Canadian Live Music Industry Award Nominees Announced—Voting Begins!

100 outstanding individuals, companies and organizations from across the Canadian music and live industries spanning over 20 categories will be honoured on Friday, May 11 at The Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto, ON. The full list of nominees is below.  The Live Music Industry Awards are brought to you by Canadian Music Week in partnership […]

Tristan Horncastle visits the Joshua Bates Centre in Athens, Ontario

On two other occasions, the audience at the Joshua Bates Centre, in Athens Ontario saw a star in the making. They knew they had made a connection with a lad who was going places and they would be able to say they “knew him when”.  This happened for the third time on Saturday, January 28th […]

Country Music Festivals – Are There Too Many?

So let’s start off with the fact that I LOVE LIVE MUSIC.  I love it so much that I, a full grown man, feel completely justified in using shouty capitals when I write about how much I LOVE it. Just ask my wife (who will inevitably be asking me why I didn’t put her name […]

Ontario – A Hot Bed for Country Music Festivals in 2016

Ok so I think we can officially say that Ontario has quickly become a HOT BED for Country Music Festivals for 2016 in Canada.   Seriously its unreal… With nearly 13.8 Million people in Ontario and lets say you take 3% of that population that are ticket buying country music fans.  You are looking at just […]

Cavendish 2016 Set to be BEST YET!

Wow… So Cavendish released a couple of acts on their line up today as battle of Country Music Festivals in Canada heats up.  With Gone Country 3 in London, Havelock Jamboree and Boots & Hearts already having made a splash with some BIG Names as well at Country Thunder entering the Canadian market with a show […]