MANITOBA MUSIC'S SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
FRIENDS OF MANITOBA MUSIC
aceartinc. is an artist run centre dedicated to the development, exhibition and dissemination of contemporary art by cultural producers.
Offering 2D/3D Animation, post effects, editing and compositing for film and broadcast.
An annual festival in downtown Winnipeg that includes a competition pow wow, education conference, Indigenous marketplace, and the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards.
Manitoba Homecoming is a year long experience in 2010 to bring former and current Manitobans, visitors, family and friends together for events, festivals and an all-around great celebration!
PLATFORM: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts is a venue for exhibition, production, and education pertaining to all aspects of photo-based media.
Tourism Winnipeg is Winnipeg's economic development and tourism services agency. Their mandate is to market the city and provide services to facilitate economic development and tourism opportunities for Winnipeg in collaboration with partners.
Winnipeg's free lifestyle paper, also available online.
CANADIAN CAMPUS/COMMUNITY RADIO
CANADIAN FESTIVALS
The Brandon Folk, Music and Art Society Inc. is dedicated to promoting emerging and innovative multi-arts presentation with an emphasis on cultural and inter-disciplinary diversity in the southwestern Manitoba region.
Set in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, the Canadian Deep Roots Music Festival is an annual September event enjoyed by music lovers of all ages. With this picturesque university town and its beautiful natural surroundings as the backdrop, the Canadian Deep Roots Music Festival brings together some of the finest folk and roots singers, songwriters and musicians in the world for a weekend of concerts, workshops and celebration.
The Edmonton Jazz Festival Society is dedicated to providing a professional and supportive environment for jazz artists to perform, collaborate, and celebrate with the people of Edmonton, jazz music from across the globe. Formed in 2005, the Edmonton Jazz Festival Society produces an annual International Jazz Festival, supports and presents the Edmonton Jazz Orchestra, and supports and presents the Jazzworks education outreach programs to support the jazz tradition in Edmonton.
Picture a modern, yet historic city taken over by a music festival and 1.5 million festival goers. Twelve indoor and outdoor stages, venues where you can gather to celebrate and to discover what's new, on which a string of international superstars, along with top new talent play for a full 11 days! In all, more than 1,000 artists and close to 300 shows spanning Rock, French song, hip-hop, electro, jazz, classical music and world music greats.
A lively festival along West Vancouver's waterfront. Every summer for the last 21 years locals and guests from across the Lower Mainland have come to relax, enjoy and take in the arts, the music and the visual diversity that is Harmony Arts.
The Hillside Community Festival is a not-for-profit music festival that celebrates creativity through artistic expression, community engagement and environmental leadership.
The Peterborough Folk Festival (PFF) is a volunteer-run, non-profit, incorporated organization dedicated to promoting music, culture, and community in the City of Peterborough. Now entering our twenty-second year, the PFF has diversified its goals, reaching beyond 'traditional' or 'folk' music and presenting established as well as emerging artists from a broad variety of genres and traditions.
For ten days each summer, the city of Saskatoon bursts into song as the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival plays host to hundreds of world class artists. Over 70,000 hungry music fans devour the sounds of jazz, blues, funk, pop, and world music each year, with a program that spans as many genres as it does continents.
What began in 1987 as an eight day showcase of jazz now attracts in excess of 500,000 loyal patrons annually over 10 days. Attractions include more than 350 performances with over 1,500 musicians performing at approximately 40 locations around Toronto. The heart of the Festival is now located at Metro Square in the heart of Toronto's Entertainment District with an impressive 1,200 seat fully-licensed Mainstage Marquee and outdoor stage, and where many extraordinary events are offered free to the public.
The Victoria Jazz Society was founded in 1981. We produce two major multi-day music festivals every summer, TD Victoria International JazzFest, and the Vancouver Island Blues Bash, as well as a series of concerts from September to May every year.
FUNDING AGENCIES
MUSIC CONFERENCES
A list of Canadian arts presenters conferences on the Canada Council website.
A listing of US arts presenter conferences on the Canada Council website.
