Canada’s largest rights management organization, SOCAN, serves and champions more than 150,000 Canadian music creators, music publishers, and visual artists. In practical terms, SOCAN issues licenses for the performance and reproduction of music, as well as for the reproduction of… »
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Montreal’s Indian summer is African this year. And it lasts 34 days
One Montreal festival I try not to miss each July is the Festival International Nuits d’Afrique (FINA). The festival re-invented itself this year to survive the pandemic and will be celebrating its 34th anniversary with live shows and a lineup… »
Arts & Entertainment, Indigenous
In Eastern Canada, Musique Nomade stands by Indigenous musicians
Since my first Safe&Sound column on throat singing, I meant to explore Canada’s Indigenous music scene. In Quebec, the most important stakeholder is undoubtedly Musique Nomade, a Montreal-based, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and producing up-and-coming Indigenous musicians. Based on… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Orientalys festival brings music to the virtual stage, ‘as if you were there’
Montreal, the city of 100 festivals, was to celebrate this August the 10th anniversary of one its most recent cultural events, Orientalys Festival. Although there won’t be any food stands nor big stages erected on the Old Port this year,… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees, International
US and Canadian festivals team up for a month of virtual world music shows
When festivals wish to bring in international artists, their task is facilitated and the tour costs are reduced if they can book the same artists, especially if the dates and locations of the shows are close enough. This collaborative practise,… »
Arts & Entertainment, Internet, Science & Technology
Safe&Sound-Montreal’s Mural Estival closes the summer with street art and music
In a city where festivals are almost as numerous as churchtowers, a summer event that cannot go unnoticed is Montreal MURAL Festival. Usually happening over a dozen days in mid-June with a flurry of visual art, installations and music acts… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees, International
“Fait Vivir”, a road movie about Canadian music gypsies in Colombia
His given name is Manuk. Manuk Aukán. A name that was inspired by Chile’s Mapuche Indigenous tribe, a volcanic island in Indonesia, and an Armenian name meaning “child”. A camera follows him everywhere: on his mother’s back in chilly Montreal… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees, Indigenous, International
Music industry delegates meet online at a new global conference in Toronto
During the last week of July, hundreds of music professionals around the world connected to their computers to take part in a music conference out of Toronto, with online activities and discussions about current challenges and coming perspectives in a… »
Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees
Brazilian artist Diogo Ramos sings his love for Quebec, diversity and freedom
Freedom, Liberté, Liberdade. Diogo Ramos now sings these words in three languages – English, French and Portuguese – as he released officially this month the videoclip for the single Liberté je t’aime (Freedom, I love you) during a impromptu show… »
Arts & Entertainment, International
Canada’s diversity and mix of cultures reflected in top music prize – Part 2
Last week, we had a first peek at the shortlist of Canadian artists that were selected by the jurors of the Polaris Music Prize, which was announced last Wednesday on CBC. Among the 10 albums that were considered the best… »
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