News Roundup (Cartoons, Annie Sumi, Anthony Tullo, Global Music Awards, more)

Pop Culture Shock Therapy

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Off the Mark

More Musical Toons

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News

Local

• No Depression review of Daniel Romano

Videos

• Annie Sumi on Drew Marshall Show
  
  
  
  Links: Annie Sumi, More Annie Sumi Stories, More Drew Marshall Show Episodes, Video above courtesy of drewmarshallshow
  
  
• Anthony Tullo on CHCH TV
  
  
  Links: Anthony Tullo, More Anthony Tullo Stories, More CHCH Videos, Video above courtesy of CHCH

Spectator Stories

• Reaching out through the power of Jazz
• Choir! Choir! Choir!
• Scroogissimo review
• Carl Horton
• Jazz music makes a difference
• Review of Elf: the Musical
• Grammy nominations
• Christian Lalama
• Reaction to banning 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'
• Shawn Mendes collaborate with Roots
• Handel's Messiah in Hamilton

FYI Music News

• Lyman Potts, Godfather Of Canadian Recordings passes
• Music Champion Grant Hurley passes
• CCMA Hall of Famer Brian Ferriman passes

Global Music Award Winners
Click above for complete list

Gold Medal Winners

• Magdalena Chovancova
• Nicholas DiEugenio and Mimi Solomon
• Robert Neustadt
• Peter Garland
• Sakinah Iman
• Alejandra Torres
• Jeeyoon Kim
• Ioanna and Areti Spanomarkou
• Carpe Diem String Quartet

Canadian Silver Winners

• Daniel Bellegarde (Montreal)
• Margaret Maria Tobolowska (Toronto)
• Milana Zilnik (Ottawa)
• Ori Dagan (Toronto)
• Toronto Tabla Ensemble

Canadian Bronze Winners

• Anna Gutmanis (Toronto)
• Calvin Kelly

Links: Global Music Awards, More GMA Stories

Canada

• Lyricist Claude Peloquin passes

Passings

• Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)

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Adventure of Trebleclef, the Music-Loving Monkey

Trebleclef is resting. He'll be back next week.

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GOOD LUCK! Local Toronto Independent Music Award Nominees!

Nominations for the 2017 Toronto Independent Music Awards were recently revealed and, as always, a number of local artists are in the running! These include Brad Cheeseman (Hamilton)

Tianna Woods (Burlington), Polarity (Oakville), Monty Greig (Acton), Girl Pow-R (Thorold), 

The Natrolites (Niagara Falls), Benjamin Dakota Rogers (Brantford), Wes Mason (Rockwood), 

Mikalyn Hay (Guelph) Jace Martin (Osweken) and Juneyt (Waterloo).

We're keeping our fingers crossed that many of them will be winning at the ceremony on Friday, October 13, 2017 at Revival in Toronto.

Here's a complete list of nominees. Local artists are bolded.

Folk or Roots

• Benjamin Dakota Rogers
• Amai Kuda and Y Josephine
• Carl Lorusso Jr.
• Abigail Lapell
• Sweet Roger
• Frank Deresti and the Lake Effect

Singer Songwriter

• Wes Mason
• Annie Bonsignore
• Dahlia
• Mark Martyre
• Mimi O’Bonsawin

Jazz Vocal

• Monty Greig
  
  
  
  Links: Monty Greig, More Monty Greig Stories, Video above courtesy of Monty Greig
  
  
• Twin Fin
• Ori Dagan
• Mike Field
• Gorilla Tophat

Jazz Instrumental

• Brad Cheeseman
• Chelsea McBride
• Snaggle
• Brownman Electryc Trio

Young Songwriter

• Mikalyn Hay
• Girl Pow-R
• Lyric Dubee
• Xtro
• Moscow Apartment

Country

• Tianna Woods
• Dani Strong
• Sohayla Smith Band
• The Argues
• Alessia Cohle
• Cheryl Casselman
• Campbell Woods

Instrumental or Classical

• Juneyt
  
  
  
  Links: Juneyt, More Juneyt Stories, Video above courtesy of Andy Borges
  
  
• Hogtown Brass Quintet
• The Roger Chong Quartet
• NUA
• Lukus Benoit

Adult Contemporary

• Jace Martin
  
  
  
