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“It’s incredible to have been part of our music scene for all these years. In our daily work, drawing inspiration from artists creativity and people’s enthusiasm towards what you are producing in your job is a rare fate. Plain amazing to be recognized by your peers for this,” says André Menard and Alain Simard.
André Ménard numbers among the most influential figures in the Quebec artistic community, having greatly contributed to the cultural life of Montreal. Working in the domain of live show and concert production since 1975, he has had a 30-year association with Alain Simard as co-founder and vice-president of L’Équipe Spectra. He is also the cofounder and artistic director of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.
André has held seats on a number of boards including ADISQ from 1980 to 1993 (including two years as president); Chambre de Commerce du Montréal Métropolitain from 1992 to 1994; Jazz Alliance International (JAI), a non-profit organization based in New York, a subsidiary of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) 2005-2008; Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois from 2001-2009 and La La La Human Steps Dance Company since 1995
He has also been a member of the Conseil d’administration du partenariat du Quartier des spectacles since its inception in 2003. Ménard was also responsible for the original idea behind the “Quartier des theatres”, an idea first taken up and illustrated during a speech by Alain Simard at the Board of Trade in the late ’90s.
Over the years, a number of awards have been bestowed upon André including; Recipient of the first Hall of Fame Award, presented by National Jazz Awards Canada (2004); Winner of the Reconnaissance award presented by RIDEAU (2003); Winner of the prix Events producer of the year presented by the Jazz Journalist Association (2002); Personality of the Week, La Presse (2001); Chevalier des Arts et lettres of the French Republic (1993) and Personality of the Week, La Presse (1988)
Alain Simard completed his classical studies at Collège St Ignace in Montreal, where in 1969 he began to launch live shows at a student café, La Clef, which hosted the era’s first “underground” groups. In the early ’70s, together with Productions Kosmos, he brought to Montreal stages such artists as Pink Floyd, Genesis and B.B. King, among others. He later became the personal manager of Paul Piché, Offenbach, Claude Dubois and Michel Rivard, launched the TV production company Spectel-Video with Momentum Vidéofilm and helped create ADISQ with Guy Latraverse.
Founder of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the FrancoFolies de Montréal, the Montreal High Lights Festival, La Grande Mascarade, and more recently, the Montreal International Film Festival, Alain Simard has been the president and CEO of L’Équipe Spectra – a recognized leader in Quebec’s cultural industry – since its inception in 1977. In the last 35 years, Mr. Simard’s exceptional contribution to the cultural and entertainment industry has boosted Montreal’s international visibility. Thanks to his love of music, Mr. Simard has made Montreal a destination of choice for millions of festival goers around the world.
Over the years, Mr. Simard has received numerous prizes, including the Félix Hommage at the ADISQ Gala; the Prix Hommage from the Société des Fêtes et Festivals du Québec; the special prize Mérites du français dans le Commerce 2000, awarded by the Office québécois de la langue française; and the Grand Prix Ulysse trophy from Tourisme Montréal. He also holds the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, bestowed on him by the Republic of France, as well as of Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade. In 2003, La Presse called him “the most influential personality in the Quebec cultural sector” and, in 2004, he was named Grand entrepreneur de l’année 2004 by Groupe Perform.
Alain has served on numerous boards, including ADISQ, the Institut québécois du Cinéma, ARTV, Tourisme Montréal and the Fondation du Maire de Montréal pour la Jeunesse. He currently sits on the boards of the Montreal International Film Festival, the Montreal High Lights Festival, the FrancoFolies de Montréal, the Montreal International Jazz Festival, and all the boards of Équipe Spectra’s subsidiaries and/or affiliated companies: Amerimage-Spectra, Sogestalt Television, Bleu Blanc Rouge Productions, Zingaro Films, Libretto Productions and Spectra Animation.
Parents, get ready for your victory lap because your bedtime-stalling kids just met their match. It’s no secret kids will say everything from the outrageous – “I hate the inside of my eyelids” – to the hard-to-argue-with “I’m starving-dying of thirst-need to pee” excuse to avoid bedtime o’clock. Now, with the help of Netflix and DreamWorks Animation, grown-ups can stop the kids’ shenanigans while making some mischief of their own.
With today’s launch of five-minute-long ‘favorites’ of the hit series Dinotrux from DreamWorks Animation, parents can offer up an ENTIRE SHOW – that’s 300 whole seconds, kids – to motivate little ones to get ready for bedtime, pronto. Kids will think they’re getting away with murder, but parents will get the last laugh when the show ends after just five minutes and the kids are tucked in on time. Parents: 1, Kids’ Bedtime Stalls: 0.
