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Music industry dynamo Pegi Cecconi worked with top Canadian talents

Open this photo in gallery:Pegi Cecconi was known far and wide in the music industry as the 'Queen of Everything.'HandoutEleven years ago, the Canadian rock band Rush was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles. Inside the Nokia Theatre, at the table closest to the stage, sat Pegi Cecconi and the other executives of Toronto-based SRO Management Inc. and Anthem Entertainment […]

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Lil TJay & Kalan.FrFr To Live The ‘Good Life’ On Canadian Tour

Lil Tjay is heading north of the border for his Good Life Canada Tour, and he’s bringing Kalan.Frfr along for the ride.Launching on Thursday (April 4), the seven-date trek will make its way through the country’s major cities before wrapping in Calgary on April 17.Tjay will then head to Europe to continue the tour with Sainté.Check out the full list of dates below.April4 – St. John’s, NL – Mary Brown’s […]

todayApril 3, 2024 2

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Canadian rock musician Tom Cochrane cancels Prince Albert show amidst local CUPE strike

In support of an ongoing strike by local CUPE members, Tom Cochrane's show in Prince Albert will not go on.The Canadian Music Hall of Fame member announced the cancellation of his sold-out Friday show at the EA Rawlinson Centre for the Arts in the Saskatchewan city, and his support for the public service workers' union strike, in a Facebook post Wednesday."We have continuously worked with the folks at the EA Rawlinson Theatre hoping […]

todayNovember 22, 2023 2

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Veteran musician David Baxter championed Canadian songwriters

Open this photo in gallery:A gifted guitarist, a self-deprecating singer-songwriter, David Baxter (pictured in 2017) was a committed mentor to many Canadian musicians over the years and a musical lifer.HandoutOn April 2, 2008, guitarist David Baxter was offered a gig in Toronto on three days’ notice and with barely any details attached. He was to show up at 178 Victoria St. by 5 p.m., with a guitar. There would be […]

todayNovember 17, 2023 1

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How Canadian R&B artists like Drake and Justin Bieber complicate ideas of race, music and nationality

Drake and Justin Bieber are among the biggest popular music stars in the world. Part of their appeal has been blurring pop, hip-hop and R&B — music genres the music business has traditionally segregated along racialized lines. My doctoral research has examined how Drake, Bieber and Jessie Reyez each innovatively approach R&B music — and build distinctly Canadian lifestyle brands that reinforce, complicate and/or challenge dominant beliefs about Canadian identities […]

todayOctober 12, 2023 2

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Hundreds of mourners pay respects to Canadian, 22, who moved to Israel to join the army but was killed by Hamas at music festival

A young Canadian who moved to Israel to join the army but was killed by Hamas at a music festival on Saturday, was laid to rest this afternoon at an emotional funeral.Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their respects to 22-year-old Ben Mizrachi who was originally from Vancouver, at the Kvutsat Yavne cemetery near Ashdod.Ben's remains were found among the hundreds corpses that lay scattered around the Supernova rave held […]

todayOctober 11, 2023 2

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Robbie Robertson: Six Nations remembers Canadian music icon

Six Nations of the Grand River is remembering Canadian music icon and The Band lead guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson. The Toronto-born artist was of Mohawk and Cayuga descent. He spent summers at the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve where his mother Rosemarie Dolly Chrysler grew up. “Six Nations of the Grand River sends its deepest condolences to Mr. Robertson’s family. He should be remembered […]

todayAugust 11, 2023 5

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Canadian singer Kathleen Edwards is part of this year’s Outlaw Music Festival | Sights & Sounds

Kathleen Edwards is part of this year's traveling Outlaw Music Festival, but you will most definitely not find her on a tour bus."I think they're awful," Edwards explained on the phone last week, in the midst of running errands before hitting the road. Rather than take her chances with a bus, Edwards is instead going from gig to gig in her own pickup truck, getting behind the wheel and hooking […]

todayAugust 3, 2023 2

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