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Random music news for Friday, May 29, 2020

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The music festival is hardly a recent creation. People have been gathering in fields to hear music for centuries. In

With only a few short months of adequate weather, Canadians go nuts for the outdoors between the May long weekend

Cam Gordon’s Completely Ignored site has come up with this analysis of the bands who played Edgefest when the event

For many, Edgefest, the 102.1 the Edge/Toronto-staged summer festival, was a rite of passage. The event dates back to 1987

There was a time not that long ago when summer music festivals were a thing for Europeans and (maybe) Australians.

Edgefest, the long-running summer concert staged by 102.1 the Edge, has its roots in what was supposed to be a

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
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Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
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Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver