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CMW’s Jim Beam National Talent
Search Tour Is Going Virtual
Canadian Music Week (CMW) has announced
that the Jim Beam National Talent
Search Tour will take place virtually from
Sept. 26 to Oct. 3, 2020, with 30-minute
episodes spotlighting five local bands
from eight Canadian cities. Hosted by Josie
Dye of Toronto’s Indie88 Radio, each of
the resulting regional webisodes will be
streamed via Indies.ca and CMW.net/music,
plus Vimeo, YouTube, and partnering radio
stations across the country.
Each episode will focus on one city and
feature interviews and performances from
five local bands. Fans are invited to vote for
their favourite band to play live at the Jim
Beam INDIES in 2021 at Indies.ca. The 40
bands have already began recording the Jim
Beam Virtual Talent Search episodes during
socially-distanced studio sessions. All 40
artists will also receive a master tape of the
multi-track sound recording and the accompanying
multi-camera video to be used in
any way they wish to promote themselves.
For more information and live streams, go
to www.indies.ca and www.cmw.net/music.
Alberta Electronic Music
Conference Postponed Until 2021
Originally scheduled for this November at
Calgary’s National Music Centre, the 2020
Alberta Electronic Music Conference (AEM-
CON) has been postponed until November
2021. In June, in response to the COVID-19
shutdowns, AEMCON held the first Virtual
Electronic Music Summit (VEMS).
“As you all know, the realities brought
forth by COVID-19 have made large-scale,
physical event planning impossible, especially
ones that rely on international travel,
multi-venue collaboration, multi-month
planning cycles, and an intimate and closeknit
vibe. The environment of uncertainty
and risk is too great for us to be able to
produce an event to the calibre you’ve
come to expect and deserve,” AEMCON or-
ganizers said in an email to media, attendees,
and speakers.
For more information, go to
www.albertaelectronicmusic.com.
Honey Jam Set to Livestream 2020
Concert on Oct. 1 st
The 25 th annual edition of the Honey Jam
concert will be livestreamed from Toronto’s
iconic El Mocambo on Oct. 1, 2020. This
year’s special edition, sponsored in part by
Canadian Musician, will be a celebration of
women in music where past Honey Jam
alumni will pay tribute with covers of iconic
songs by female artists.
Honey Jam was founded in 1995 in
response to the lack of opportunities for exposure
and promotion given to female performers,
as well as the lack of female representation
on the business side of the industry.
For more information on this year’s
edition as it becomes available, visit
www.honeyjam.com.
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