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Canadian Music Week

Music News 

Random music news for Wednesday, December 30, 2020

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments Canadian Music Week, Jay-Z, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Nashville, Record Stores, Streaming Music Services, Tidal, Weldon Angelos

Pleeeeasee eexcusee any typos in today’s missivee. The eeeee key on my MacBook Pro is screeweed, so eeach keeeystrokeee reeesults

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Music Industry 

Canadian Music Week CANCELED for 2020

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment Canadian Music Week, CMW

If this had been a normal year, the music industry would have been gearing up for Canadian Music Week, which

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Music News 

Canadian Music Week postponed. It had to be done.

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 20/20, Canadian Music Week, CMW, Coronavirus, COVID-19

Canadian Music Week, the massive annual music conference and festival that happens in Toronto every May, has been postponed until

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Music Industry 

Canadian Music Week is still very much on this May. Take THAT, COVID-19!

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment 20/20, Canadian Music Week, CMW, Coronavirus

The music industry has been hammered by cancellations and postponements. SXSW. Coachella, Madonna’s Madame X tour. Pearl Jam’s Gigaton tour.

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Music News 

Vote now for CMW’s Independent Music Awards

April 24, 2019May 10, 2019 Amber Healy 0 Comments Born Ruffians, Canadian Music Week, Independent Music Awards, Jim Beam Talent Search, La Force, Phoenix Concert Theatre, The Elwins

We’re just weeks away from Canadian Music Week and, with that, the 19th Annual Independent Music Awards. Who will win?

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Music News 

#CMW2019 Is Almost Here

April 19, 2019April 18, 2019 Gilles LeBlanc 1 Comment Canadian Music Week, CMW 2019, Dave Grohl, Keynote Speakers, Sheraton Centre, Toronto

We are now less than three weeks out from Canadian Music Week, the 37th edition of our country’s largest festival

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Music News 

We have the first confirmed booking for refurbished El Mocambo

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018 Alan Cross 3 Comments 2019, Canadian Music Week, El Mocambo, Live Music Industry Awards

After years of work and tens of millions of dollars of investment, Toronto’s venerable El Mocambo still isn’t open yet.

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Music News 

Winners of the 2018 CMW Indie Awards

May 13, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canadian Music Week, CMW, Indie Awards

Another highlight of Canadian Music Week is the Indie Awards. Here’s the list of this year’s winners. Winners are in

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Music Industry Radio 

And the winners for the 2018 Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards are…

May 10, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Broadcast Industry, Canadian Music Week, CMW, Music Industry

The music and broadcast industry gathered in Toronto at CMW for their annual awards on Thursday night. Here’s the complete

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Music News 

Heading to Canadian Music Week? Got an old iPod that you don’t need? Donate it!

May 10, 2018 Thomas Dennett 0 Comments Canadian Music Week, Donation, iPod, Music Heals, Music Therapy

Music is meant to be shared. For millennia, humans have created instruments, developed sounds and shared those sounds with people

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Music News 

The Canadian Music Week Hackathon, co-sponsored by my Music Technology Meetup

April 28, 2018April 27, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canadian Music Week, CMW, Hackathon

Okay, this press release doesn’t actually list the Music Technology Meetup as a sponsor, but trust us. We’re part of

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