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Canadian Music Week Features Industry Luminaries & Music Festival
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- Category: Music
- Published on Friday, 31 May 2024 20:37
- Written by Brad Balfour
Now in its 42nd year, Canadian Music Week is Canada's leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the Canadian music, media and entertainment industries. Combining indepth conferences; a trade exposition; awards shows and the nation's largest new music festival. The CMW festival features acts including Walk Off The Earth, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Ekali, Lola Brooke, and many more.
As part of its conference, the CMW also features a keynote interview with DJ/Producer deadmau5. Other panel discussions feature Jeremy Elrich (Spotify’s Global Head of Music), and promoter Bill Silva. Tom Jackson's Live Music Makeover has the renowned Live Music Producer, Author and Speaker Tom Jackson transform your onstage presence. With an impressive resume that includes collaborations with A-listers like Taylor Swift, Magic!, Shawn Mendes, and The Band Perry, Tom Jackson is a master at turning good performances into great ones. This masterclass is designed for musicians dedicated to their craft and ready to elevate their stage presence to the next level.
The conference will also feature award ceremonies and more panel discussions, while the music festival side brings the tunes.
To learn more, go to: https://cmw.net/
Canadian Music Week
June 1- 8, 2024
Various Venues
Toronto, Ontario
Governors Ball Features Good Tunes & Good Eats
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Music
- Published on Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:49
- Written by Brad Balfour
One of New York’s biggest musical events is back. The Governors Ball will be at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, June 7 to 9th. Friday June 7th’s headliners are Post Malone and Rauw Alejandro. Other acts include Dominic Fike, Labrinth, Farruko, Alex G, Yung Gravy, Flo, Durry, and more.
Saturday, June 8th features The Killers, 21 Savage, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sabrina Carpenter, TV Girl, D4VD, Jessie Murphy, The Thing, and Teezo Touchdown, among others.
Sunday, June 9th, closes out the ball with SZA, Peso Pluma, Reneé Rapp, Baby Queen, Don Toliver, Chappell Roan, Beach Fossils, and more.
Looking for a bite duing the show? The Governors Ball also features stands from some of the top food vendors in NY, including Dank Nugs, Bel-Fries, No Good Burger, Takumi Tacos, Flaming Wok, Sweet Chick, and so much more.
To learn more, go to: https://www.governorsballmusicfestival.com/
The Governors Ball
June 7 - 9, 2024
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY
Out Music Festival - The Future is Pissed! Presents Jazz With a Mission
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Music
- Published on Sunday, 28 January 2024 11:06
- Written by Brad Balfour
Presented by Arts for Art the Out Music Festival - The Future is Pissed! is a music fest with a mission. Running January 29th to February 4th at the Theater for the New City, the Out Music Festival features a diverse group of performers rallying together to support each other as we live, create, and work for a world with peace, compassion, justice, and the arts against ideologies of division and destruction.
Performers include William Parker Organic Music, Tomeka Reid, Alfredo Colon Group, BREW, Shamanic Principle, William Hooker Trio, and many more.
FourOneOne is co-producing this special event with Arts for Art. FourOneOne is a non-profit organization supporting historically aware and rooted performance practices across genres, enabling New York’s many audiences to engage with multiplicity and alternative approaches to time and space.
To learn more, go to: https://www.artsforart.org/out-festival.html
Out Music Festival
January 29 - February 4, 2024
Theater for the New City
155 1st Ave.
New York, NY 10003
2024 NYC Winter Jazzfest
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- Category: Music
- Published on Monday, 08 January 2024 17:03
- Written by Brad Balfour
Vibrant, diverse, and wild, the NYC jazz scene has thrived for decades and that history is encapsulated in the NYC Winter Jazzfest. Running January 10 to the 18th at venues across NYC, the festival is now in its 20th season.
“Yes, it’s our 20th season,” says founder and producer Brice Rosenbloom. “We began in 2005 at the Knitting Factory on Leonard St., with the mission of highlighting music that deserved wider attention while the APAP conference was in town, and to a large degree that mission remains. But over the years that mission grew, to focus on artists with meaningful messages, in the desire to serve as a beacon for racial and gender justice, action on climate change, migration, mass incarceration and other pressing issues that affect so many of us.”
Returning performers include Marc Ribot, Jason Moran, Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber, Nduduzo Makhathini, Meg Okura, Jason Lindner, Aaron Parks, and Mary Halvorson.
On January 11 is a duo set at Dizzy’s with the great Joe Lovano (preceded by a intimate chat at Jazz Congress on the “Universality of Jazz”), and artist-in-residence Shabaka will take part in both Marathon nights in ensembles including Jason Moran, Saul Williams, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and more.
On January 17th is Celebrating Ryuichi Sakamoto, a tribute to the legendary performer on what would have been his 72nd birthday. The Sakamoto Tribute Ensemble (led by violinist Meg Okura and cellist Rubin Kodheli) will perform Sakamoto’s works, alongside special guests speaking at the performance.
Along with an extensive slate of performers are the Jazz Talks, panel discussions that reflect on jazz history and the music industry.
To learn more, go to: https://www.winterjazzfest.com/
2024 NYC Winter Jazzfest
January 10 - 18, 2024
Various Venues in New York City
