collaborate in person and online.
Featured Member: Ari Rhodes
Ari Rhodes is a Juno-nominated songwriter, composer, and producer based in Toronto, Canada. Originally from Rhodes, Greece, Ari began his career at the age of 14 as a house music…
Featured Member: Serena Ryder
Just for the record, you could easily be staring a Serena Ryder triple album in the face right now. It might have taken four-and-a-half years for this celebrated Toronto singer/songwriter…
Featured Member: Shawnee Talbot
Two Spirit singer songwriter and powerhouse artist making medicine with music. Shawnee is a Mohawk music artist Billboard has named one of their ‘Top Gender Bending Artists” for her work…
Featured Member: Danny Michel
The only good thing about not shopping in record stores anymore is you won’t have to figure out what genre to look for Danny under. If that were the case,…
Featured Member: Damhnait Doyle
“Liquor Store Flowers” is the first solo oeuvre from Newfoundlander Damhnait Doyle in 11 years; Doyle was working with The Heartbroken, doing film work, and participating on Boards of the…
Featured Member: Shari Ulrich
Long before her induction to the British Columbia Entertainment Hall of Fame, Californian-Canadian Shari Ulrich entered the world in San Rafael, California on October 17, 1951. At the age of…
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.…
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…
Featured Member: TiKA
TiKA is an artist, actor, DJ, creator, cultural producer, TV/Online personality, activist, and advocate for the empowerment of female artists and creators. TiKA makes an impression on everyone she encounters…
Featured Member: Susan Passmore
Sue Passmore is a co-founder and member of the Canadian band, Good Lovelies. In her 12-year professional career as a songwriter and performer with the Good Lovelies, she has won…
Spotify Ep. 8. West Coast
Greetings, fellow Songwriters! Here we have another cool playlist for this year – Ep. 8. West Coast. This playlists consists of submissions we had over the course of the last…
Featured Member: Karen Kosowski
Producer and songwriter Karen Kosowski has one foot in the pop world and the other foot in the country world. She has produced a US Pop Radio Top 40 (Tryon’s…