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Deadline Looming For $100K It's Your Shot Song Contest

There are just a few more weeks to enter Slaight Music's annual It's Your Shot contest, which now offers a grand prize of $100,000 to help advance your music career.

Deadline Looming For $100K It's Your Shot Song Contest

By FYI Staff

There are just a few more weeks to enter Slaight Music's annual It's Your Shot contest, which now offers a grand prize of $100,000 to help advance your music career.


The Slaight Music initiative aims to develop rising Canadian songwriters of every genre.

In this round, the winner will receive a recording, distribution, radio promotion, publicity, and marketing support (through Hidden Pony/Universal Music Canada), along with a professionally produced photo shoot, artist biography and two music videos.

Past winners of “It’s Your Shot” include London, ON’s, Liz Coyles, Quispamsis, NB’s Jillea, Guelph, ON’s Sam Drysdale and Toronto’s Kayla Diamond.

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Patrick Watson Becomes the First Montrealer to Win the Montreal Jazz Festival's Spirit Award Since Leonard Cohen

Watson was presented the honour by Montreal mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada during an intimate ceremony this morning (July 2). Watson headlines the festival with a free show tomorrow night (July 3).

Patrick Watson just received a major distinction from the world's biggest jazz festival.

This morning (July 2), Patrick Watson was honoured with the 2026 Spirit Award at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. The award celebrates the quality and innovation of an artist’s work, as well as their decisive influence on international popular music as a whole. He becomes the first Montrealer to win the award since Leonard Cohen in 2008.

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