  Links: Jace Martin, More Jace Martin Stories, Video above courtesy of Vee Tee
• Dennis Sy
• Late Night Conversations
• Angela Saini
• Sarah Smith
• Emily Mac

Indie

• The Natrolites
• MONOWHALES
• FXRRVST
• Dress Black
• Lemon Cash
• Mermaids Exist

World

• Lady Freyja
• Johannes Linstead
• Meg Moonbeam
• The Achromatics

Rock

• Polarity 
• Floating Floors
• Eden Warsaw
• Holy Smokes
• Mully Jacksons
• Rose Cora Perry
• The Dreamboats

Music Video

• Lauren Haze: Flatline
• Abigail Lapell: Night Bird and Morning Bird
• Mimi O’Bonaswin: Beautiful Place
• Mermaids Exist: Call Me A Liar
• KAIS: Ain't Goin Nowhere

Pop

• Stephanie Braganza
• Roveena
• Porsha
• Sam Louis
• Azeem Haq

Urban

• ColinResponse
• Mickey Blue
• Temi
• Jae Cabrera
• DRAE

Electronic

• Honey Beard
• Romeo Taylor
• Silver Lining
• Miss Tara
• Computronic

Out of Province

• The Wolfe
• Familiar Wild
• Kiérah
• KAIS
• Alex Maher
• Delhi 2 Dublin

USA

• Amy Guess
• Brown Kid
• Almond and Olive
• Teresa Eggertsen Cooke
• Patrick Joseph
• The Fallen Stars

International

• Johanna EstHer
• Carito Plaza
• Simon Meola TLE
• Napkin Play
• Dino Miranda

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winners

Links: Toronto Independent Music Awards, More TIMA Stories

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CONGRATS! Local and Canadian Global Music Award Winners!

The Global Music Awards are a prestigious international music competition and on September 2017, a number of Canadian artists won silver and bronze medals for their amazing work.

In the local scene, Waterloo's JoJo Worthington earned a silver medal for her song Mid Youth Crisis

Links: JoJo Worthington, More JoJo Worthington Stories, Song above courtesy of JoJo's Bandcamp page

More Canadian winners listed below.

Complete List of Gold Medal Winners

• Barbara Kortmann: Inner Lights (Classical Flautist)
• Stephen Emmer: Home Ground (Producer, Lyrics, Best of Show)
• Sangpuy: Yaangad (World Music, Aboriginal)
• Gary Smart: Bright Eyed Fancy (Composer)
• Paquito D’Rivera, Hernan Milla, Carlos Cano: Por La Rivera De Paquito (Latin Jazz Crossover)
• Dorothy Hindman: Tightly Wound: Music for Strings (Composer)
• Trio Rodin: Enrique Granados: Chamber Music with PianoTrio (Album)
• Amjad Ali Khan, Elmira Darvarova, Amaan Ali, Ayaan Ali Bangash, Anubratga Chaterjee: Peace Worshipers (World Music)
• ​Shane Burke: Hey Hey (Americana, Male Vocalist)
• Michail Travlos and Iwona Glinka: Progressions (Composer, Flautist)
• Spina and Benignetti Piano Duo: Lifetime (Emerging Artists)
• Zhiyi Wang: Dali Holiday (Original Score, Composer)

Canadian Silver Medal Winners

• JoJo Worthington: Mid Youth Crisis (Experimental Folk, Emerging Artist)
• Kiki Love: Illusion (Easy Listening)
• Ori Dagan: Nathaniel: A Tribute to Nat King Cole (Album)

Canadian Bronze Medal Winners

• Brenda Dirk: Miss All About Me (Country, Emerging Artist)
  
  
  
  Links: Brenda Dirk, Video above courtesy of Reyjax Media Inc
  
  
• Carlos Saunier: Inminente (Jazz, Emerging Artist)
  
  
  
  Links: Carlos Saunier, Video above courtesy of Carlos Saunier
  
  
• Rhonda Head: Kisahkihitan (Crossover Song)

Click here for the complete list

Blast from the Past: June 2017's Winners

Links: Global Music Awards, More Global Music Award Stories

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