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CMW 2018 Expands Music
Summit, Adds Sync Awards
& More
Canadian Music Week will again be taking over down-
town Toronto in 2018, running from May 7-13, 2018.
The Music Summit has been expanded to four
days, held May 9-12 at the Sheraton Centre Toron-
to Hotel, and will be split into three programming
streams encompassing Tech & Innovation, Live Tour-
ing, and the Global Creators Summit. Keynote speakers
will include Live Nation's Jackie Wilgar, immigration
lawyer Lorraine D’Alessio, AEG Live President Rick
Mueller, producer Steve Lillywhite, and Peermusic CEO
Megan Faces Peer.
The one-day Mastering of a Music City Summit will
return on Saturday, May 12 th . The joint event from Music
Canada, the international recording industry group IFPI,
and Canadian Music Week will explore the relationship
between creative city planning, quality-of-life, and the
music industry in depth.
Also new for this year in the inaugural Sync
Awards, which will recognize the contribution that
sync licensing makes to the creative industries. Nomi-
nees will include music supervisors, sync teams, pub-
lishers, record companies, and others from the worlds
of broadcast and advertising. The Sync Awards bolster
a busy lineup of awards shows, which also includes
the Live Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, Music and
Broadcast Industry Awards, and the Indie Awards.
For a full schedule of events and showcases, go to
www.cmw.net.
14 • C A N A D I A N M U S I C I A N
CHANGES
ECMA Industry
Conference to
Focus on Music
in Film, TV & New
Media
As part of East Coast Music Week
in Halifax, NS from May 2-6,
2018, this year’s ECMA Industry
Conference will continue to shine
a spotlight on the ECMA Music
in Motion: Film, Television & New
CLASSIFIED & DAVID MYLES AT THE 2017 ECMA AWARDS
Media program. It will offer a
series of forums to help prepare
industry professionals and companies with the insight to expand career and business
opportunities in the world of film, television, advertising, and music supervision.
As well, this year the conference will continue to offer mentorship programs for
managers, breakout artists, emerging and established artists, and industry professionals.
In addition to these programs, ECMA will be introducing new peer-to-peer opportunities
throughout the event.
Also returning this year will be the Connect with the Experts - Artist & Industry Mentor-
ship Program. This is a choose-your-own-adventure style of mentorship that allows artists to
select the area(s) of the business where they would like to receive support and mentorship
and sign up for 30-minute sessions with a mentor in that field.
For more information, including a full conference schedule as it becomes available, the
list of showcasing artists, and ECMA Award nominees, go to www.ecma.com.
Music Heals
Announces
Events &
Initiatives for
Music Therapy
Awareness
Month
March is Music Therapy Aware-
ness Month and B.C.-based char-
ity Music Heals is offering events
and opportunities across Canada
with a goal of raising awareness for music therapy. As well, Music Heals, in partnership with
the World Federation of Music Therapy, took the initiative global by spearheading the first
ever World Music Therapy Day on March 1, 2018.
Across Canada on March 3 rd was the sixth
annual A Night Out For Music Heals. Over 100
participating clubs and pubs across Canada
donated $1 per cover charge (or made a flat
donation of $1 per patron) to Music Heals for
one night. For a list of participating venues
in each province, go to www.musicheals.ca/
nightout.
As well, Long & McQuade is collecting
iPods in all its stores for Music Heals’ iPod
Pharmacy. Good-condition used iPods can be
dropped off and they will be given to music
therapists in the province in which they’re
donated.
For
more information and a full list of events,
initiatives,
and iPod Pharmacy drop-off points, go to
www.musicheals.
ca/mtamonth.