January | New York, NY
November | Toronto, ON
September | Varied location
March | Toronto, ON
February | Memphis, TN
April | Varied location
October | Varied location
January | Cannes, FRANCE
April | West Hollywood, CA
April | Vancouver, BC
June | Toronto, ON
October | Varied location
October | Montreal, QC
March | Austin, TX
October | Winnipeg, MB
MUSIC INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
MUSIC ORGANIZATIONS
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) was formed in 1975 as an umbrella not-for-profit organization for The JUNO Awards - Canada's Music Awards, MusiCounts, Canada's music education program associated with CARAS and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
CARAS's mandate is to promote and celebrate Canadian music and artists.
The Canadian Arts Presenting Association/l'Association canadienne des organismes artistiques (CAPACOA) serves the performing arts touring and presenting community through its commitment to integrate the performing arts into the lives of all Canadians. CAPACOA takes initiative in providing leadership, knowledge, communications, skills development and advocacy on behalf of its members and within the arts presenting community.
CIMA (formerly CIRPA) is the trade organization representing the independent sector of the Canadian music and sound recording industry and the collective voice of independent music in English-speaking Canada.
The Canadian Organization of Campus Activities, better known by its acronym COCA, represents more than 65 post-secondary institutions across the country from British Columbia to Newfoundland.
COCA also has more than 100 artist and associate members. Typically, artist and associate members are entertainers, booking agencies, artist management, and other suppliers to the campus entertainment and programming industry.
OTHER LOCAL MUSIC RESOURCS
RESOURCES - MUSIC LAW
Questions about music law? Here are some resources to help you.
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), a Special Operating Agency (SOA) associated with Industry Canada, is responsible for the administration and processing of the greater part of intellectual property in Canada. CIPO's areas of activity include trade-marks and copyrights.
The Board is an economic regulatory body empowered to establish, either mandatorily or at the request of an interested party, the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works, when the administration of such copyright is entrusted to a collective-administration society. The Board also has the right to supervise agreements between users and licensing bodies and issues licences when the copyright owner cannot be located.
Free legal advice on almost every aspect of music law including royalties, intellectual property, copyright, contracts, music publishing and much more.
Musicians (and writers and artists) need to protect their intellectual property, i.e., their compositions, sound recordings, album cover art work, writings and band logos. Hopefully, this web page will assist musicians in this regard and provide them with resource links helpful to the promotion of their music.
RESOURCES - SONGWRITING
RESOURCES - USEFUL WEBSITES
Ariel Hyatt is the founder of Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR a New York based digital firm that connects artists to blogs, podcasts, Internet radio stations and social media sites. Over the past 13 years her firm has represented over 1,400 musicians of all genres.
A UK website with info about working in the industry and interviews with prominent industry insiders.
Helping musicians, songwriters and industry careerists start and grow successful music businesses through vital information and creative management strategies.
Tom Jackson, the #1 Live Music Producer in music today, helps artists develop their show into "unique memorable moments."
He has worked with nearly every genre from rock to pop to Christian Gospel. Artists that have learned from Tom have had hundreds of #1 songs, sold millions of records, and played to countless millions live. But his teaching will help anyone who performs onstage!
The Red Bull Music Academy is an event that travels the world. A yearly celebration of all the journeys and breakthroughs, all the dreams and intricacies that go into the music we love. For two weeks, you'll be checking gear, chatting on tunes, and spinning in clubs, while getting a rare glimpse into local musical hybrids in a different country. Inbetween times, you can talk to people from around the world who started revolutions in sound. They're the people we look up to, and they're looking to you for a fresh perspective in turn.
A great collection of links from out friends at Smallman.
In the Resource/Education section, you'll find a wide variety of useful information. We offer everything from a set of all applicable SOCAN tariffs and a glossary of licensing terms, to a list of educational institutions and music-related funding bodies. Also included are links to most of the organizations and associations listed.
RIGHTS MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS
The Musicians' Rights Organization Canada (MROC) is a non-profit collective that collects and distributes royalties for performers. These royalties are payable under copyright legislation and reflect the rights of performers to be paid fairly for the broadcast and public performance of their recorded works. In Canada, these royalties cover a variety of broadcasts, including commercial radio, CBC radio, satellite radio and background music.
