AND THE
WINNER IS...
GRIMES’ VIDEO FOR “VENUS FLY (FEAT. JANELLE MONÁE)"
Prism Prize Top 10 Canadian
Music Videos Announced
The 10 Canadian music videos that will
vie for the 2018 Prism Prize have been
announced. The winning video’s director
will be awarded the $15,000 grand prize at
a screening and awards presentation on
Sunday, May 13, 2018 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
The 2018 Prism Prize Top Ten (in alpha-
betical order) are: Alice Glass’s “Without
Love” (director: Floria Sigismondi); Alvvays’
“Dreams Tonite” (director: Matt Johnson);
Charlotte Day Wilson’s “Work” (director:
Fantavious Fritz); Cri’s “Rush” (director: Didier
Charette); Daniel Caesar’s “Freudian, a
Visual” (directors: Keavan Yazdani and Sean
Brown); Feist’s “Century” (director: Scott
Cudmore); Grimes’ “Venus Fly (feat. Janelle
Monáe)” (director: Grimes); Jessie Reyez’s
“Gatekeeper” (director: Peter Huang); Leon-
ard Cohen’s “Leaving the Table” (director:
Christopher Mills); and PUP’s “Old Wou nds”
(director: Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux).
For more information and to watch the
videos, go to www.prismprize.com.
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calendar...
Guitar Workshop Plus Announces
2018 Program & Artist Lineup
Guitar Workshop Plus has announced its
2018 program with an artist lineup that
includes rock virtuosos Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big,
Racer X), Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders),
and Nita Strauss (Alice Cooper, solo), along
with blues veteran Duke Robillard (solo,
Fabulous Thunderbirds), bassist Rhonda
Smith (Jeff Beck, Prince), country legend
Albert Lee (Eric Clapton, Emmylou Harris),
and more.
W W W. C A N A D I A N M U S I C I A N . CO M
In addition to all the regular classes,
special seminars including Modern Rock
Guitar, Still Got the Blues, Acoustic Expres-
sions, The Art of Country Guitar, Groove
Academy (for Bass), Virtuoso Rock, Rockin’
the Blues, and more have been added to
the course options.
This year’s Toronto session takes place
from July 23-28. Other sessions include: San
Diego from June 17-22; Nashville from July
15-20; and Seattle from Aug. 19-24.
The 2018 schedules, details, and schol-
arship information are available at
www.guitarworkshopplus.com.
access a diverse range of programming,
including art installations, emerging artist
showcases, late night DJ sets, and after
parties at small and medium-sized venues.
Among the diverse list of curators are Leah
Fay and Peter Dreimanis of July Talk, K-OS,
Weaves’ Jasmyn Burke, Katie Monks of Dilly
Dally, Cadence Weapon, Cone of Sum 41,
Terra Lightfoot, Jim Cuddy, and more.
This year’s festival village lineup at
Yonge-Dundas Square and other info will
be announced in the coming weeks. For
more information, go to www.nxne.com.
Honey Jam Audition Set
for June 2 nd
Auditions for the 2018 Honey Jam Showcase
will be held on June 2 nd at Rivoli in Toronto.
Auditions are open to all female artists ages
14 to 25 in any genre. The final Honey Jam
showcase will be held Aug. 23, 2018 in Toronto.
Artists outside of Ontario may submit their
audition online. All of the artists chosen to
perform this year will attend a music industry
workshop at Harris Institute, receive one-on-
one vocal and performance coaching from
Elaine Overholt of Big Voice Studios, have their
original songs played on radio, and more.
For more information, go to
www.honeyjam.com.
SING! Toronto Vocal Arts Festival
Gears Up for 2018 Edition
SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival will be
shining a light on vocal music once again
from May 23-June 3, 2018 at various venues
in Toronto. The festival features a range of
club shows, free concerts, and educational
workshops for singers of all ages and skill
levels. Performing artists include Rocka-
pella, the House Jacks, Toronto Northern
Lights Chorus, Cadence, and Retrocity,
among others.
Festival concerts span an array of
genres, including pop, rock, jazz, classical,
barbershop, world, gospel, folk, live loop-
ing, and beat boxing. May 26 th will host a
series of free public workshops featuring
many of the festival's performers.
For more information, including a full
concert and workshop schedule, go to
www.singtoronto.com.
NXNE Announces 2018 Club Land
Curators
NXNE’s Club Land Curators Series, pro-
grammed by influential Canadian musi-
cians, has expanded with over 30 shows
from June 10-16, 2018. Club crawlers can
KoSA Welcomes Drummers in
Havana & Montreal
Quebec-based KoSA Music, which stages
percussion camps and workshops around
the world, just wrapped up the 17 th edition
of its annual KoSA Cuba drum and percus-
sion camp and festival in Havana and is now
accepting registrations for its Montreal camp,
which will be held from June 25-30, 2018.
The week-long KoSA Cuba drum and
percussion camp, held in collaboration with
the Havana Rhythm and Dance festival in
early March, welcomed participants from
Canada, the U.S, and as far as Switzerland to
learn from and play with some of Cuba’s top
artists. The program offered intensive days
of hands-on classes, workshops, concerts,
lectures, cultural visits, and more, includ-
ing seminars on Cuban music given by
renowned ethnomusicologist Dr. Olavo Alin.
KoSA’s Montreal percussion camp is
open to drummers and percussionists of all
ages and skill levels and will be held at the
KoSA Academy in the Montreal borough
of Notre-Dame-de Grâce. KoSA’s faculty of
acclaimed drummers and percussionists will
conduct small, hands-on classes covering a
wide range of styles on the drumset, includ-
ing rock, jazz, groove, fusion, hip-hop, and
house, and various styles of hand percus-
sion. Participants will have a chance to play
every day with the Rhythm Section and jam
every evening and get a ticket to see Snarky
Puppy at the Montreal Jazz Festival.
For more information, contact on KoSA:
514-482-5554, [email protected],
www.kosamusic.com.
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