Manitoba Music
Feedback, July 17 | Meet the Mentors
Build your music community. Meet your mentors.
Looking to make connections, grow your community, and learn more about the music industry? We've launched Feedback, a new monthly networking, mentorship, and community-building event. It’s a safe space for Manitoba Music members to get guidance from local industry professionals and an opportunity to share thoughts and exchange ideas with music peers and other members.
For this open house-style event, we'll be inviting music industry mentors from different backgrounds and experiences to hang out, answer questions, and provide folks with some guidance. Join us!
Feedback
Wednesday, July 17 / 5 - 7 PM
Unit 147 (formerly Passerby) at The Forks Market, 1 Forks Market Road
Free / all ages
Billy Simard
He/Him
Billy has been involved in music from an early age. He has released 5 recording projects over the years with 3 being released since 2015. He has written songs for various artists, won MACA songwriter of the year, inducted into the Indigenous Music Hall of Fame in Manitoba, and won the first National Indigenous Music award in Canada in 1999. He has also been nominated twice in The Native American Music Awards. Lately, his music has charted across Canada on The Indigenous Music Charts and also on The Americana Music Charts in the USA. His songs have reached the top 10 on the Hotdisc Top 40 Charts in the UK peaking at #2. Recently he has signed a publishing administration deal with Birthday Cake/Warner Canada. His personal experiences as an indie artist have resulted in an in-depth knowledge of songwriter/performance royalties and other facets of releasing songs nationally and internationally. He grew up in an isolated community with no running water or electricity listening to an old battery-powered radio that instilled a lasting love for the music he heard.
Chelliot Osuntade
He/Him
Chelliot Osuntade (Chell) is a multi-instrumentalist and performer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Chell is involved in 3 projects currently; Fold Paper, Chell’s new post-punk project that he created to express himself and push the boundaries of what it means to be a black artist through his favorite genre of music. The band recently signed with the renowned Royal Mountain Records in Toronto and recently completed their first tour of the UK; JayWood, a Winnipeg based powerhouse with whom Chell has toured across Canada, Europe, and the United States with; Julien’s Daughter, which he started with singer Emma Murphy. In addition to performing live, Chell has also had the pleasure of recording bass guitar on two songs of Yes We Mystic’s last album ever, all of the Julien’s Daughter discography, and Fold Paper’s debut EP “4TO”.
Talk to Chell about: touring, export readiness, booking live shows, making connections, etc
Jen Doerksen
They/Them
Jen Doerksen is a non-binary music professional based on Treaty 1 Territory. With over eight years of experience as a communications professional working in marketing, public relations, and videography, Jen has developed a skill set particularly useful for developing small businesses. Currently, they work as day-to-day management and marketing for The Sheepdogs management team, while offering label services under Signal Noise Music. Previously, Jen worked as day-to-day management with Boy Golden, and prior that, with the Misfit Music Management team. Before diving into artist management, Jen was a marketing manager at independent record label Birthday Cake Media. They also co-own boutique videography company BNB Studios, and help artist friends with grant writing, project planning, business strategy, and marketing strategy development.
Talk to Jen about: artist management, label services, release strategies, marketing strategies, tour logistics, production and project management, photography and videography