These performer royalties (also referred to as neighbouring rights royalties) are a relatively recent development. Prior to an amendment to the Canadian Copyright Act in 1997, performers were not paid when the recordings on which they had played were performed in Canada. Only composers and lyricists of music (and their publishers) received performing rights royalties (through SOCAN) when their music was performed.
Until recently, only songwriters have received royalties when their songs have been broadcast. Organizations like SOCAN are responsible for distributing these royalties to songwriters. Now, because of legislation that recognizes the contribution of performers in the creation of sound recordings, royalties are also available for performers. MROC is responsible for distributing these royalties to performers.
How it works -- if you are a musician or vocalist that has performed as a featured or background performer on a sound recording, MROC may have royalties for you.
We at MROC are also committed to providing you with information and key links to music-related organizations and events that will assist in the development of your career. Check out our resources page for more details.
This division of ACTRA is responsible for distributing neighbouring rights royalties. Musicians can assign their neighbouring rights to ACTRA-PRS regardless of whether or not they are members of the AFM union.
ASCAP is a non-profit performance rights organization that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly. ASCAP collects licensing fees from users of music created by ASCAP members, then distributes them back to its members as royalties.
AVLA administers licensing in Canada for the reproduction of sound recordings and reproduction and broadcast of music videos on behalf of master recording copyright owners (usually, record companies). They distribute these royalties, as well as neighbouring rights and private copying remuneration, to eligible sound recording owners.
BMI is a US performing rights organization. It collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
The CMRRA is a licensing agency that represents music publishers in Canada. CMRRA licenses the reproduction of music on CD's and cassettes (mechanical licensing) and in films, television programs and other audio-visual productions (synchronization licensing). They collect royalties and distribute them to publishers, who in turn distribute the songwriter's portion to the songwriter.
An online intellectual property organizer and time-stamping tool using electronic postmarks from the United States Postal Service.
The CPCC is the non-profit agency charged with collecting and distributing private copying royalties, generated by levies on recordable media. An umbrella organization that represents songwriters, recording artists, music publishers and record companies, the CPCC collects royalties and distributes them to all of the organizations mentioned above, for distribution to their members.
CSI is a joint venture of two copyright collectives that represent the reproduction rights of songwriters and music publishers for the purposes of collecting Broadcast mechanical income and online income directly from the user. The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA), based in Toronto, and the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada (SODRAC) Inc., based in Montreal, together represent almost all musical works from around the world.
Re:Sound is the Canadian not-for-profit music licensing company dedicated to obtaining fair compensation for artists and record companies for their performance rights. On behalf of its members, representing thousands of artists and record companies, Re:Sound licenses recorded music for public performance, broadcast and new media.
Re:Sound is also a member of the Canadian Private Copying Collective, created to receive private copying levies from the manufacturers and importers of blank audio recording media.
SESAC, originally the Society of European Stage Authors & Composers, is the smallest of the three performance rights organizations in the United States and prides itself on developing individual relationships with both songwriters and publishers. Whereas ASCAP and BMI operate on a not-for-profit basis, SESAC retains some income as profit. SESAC is also unique among the US performing rights organisations in that it does not offer open membership - one must be approved to join.
SOCAN is a Performing Rights Organization that represents songwriters and publishers. SOCAN licenses the public performance of its repertoire for broadcast, background music, and live performance, collects the associated tariffs, and distributes that money directly to the copyright holders.
SODRAC is a collective management society within the meaning of the Copyright Act. It grants licences for all reproductions of musical and artworks. SODRAC represents authors, composers, music publishers and creators and co-creators of artistic works. Our society also represents heirs of rights, titles and interests in a work following an author's death.
The Quebec Collective Society for the Rights of Makers of Sound and Video Recordings (SOPROQ) was created to ensure that makers of sound and video recordings benefit fully from the rights that they are entitled to under the Canadian Copyright Act.
SoundExchange collects and distributes royalties resulting from performance rights for musicians and sound recording copyright owners for the performance of music on digital cable, satellite television or radio, and non-interactive webcasts. SoundExchange does not represent publishers and songwriters, and does not cover digital downloads. Because there is currently no reciprocity agreement between SoundExchange and any Canadian collection agency, Canadian artists and master copyright holders can assign their rights for collection of these royalties in the United States to SoundExchange.
