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Maintaining credibility and consistency on YouTube: Revisions to YouTube Music Charts and 24-hour record debut policy

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Maintaining credibility and consistency on YouTube: Revisions to YouTube Music Charts and 24-hour record debut policy

From “American Bandstand” to “TRL,” every generation naturally finds its own barometer to measure the hottest songs and artists of the moment. For this generation, it’s YouTube. There is simply no better current measure of the world’s music listening than YouTube. Every day, we strive to showcase and celebrate the hottest artists, songs and music videos from around the world.

Today, we’re sharing some important changes made to YouTube Music Charts, the go-to destination to see what’s popular, what’s rising and trending both locally and globally on YouTube, and updates to how we determine videos that are eligible for 24-hour record debuts on YouTube.

YouTube Music Charts have become an indispensable source for the industry and the most accurate place for measuring the popularity of music listening behavior happening on the world’s largest music platform. In an effort to provide more transparency to the industry and align with the policies of official charting companies such as Billboard and Nielsen, we are no longer counting paid advertising views on YouTube in the YouTube Music Charts calculation. Artists will now be ranked based on view counts from organic plays.

Over the last few years, fans, artists, and their teams have touted the number of views a video receives on YouTube within the first 24 hours as the definitive representation of its instant cultural impact. It’s a great honor and one we take very seriously. As we look to maintain consistency and credibility across our platform, we’ve made some necessary revisions to our methodology for reporting 24-hour record debuts.

Our goal is to ensure YouTube remains a place where all artists are accurately recognized and celebrated for achieving success and milestones. Videos eligible for YouTube’s 24-hour record debuts are those with the highest views from organic sources within the first 24 hours of the video’s public release. This includes direct links to the video, search results, external sites that embed the video and YouTube features like the homepage, watch next and Trending. Video advertising is an effective way to reach specific audiences with a song debut, but paid advertising views on YouTube will no longer be considered when looking at a 24-hour record debut. The changes will not impact YouTube’s existing 24-hour record debut holders.

Staying true to YouTube’s overall mission of giving everyone a voice and showing them the world, we want to celebrate all artist achievements on YouTube as determined by their global fans. It’s the artists and fans that have made YouTube the best and most accurate measure of the world’s listening tastes, and we intend on keeping it that way.

Additional information on how YouTube Music Charts are calculated can be found here and additional details about YouTube Views and ads can be found here.

Peter Gabriel Releases B-sides, Remixes and Rarities Album “Flotsam and Jetsam”

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Flotsam and Jetsam is a collection of B-sides, remixes and rarities from across Peter Gabriel’s solo career. Over 60 tracks are featured, mostly all of which have been previously released physically, either on 7”, 12” or CD singles, soundtrack or tribute albums, but, with a few exceptions, are being released digitally for the first time.

The collection – arranged chronologically – is split into three eras. The first, 1976-1985, covers the period from Peter first going solo to the end of his run of four self-titled solo albums. It opens with a cover version of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, the first time Peter featured on a release after leaving Genesis. The second, 1986-1993, are Peter’s popstar years with music released around the albums ‘So’ and ‘Us’. The third era is 1994-2016and features remixes from the ‘Up’ album, plus tracks used in various films and notable cover versions. It ends with Peter’s song ‘The Veil’, written especially for the Oliver Stone movie ‘Snowden’.

Across the collection are a handful of previously unreleased versions of songs, most notably, the extended version of ‘Slowburn’ (PG1), the full version of ‘Don’t Break This Rhythm’ (an edit featured as the B-side to Sledgehammer) and the tracks ‘Curtains (Broad Mix)’ and ‘Father, Son (Daniel Lanois and Richard Chappell Mix)’ both only previously available on the non-commercial Music Industry Trust Awards CD ‘Uscita’.

How Couples In Music Make Their Relationships Work [VIDEO]

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Music and romance go hand in hand, but making love last in the music industry can be a struggle. The history of the entertainment business is littered with failed relationships, but more and more professionals are finding a way to make love last.

