Your #1 Job As a Music Artist? Create Demand for Your Music
With millions of new songs released every month on multiple streaming sites, it’s up to indie artists to make sure they have a presence in the marketplace. How do you…
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Folk Musician Stan Rogers Honored on Canadian Stamp
Canada Post has commemorated the late Stan Rogers on a new illustrated stamp with the singer-songwriter singing and playing guitar against a background of Nova Scotia’s Fogerty Cove. The performance…
Songwriters Association of Canada Announces, “Women of S.A.C.” Live Stream Concert on April 21
Line Up Features Five Incredible Female Songwriters Toronto, ON – The Songwriters Association of Canada is proud to announce the Celebration Series Songbird North Women of S.A.C. live stream concert…
Featured Member: Isabelle Banos
Isabelle Banos is a Montreal-based producer, songwriter and a founding member of thealternative pop band Caveboy, in which she plays bass and synthesizers. She has performed across Canada, showcased throughout…
COVID-19 Information & Resources for Canada’s Music Industry (Prepared by CIMA)
As the music community comes together during the novel COVID-19 pandemic, we hope to keep you informed of developments as they roll out. Artists, performers, and musicians are without income,…
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: 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…
In Memory of Justin Haynes, 1973-2019
Justin Grant Alan Haynes was born February 24, 1973. As a boy growing up in Dunrobin, now on the outskirts of the amalgamated city of Ottawa, he attended school in…
S.A.C. Black History Songwriters Series: Lillian Allen
Writer; Poet; Performer; dub poetry embodies these three characteristics, distinguishing it from singers or poets. As a pioneer in the dub poetry world, Lillian Allen has written, recorded and performed…