Photo by courtesy / courtoisie. Among the nominees for the first-ever Women In Music Canada Honours / Parmi les finalistes pour la toute première édition de Women In Music Canada Honours, Left to right/De gauche à droite : Tanika Charles, Shoshona Kish, Fefe Dobson

Women in Music Canada shares long list of nominees for its first-ever honours

Story by Howard Druckman | Tuesday February 28th, 2023

Women In Music Canada (WIMC) has shared the long list of nominees for the first-ever Women In Music Canada Honours, scheduled for International Women’s Day – March 8, 2023 – at the Opera House in downtown Toronto. Recipients will be recognized and celebrated, alongside a dinner reception and showcase performances. Tickets are available.

The list was selected by a jury of 22 professional Canadian music industry leaders and creators, appointed by Women in Music Canada, and represents the top submissions. The final honourees will be curated from the long list by a finalist jury.

The WIMC Honours program was designed to celebrate and support Canadian innovators and creators who’ve had outstanding success in their field in the eligibility year (December 2021 through December 2022 for annual-based categories). Categories include Artist of the Year, Distinguished Leader, Entrepreneur of the Year, Excellence in Live Music, International Leader of the Year, Organization of the Year, the Trailblazer Award, and the Women in Music Canada Honour Roll, which will honour up to 10 women and gender-diverse industry members or artists on the rise.

The Honours reception, hosted by CBC’s Saroja Coelho, will showcase an incredible group of artists performing throughout the evening, including rising country star Sacha; producer, DJ, and performer Liliane Chlela; JUNO-nominated recording artist, singer-songwriter and producer Desirée Dawson; Cree and Salish singer and TikTok creator Tia Wood; singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sofia Camara; and decorated, multi-platinum recording artist Fefe Dobson.

During the event, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame will induct multi-award winning, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt.

The Long List  nominees are:

Amanda Power – The Unison Fund
Amber Moyle – Polaris Music Prize
Anna Ruddick – The Unison Fund
Anne Stirk – Spotify Canada
Ashley Bieniarz – Songsmiths
Béatrice Martin – Bravo musique and Coeur de pirate
Carey Riley – Sony Music Canada
Charlotte Cardin
DeeDee Austin
Domanique Grant
Elise Roller – Misfit Music MGMT
Faryal Khan-Thompson – TuneCore
Fefe Dobson – 21 Entertainment Group Inc.
Fredericka Petit-Homme
Heather Gibson – National Arts Centre
Irish Mythen – Irish Mythen
Janna Sailor – Janna Sailor (Allegra Chamber Orchestra)
Jenn Ivanovs – Jives Management
Jessica Holtby – Seeka Sings
Jessica Lemmon – Lemmon Entertainment
Jessika Harling – JESSIA
Karen Kosowski
Katrina Kernaghan – TikTok
Lana Winterhalt – Good + Plenty Producer’s Club
Marilyne Lacombe – Mothland
Mary Beth Waldram – Laughing Heart Music
Monika Ouellet – Lazermortis
Nico Paulo
Nicole Auger – Indigenous Music Alliance
Nicole Alosinac – Nicole Alosinac Luthiery
Ryhna Thompson – Envision Management & Production
Samantha Pickard – Strut Entertainment
Sandy Graham – EMG
Shantel Noel – Spotify
Sharine Taylor – Independent / Bashy
Shauna de Cartier – Six Shooter Records
ShoShona Kish – Ishkode Records / Indigenous Music Alliance
Shumaila Hemani – Shumaila Hemani
Stacey Bedford – Bandzoogle
STONE AGE UG – STONE AGE ENTERTAINMENT
STORRY
Sunny Chen – Sad China
Tanika Charles
Tyler Tasson – Endemic Marketing
Yolanda Sargeant – Sargeant X Comrade

Photo by courtesy / courtoisie. Left to right/De gauche à droite : nominees / nommés Kaia Kater, Antonia Naranjo, Derek Miller

Forty-seven SOCAN #ComposersWhoScore earn Canadian Screen Awards 2023 nominations

Story by Howard Druckman | Wednesday March 1st, 2023

Once again this year, SOCAN #ComposersWhoScore have fared very well in nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards. With expanded musical categories this year, 47 of our members have earned nominations, 11 of them have garnered double-noms, and Antonio Naranjo and Jonathan Goldsmith have been honoured with three nods each.

Presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the Canadian Screen Awards were born of the fusion of two awards ceremonies – the Genie Awards for movies and Gemini Awards for television. The 2023 awards will be presented over six days during Canadian Screen Week, April 11-16, 2023.

