Cape Breton Embassy
While
the East Coast Music Association celebrates its 25th anniversary
this week in Halifax, the Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative (CBMIC) is presenting
two nights of concerts featuring some of Cape Breton’s most well-known and up
and coming artists. The Cape Breton Embassy continues a tradition started by
Rave Entertainment in 1996, and carried on by the House of Rock, of showcasing
Cape Breton’s music during the East Coast Music Awards celebrations.
Over
the past 25 years, Cape Breton’s musicians and music industry players have
played an important role in the success of the East Coast music industry and
the popularity of East Coast music world-wide. Since the East Coast Music
Awards started in 1989, Cape Bretoners have won more than 190 awards, backing
up CBMIC’s claim that Cape Breton is the music capital of the East Coast.
The
Cape Breton Embassy kicks off March 7th at the Marquee Ballroom on Gottingen
Street. Thursday night’s concert features past ECMA winners Matt Minglewood and
Slowcoaster, as well as emerging talents the Town Heroes from Inverness,
singer-songwriters Carleton Stone and Jason MacDonald, and the
folksy-bluegrassy Heartwood Slacks. Friday night’s concert gathers together
some of the Island’s finest traditional players, from ECMA winners Ashley
MacIsaac, J.P. Cormier, and the Beaton Sisters Band to nominees Sprag Session,
Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac and Chrissy Crowley. Showtime both nights
is 9pm with the doors opening at 8:30pm.
"The
Cape Breton Embassy is about celebrating our position in the music industry in
Canada and worldwide,” says Albert Lionais, CBMIC’s Operations Manager. “In
addition to our world-renowned artists, we have world-renowned music studios,
songwriters, technical companies, venues and music festivals. All of this grew
up around something special and that something is the deep-rooted, unique
musical culture we have on our small island here on the edge of Canada."
Cape
Breton Music Industry Cooperative is a not-for-profit organization developed to
grow and support Cape Breton’s music industry. CBMIC recognizes that the music
industry in Cape Breton is a sustainable one. Through partnerships with
government agencies, private sector, media, local venues and music-related
organizations within Canada and beyond, CBMIC’s goal is to bridge the gap
between local musicians and the music industry as a whole.
Cape
Breton Music Embassy
March
7, 8 / 9pmMarquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen St, Halifax
