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FYI Calendar of Grant and Funding Deadlines: June 8, 2020

Chasing some dollars to fund your next recording or cross-country tour? Hoping to enter your songs into a lucrative competition? Seeking showcase opportunities at festivals and conferences? Check our calendar and get into the groove. Keep in mind that pandemic fears are likely to threaten some of the events listed. Applications to showcase at Halifax Pop Explosion 2020 (pictured) close on June 12.

FYI Calendar of Grant and Funding Deadlines: June 8, 2020

By Kerry Doole

Festivals and Conference Submission Deadlines

 

Now Open

CIMA Road Gold certification. Awarded to artists selling at least 25K tickets during their Canadian tour(s) over a 12-month period

 


 

Grants and Funding Deadlines

 

Now open

SOCAN Foundation Travel Assistance Program

 


 

Now open

Canada Council Grants

 


 

Now open

FACTOR Songwriting Development Program

 


 

Now open

Applications for Allan Slaight Juno Master Class

 


 

12-Jun-20

Showcase applications for HPX 2020

 


 

15-Jun-20

Applications for MVP Project

 


 

18-Jun-20

Applications open for OMIF - Music Industry Initiatives

 


 

31-Jul-20

Nominations for Canadian Folk Music Awards

 


 

29-Jul-20

Applications for Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund for music docs

 


 

01-Sep-20

Applications for FACTOR Showcase Production

 


 

Other Conferences and Business Opportunities

 

15-20-Sep-20

Americana Music fest and conference, Nashville, TN

 


 

22-Sep-Oct-4-20

Sing! Toronto Vocal Arts Festival

 


 

30-Sep-Oct-4-20

BreakOut West, Winnipeg, MB

 


 

1-4-Oct-20

CMAOntario Awards and festival, London, ON

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21-24-Oct-20

Halifax Pop Explosion 2020, Halifax, NS

 


 

18-21-Nov-20

M for Montreal, Montreal, PQ

 


 

9-10_Apr-2021

Canadian Folk Music Awards, Charlottetown, PE

 


 

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Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
Richard Sibbald

Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

Rock

Rush Jump To Aid Victims of Venezuelan Earthquakes With Special Edition Starman Shirt

The action comes after two massive earthquakes hit the country on June 24.

Prog rock legends Rush have teamed up with Fantoons on a special-edition T-shirt benefiting the victims of the devastating earthquakes that hit Venezuela on June 24. The two massive magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes which struck less than a minute apart, have claimed more than 2,200 lives and left 11,000 injured, with thousands of citizens still unaccounted for.

In an Instagram post from Fantoons — the L.A.-based animation studio that has created Rush-themed puzzles, mugs, cereal boxes and bass pickguards over the past decade — the studio said the strongest quakes to hit the country in more than a century left “countless families with nothing but the dust of where their homes stood.”

This article first appeared on Billboard U.S.

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