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Chad Kroeger, Call Me Maybe, Jack Lenz To Be Feted At SOCAN Awards

The Nickelback leader (pictured), a global pop smash, and a prolific film composer are amongst those to be honoured at the 30th anniversary gala in Toronto on April 1.

Chad Kroeger, Call Me Maybe, Jack Lenz To Be Feted At SOCAN Awards

By FYI Staff

Anticipation is growing for the 30th anniversary SOCAN Awards on April 1 in Toronto. Announced as recipients of Thirtieth Anniversary Honours are Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, the global smash "Call Me Maybe," and screen composer Jack Lenz.


2019 Special Achievement Winners are Drake, Ed Robertson, Frank Dukes, Jessie Reyez, Murda Beatz, Keith Power, and Ralph Murphy.

The evening also features the induction of Buffy Sainte-Marie into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Performances from Dallas Smith, Barenaked Ladies, Meghan Patrick, Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine and Anders are scheduled.

The full list of this year's SOCAN Award winners will be released on the evening of April 1.

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Lily Allen Coming to 3 Canadian Cities on 2026 North American Headlining Tour

The outing in support of the singer's provocative "West End Girl" album will be the singer's biggest U.S./Canada headlining outing to date.

Lily Allen is gearing up for her biggest North American headlining tour to date. The “Tennis” singer announced the dates for the nine-stop outing in support of her West End Girl album on Friday morning (Dec. 5), revealing that it is slated to kick off on April 3 in Chicago at The Auditorium, and feature stops in Toronto, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Los Angeles before winding down on April 28 at The Masonic in San Francisco.

Allen will perform the album in full on the tour, in the order the tracks appear on the LP, with tickets for Lily Allen Performs West End Girl slated to kick-off with an artist pre-sale sign-up open now through Monday (Dec. 8) at 11 p.m. ET. The artist pre-sale will then open at 10 a.m. local time on Dec. 10 and runt through 10 p.m. local time on Dec. 11. A general on-sale will then open at 10 a.m. local time on Dec. 12; click here for more ticketing information.

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