EAST COAST MUSIC WEEK
With
350 musicians, 48 events, and 18 venues Eastlink East Coast Music Week (ECMW)
begins this Wednesday, March 06, running until Sunday, March 10. The event
features a four day Industry Conference with key-note speaker Seymour Stein,
standout events such as CBC Presents A Sound Celebration with Symphony Nova
Scotia featuring artists such as Lennie Gallant and Rita MacNeil, and The
Eastlink Presentation of The Chronicle Herald East Coast Music Awards Gala
hosted by Rose Cousins and David Myles.
Eastlink
ECMW Red Bull Tour Bus Kick Off Concert starts the week with a free show
featuring performances from Ashley MacIsaac, The Stanfields, Jenn Grant, and Heather
Green in Grand Parade on Thursday, March 7 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. The Canadian
Red Bull Tour Bus is a refurbished and customized 1970s GM Transit bus that
features a live stage and a full-featured JBL sound system. Bringing exciting
concerts to unique locales, from coast to coast, this is its first time in
Atlantic Canada.
CBC
Presents A Sound Celebration with Symphony Nova Scotia takes place on Saturday, March 9 at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorum. The
evening features solo and collaborative performances by Symphony Nova
Scotia under music director Bernhard Gueller and resident conductor Jonathan
Govias with special guests Rita MacNeil, Lennie Gallant, Cindy Cain, Radio
Radio, Ian McKinnon, and Ennis.
East
Coast Music Week’s 2013 Industry Conference, celebrating ‘25 Years Pure – Our
Music Means Business,’ has much to offer every member of the music industry. It
brings together some of the industry’s best minds, as they lead four days of
seminars, workshops, showcases, and business meetings.
The
2013 Industry Conference begins with the Eastlink East Coast Music Week 25th
Anniversary Keynote address given by industry icon and Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame inductee Seymour Stein. The event is free and open to the public and takes
place Thursday, March 7 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in the Bluenose Room in Delta Halifax.
Hosted
by Rose Cousins and David Myles, The Eastlink Presentation of The Chronicle
Herald East Coast Music Awards Gala takes place on Sunday, March 10 at
Halifax’s Cunard Centre (961 Marginal Road).
Starting at 8pm AST (doors at 7pm), the event features performances from Ashley
MacIsaac, The Barra MacNeils, Charlie A’Court, Christina Martin, Classified, The
Dardanelles, Dave Gunning, David Myles, Jenn Grant, Mary Jane Lamond, Natalie
MacMaster, Paper Lions, Radio Radio, Repartee, Rich Aucoin, and Rose Cousins.
The event is broadcast nationally on Eastlink TV (Rogers TV in New Brunswick
and Newfoundland).
In
January, CBC Music and CBC Radio One's Atlantic Airwaves asked the public to
nominate their favourite East Coast songs to help celebrate the 25th
anniversary of the East Coast Music Association (ECMA). The resulting 10 songs
will be performed in a concert countdown that will be broadcast live on CBC
Radio One's Atlantic Airwaves
from the Spatz Theatre in Halifax on Saturday, March 09 at 4:30 p.m. The
concert will feature performances from George Canyon ("Let Me Fish Off
Cape St. Mary’s" and "Working Man"), Jenn Grant ("Nowhere
with You" and "Snowbird"), Ben Caplan ("When It Comes My
Turn" and "I’m Movin’ On"), Jimmy Rankin ("Fare Thee Well
Love" and "Farewell to Nova Scotia"), and Maureen Ennis
("Sonny’s Dream" and "Peter's Dream").
The
complete schedule for Eastlink East Coast Music Week is available here: http://www.ecma.com/ecmw/schedule
The
complete schedule for the 2013 Industry Conference is available here: http://www.ecma.com/connect/conference
The
ECMA app is now available. Developed by MindSea Development, the app is
vailable now for iPhone and Android. Discover East Coast artists and their
music and fully plan your Eastlink ECMW experience. You can search by day,
venue, artist, toggle between conference and festival, and build it all into
your device calendar. Connect with the organization and artists on social media
with a tap of your finger. Download now on the App Store or in Google play or
at www.ecma.com/app.
The
East Coast Music Association (ECMA) is a regional collaboration of people in
the music industry of Atlantic Canada that fosters, develops and celebrates
East Coast Music and its artists locally, regionally, nationally and
internationally. The ECMA annually produces one of the top music industry events
in Canada, East Coast Music Week, which includes awards, a festival, industry
conference and the International Export Buyers Program. The ECMA's 25th
Anniversary event takes place in Halifax, March 6-10, 2013.