While short on time, the new Dinotrux 5 Minute Favorites are big on kid-approved action. Netflix and DreamWorks Animation engineered the new shows knowing exactly what kids love most: rewatching their favorite scenes. Parents know when kids like a show, they really like it. And ask to re-watch their favorite scenes over, and over, and over again. The three new 5 Minute Favorites, launching today on Netflix, showcase favorite scenes following the rapid adventures of Ty-Rux and Revvit as they demonstrate important lessons of teamwork and friendship – even among the unlikeliest of pairs. To watch on Netflix simply search for 5 Minute Favorites.
It turns out that bedtime stalls are a universal problem faced by parents around the world. Netflix polled parents across seven countries (US, UK, France, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico) and found 61 percent of parents who are in charge of getting their children tucked in at night are dealing with their kids’ creative stall tactics at bedtime. All of that lollygagging adds up to parents spending nearly 20 minutes every single night negotiating with kids to get them into bed.
The Jagged Little Chicks perform an all-clucking rendition of Alanis Morissette’s hit song “Ironic.”
https://youtu.be/IBK8qSnBlHo
Not be confused with “Shot Through the Heart”, an unrelated song from Bon Jovi’s 1984 self-titled debut album, “You Give Love a Bad Name” was a monster hit, the first single from their 1986 album Slippery When Wet. Written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child about a woman who has jilted her lover, the song reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 29, 1986 to become the band’s first number one hit. In 2007, the song reentered the charts at No. 29 after Blake Lewis performed it on American Idol. In 2009 it was named the 20th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.
Jon Bon Jovi’s vocals
Richie Sambora’s giutar
…and here’s the full-on glorious ’80s video:
A day after Katy Perry tweeted she had just completed her 151-date Prismatic world tour and that it was “only By The Grace Of God that I made each & every one of them”, One Direction had to cancel their show in Belfast at the last minute due to Liam Payne falling ill.
Insurers and underwriters looking at Perry’s next tour will regard it as low risk. But they will be keeping a closer eye on One Direction, even though the show was quickly rescheduled, and mentally reworking the numbers if more shows get cancelled. Since record sales started to tumble 15 years ago, touring has become the way that most acts make a living these days. The numbers are staggering. Taylor Swift, for example, is grossing $2.93m per night on her 1989 tour, based on from figures published by Billboard. With stakes this high, touring insurance, on the surface an admittedly dry subject, has never been more important.
Acts on the road generally take out three types of insurance: equipment (to protect against damage and theft); public liability (in case an audience member is injured during a show); and non-appearance. The last two are relatively modern developments, but it is non-appearance that is arguably the most critical, especially as tours become longer.
At the start of October, promoter and agent John Giddings spoke at the International Festival Forum and suggested that David Bowie has effectively retired from touring, having performed his last solo British show in 2004 at the Isle of Wight festival (which Giddings runs). There have been rumours that Bowie is not willing to put himself through the exertion of a world tour. Unlike, say, 74-year-old Bob Dylan, who has played between 85 and 112 shows every year this century, Bowie has not played for so long it could be difficult to insure a tour against cancellations.
Via The Guardian
Actor, filmmaker, and artist, James Franco, shares stories from growing up in California, from his bad-boy days in Palo Alto to a brief stint in the UCLA cafeteria. Franco shares the inspiration beneath his many hats as a performer in California Inspires Me, a Google Play x California Sunday Magazine collaboration.
These people came from a wide variety of backgrounds and went on to have unique careers and lives. This is resolutely not a ‘Making of Star Wars’ documentary. Star Wars is merely the common ground shared by these people and just a starting point for collecting the experiences of this generation of performers. It tells the story of six decades of British theatre, cinema and movie conventions from the perspective of working actors whose characters’ fame often seems to eclipse their own. The film explores the industry, the craft and the acting life. It reflects on what makes and sustains a pop culture phenomenon, how it feels and what it means to be a part of that legacy. Most importantly, it forms a portrait of a generation of performers and the British film industry, which facilitated the rise of the Hollywood blockbuster.
Roger Waters, co-founder and principal songwriter of Pink Floyd, fuses the epic and the personal in Roger Waters The Wall, a concert film that goes well beyond the stage. Based on the groundbreaking concept album, Roger Waters The Wall could be called a concept film: it’ s a state-of-the-art show that dazzles the senses, combined with an intensely personal road trip that deals with the loss Roger has felt throughout his life due to war.
The film will be available for digital HD download November 17 and on Blu-ray & DVD December 1, 2015.
In 2014 Music PEI embarked on an economic impact analysis of the Island’s music industry. Little Island, Big Voice is the first of its kind and we commissioned Nordicity to complete it. They are a well respected company with years of experience and a history of similar studies for other provincial and national organizations similar to Music PEI.
The study included surveys and focus groups along with comprehensive data collection and analytics. The results provide us with a much needed benchmark we can now use to assess the performance and growth of our industry for future years.
The Music PEI Board of Directors will now use this data and input from membership to create an update to our first Strategic Plan created in 2008. The new strategic plan will map out the course of the organization for the next 5 years.
