Canadian musicians, music industry professionals, and music organizations are continuing to creatively adapt to the situation.
The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame has postponed the induction celebration of Kim Mitchell and Pye Dubois to September, as part of the new dates for Canadian Music Week, and is committed to finding new opportunities to honour 2020 inductee Ron Hynes, and more incredible Canadian songwriters and songs to be announced soon.
Similarly, CBC Music, in response to David Myles’s suggestion, is working toward playing only Canadian music in all of its daytime programming, for the next two months.
La Fédération nationale des communications et de la culture has launched a survey asking people what kind of issues they’re dealing with during the situation, to help determine the best ways to help them. This is the kind of funding support they provide.
The Guardian is reporting that musicians are asking Spotify to triple their payments in order to cover lost concert revenue.
Words & Music contributor Nick Krewen has written a feature story in The Toronto Star about how musicians are navigating life in “the new normal.”
Longtime Atlantic-Canadian SOCAN member Lennie Gallant and his partner Patricia Richard uploaded a Facebook video singing his apropos song “Lifeline,” that has reached 20K viewers and touched many fans’ hearts
On March 18, Toronto-based SOCAN member Mike Evin launched the Creative Isolation Challenge, committing himself to create one new thing – whether a new song, a new and different recording of an old song, a lyric, a dance, a beat, and so on – each day for the next 30 days.
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