The SOCAN nominees are as follows:

FILM

 Achievement in Music – Original Score

  • Ian Lefeuvre – Ashgrove
  • Todor Kobakov – Brother
  • Adrian Ellis – Cult Hero
  • Ari Posner– The End of Sex

 Achievement in Music – Original Song

  • Ian Lefeuvre – “The Weight” from Ashgrove
  • Marie Clements, Wayne Lavallee, Jesse Zubot – “You Are My Bones” from Bones of Crows
  • Chuck Baker, Tony Burgess – “The Ascension Song,” from Cult Hero
  • Rose Cousins, Breagh Isabel – “Get Home,” from Dawn, Her Dad & The Tractor
  • Kate Hewlett – “The Swearing Song,” from The Swearing Jar

Best Original Music in a Feature-Length Documentary

  • Walker Grimshaw – Dear Audrey
  • Edo Vanbreemen, Johannes Winkler (N/A) – Handle with Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew
  • Delphine Measroch – Humus
  • Ramachandra Borcar– Scrap
  • Jonathan Goldsmith – To Kill a Tiger

TELEVISION

 Best Original Music, Animation

  • Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner, Kris Kuzdak – Let’s Go Luna! – “Dig It Daddy-O” episode
  • Caleb Chan, Brian Chan – Pinecone & Pony – “Lance Or Not” / “Treat Your Creature” episodes
  • Caleb Chan, Brian Chan – Team Zenko Go – “Harmony Harbor’s Holiday Surprise,” Part 1 and 2 episodes
  • Jeff Morrow – The Snoopy Show – “Dogs Don’t Say Goodbye” episode
  • Neil Parfitt – Super Wish – “Legend of the Cake-Bun Bottom” episode

 Best Original Music, Drama

  • Tom Third – Coroner – “LJND” episode
  • Keith Power – Departure – “Runaway” episode
  • Gary Koftinoff, Philip J Bennett – Hudson & Rex – “No Man is an Island” episode
  • Jonathan Goldsmith – The Porter – Episode 101
  • Lora Bidner, Robert Carli – Ruby and the Well – “I Wish We’d Stayed Friends”

Best Original Music, Comedy

  • Ames Bessada – Astrid & Lilly Save the World – Pilot episode
  • Ari Posner, Amin Bhatia, Sarah Slean, Antonio Naranjo – Detention Adventure – “Singing in the Raign” episode
  • John Rowley – Pretty Hard Cases – “Pencil Skirts” episode
  • Alan Doyle, Keith Power – Son of a Critch – “Old Soul, New School” episode
  • Ceréna, Emily Persich, Moël (n/a), Terrell Morris, SVDP (n/a), Vivek Shraya – Sort Of – “Sort Of Who She Is” episode

Best Original Music, Documentary

  • Todor Kobakov – A.rtificial I.mmortality
  • Tom Third – BLK: An Origin Story – ​​Nova Scotia: Three Epic Migrations, One People
  • Ramachandra Borcar – Dear Jackie
  • Ohad Benchetrit, Justin Small – The Perfect Story
  • Michelle Osis – Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children

 Best Original Music, Factual, Lifestyle, Reality, or Entertainment

  • Rachael Johnstone, Annelise Noronha, Jason Turriff, Earl Torno – A Cut Above –  Episode 101
  • Guillaume Coutu Dumont – Eat Me (or try not to) –  “The Taste” episode
  • Derek Miller – Friday Night Thunder – “You Gotta Push the Limits or Stay Behind” episode
  • Les Stroud, Kevin Kossowan, David Bateman – Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest –  “Mussels & Wild Radish” episode
  • Joseph Shabason – Open Fire – “The Fall Cookout” episode

 Best Original Music, Original Song

  • Antonio Naranjo, Carla Sutton – Detention Adventure –  “See You Later” episode –  “See You Later”
  • Antonio Naranjo, Carla Sutton – Detention Adventure – “Singing in the Raign” episode – “No Place Like Home”
  • Jonathan Goldsmith, Kaïa Kater – The Porter – Episode 104 – “Songbird”
  • Emily Persich – Sort Of – “Sort Of Broke” episode – “Superpowers”
  • Creighton Doane, Melanie Doane, Bob Ezrin – Ukulele U – “Use Your Inside Voice” episode –  “Use Your Outside Voice”

For further information and a complete list of nominees, visit the Canadian Screen Awards website. Congratulations to all our nominees on this great achievement!

Photo by SOCAN

Attention SOCAN members! Change your password

Story by SOCAN | Monday February 27th, 2023

Keeping your SOCAN member account secure is our priority, and part of keeping your account secure is a strong password.

Your password will now have specific character requirements to ensure the continued security of your account.

Your password must contain:

  • 8 to 16 characters
  • a lowercase character [a-z]
  • an uppercase character [A-Z]
  • a number [0-9]
  • a special character [!@#$()[]{}<>%^&*-+=,.:;?~]

Don’t use words or numbers easily associated with you.

You can change your password today by logging in to your SOCAN account and selecting “Change My Password” under the “My Profile” menu.

After you’ve changed your password, you’ll receive a confirmation e-mail message from SOCAN.

Thank you for being a SOCAN member, and taking an important step in maintaining the security of your account.