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
TRAINING - AUDIO PRODUCTION
Mid-Ocean School of Media Arts is a registered private vocational institution located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They have been providing practical, intensive training in audio production for ten years. Instructors at Mid-Ocean School of Media Arts have extensive experience in presenting both theoretical and practical aspects of audio production.
Pacific Audio Visual Institute is an accredited post-secondary school in Vancouver, BC Canada. Learn sound engineering, music recording and production, filmmaking, film and music business, game design and 3D animation.
Precursor Productions is a cutting-edge teaching studio training musicians and hobbyists to professionally record, arrange, engineer and master their own music using powerful yet inexpensive software digital recording tools.
Audio production and pro-tools training.
TRAINING - MUSIC
Brandon University School of Music offers a wide variety of degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. New programs include jazz studies and composition.
The Faculty of Music with its programs and activities, is designed to meet the needs and special interests of a wide range of serious music students, with an emphasis on providing a sound theoretical, historical and practical base upon which successful careers or graduate studies can be built. Programs centre around performance, composition, and history.
Programs include the Folk School Tent, Workshops and Classes, The Folk Retreat, Young Performers Program, and the Young Artists Program.
An accomplished vocalist himself, D. Bruce Moore also trains singers in the basics of vocal production.
TRAINING - MUSIC INDUSTRY
Check out these links to places where you can get training in various aspects of the music industry.
ACI is Manitoba's sector council for culture. ACI is an umbrella organization created to serve all arts and cultural workers in Manitoba, wherever they live in the province, whatever their background and whatever kind of creative work they do.
A UK website with info about working in the industry and interviews with prominent industry insiders.
Learn the inner workings of the record and music publishing business and discover ground-breaking approaches to the development of the future of the music industry.
Located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, on the UW campus, the Centre for Cultural Management (CCM) undertakes a broad range of activities providing leadership in cultural management education and research.
National Training Strategy for Business Skills in the Music Industry and Music Industry Training Gaps Analyses
A U.S. website dedicated to intellectual property rights education.
A website that aims to teach musicians how to use the Internet to sell and market recordings and to arm musicians with all the information they need to move their music career forward in the 'real' world, with or without a major label record deal.
Helping musicians, songwriters and industry careerists start and grow successful music businesses through vital information and creative management strategies.
In the Resource/Education section, you'll find a wide variety of useful information. We offer everything from a set of all applicable SOCAN tariffs and a glossary of licensing terms, to a list of educational institutions and music-related funding bodies. Also included are links to most of the organizations and associations listed.
The Arts and Cultural Management Certificate Program has been developed to provide individuals who are already working in or entering into the cultural sector, with the business and leadership skills training necessary to build resilient and up-to-date arts and cultural organizations. In addition, this program provides business skills for the self-employed cultural sector worker.
YOUTH RESOURCES
The Careers in the Arts Mentorship Program provides opportunities for youth to be mentored by a representative of an arts-related career through individual meetings with the mentor, volunteer work experience and participation in career development workshops.
Looking for a place for your own cultural expression? Consider the Edge! We offer affordable live/work spaces, pottery studio memberships, gallery event rentals, community workshop facilities.
Each year the WECC welcomes over 700 children and youth from local schools after-school programs into the centre as part of our free Concert and Workshop Series. The Concert Series provides an opportunity for youth to experience a live show in a real theatre, while the Workshop series provides a hands-on experience with professional instructors in such areas as dance, drums, musical theatre, and much more.
The TUNE IN program provides free after-school music instruction to youth between the ages of 12 and 19 years. Professional instructors work with small groups of youth teaching rock n' roll style guitar, bass-guitar, and drums. All equipment is provided free of charge to ensure that anyone who is interested can participate in the lessons.
The Winnipeg Folk Festival presents the popular Young Performers Program each year at the festival. Open to emerging musicians age 14-24, this training and performance program offers a day of workshops and mentoring with professional musicians performing at this year's festival and a chance to perform on-stage at the Festival.