On this episode of Music Biz, host James Shotwell calls on singer/songwriter Ellie Holcomb to share how she and husband Drew Holcomb maintain a strong relationship and raise a family while both remaining very active in the industry. Ellie shares advice she was given by other professionals, as well as things she has learned through her own experiences with Drew.

Richard Linklater’s “Woodshock ’85” a short doc on a punk festival in Austin, Texas

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This short documentary chronicles the chaos of the Austin, Texas music festival, “Woodshock ’85”, featuring a young Daniel Johnston promoting his “Hi, How Are You?” cassette.

Calgary’s TETRIX Release Album #17 and It Sounds Like ‘Hank Williams on Acid’

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Calgary’s TETRIX Release Album #17 and It Sounds Like ‘Hank Williams on Acid’

Psych-country.

That’s it, that’s the pitch when it comes to Canada’s indie alt. outfit TETRIX and their new single, “Every House Has A Light On” — available now.

After 16 albums for the Calgary-based duo, Connor Gottfried and Neil Pockett have managed to further experiment with experimental, delivering a fresh, original sound that fuses the essence of old-time country with modern psychedelic music. And campus radio stations are responding, with their latest album debuting this very week in the Canadian Electronic Chart at #10!

“Think ‘Hank Williams on acid’ or ‘melted accordion Kraftwerk,’” Gottfried details of their release by the same name, Every House Has A Light On. “For this album, we wanted to connect vintage country chord progressions and accordion with analog drum machines and avant-garde editing.

“Each song was recorded as an extended 20 to 30-minute improv session which was then chopped and edited using Ableton Live into the final arrangement heard on the album.”

The results are as intriguing as they sound, and lands as a sonic gold star for the pair of skateboarding outsiders of sorts growing up in small-town Manitoba during the 90s. “We were surrounded by old-time country music but drawn to the punk, grunge, and electronic sounds of the outside world,” Gottfried continues. “In the early 2000’s, and after moving to Calgary, we formed TETRIX with a focus on genre-mashing improvised jazz, psychedelic, electronica, pop, noise, and punk, all run through a cutting-edge, computerized editing process.”

The concept was an easy one for Gottfried; as the main editor for TETRIX, he is also an award-winning technologist, and named one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40.

Between 2001 – 2018, the band released 16 albums of authentic, avant-garde experimental improv music, along with a 12” compilation LP on Belgium’s MeWe Le Disque. The band toured Europe in 2007 and their live show featured a custom LED, laser and smoke show that audience members took in through a pair of glasses specially filtered for viewing fireworks, to trippy result.

TETRIX has been featured in a number of International magazines — including Voxer, Future Music and Trax in Europe — along with an appearance of their track “Jesus Put the Purple Haze in My Veins” in a Belgium feature-length film.

Experimental by nature, Gottfried and Pockett began playing around with various analog instruments like pedal steel and sitar. It was a fateful 2015-era purchase, however, that revealed the sound you hear today: a vintage Italian accordion.

“We’ve been using a fully-improvised process throughout our time as a band and find it produces fresh interesting patterns and novel changes,” Gottfried reflects. “For this album, we primarily used that vintage Italian accordion and an Arturia Drumbrute, along with various hardware synthesizers and effects processors — including a vocoder to introduce de-pitching noise effects on the vocal tracks.

“Our aim was to try and bring the beauty of the classic country chord progressions and the rich tonality of the accordion into the context of 21st century electronic music.

“Both Neil and I were born and raised in the prairies and this album fuses that influence back into the progressive sounds we’ve been working with for the last 20 years. I’m also a visual/abstract artist and for the cover Neil and I hand-crafted sleeves from canvas, paper and acrylic using a formula I’ve developed for my large format paintings. Each cover is completely unique and this is our way of representing the elements of chance and texture that have shaped our sound.”

Every House Has A Light On is available now.

Photo Gallery: Of Monsters And Men with Lower Dens at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage

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Photo Gallery: Of Monsters And Men with Lower Dens at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage

All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com

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JUNO Award Winner Jazz Vocalist Diana Panton Set To Release “A Cheerful Little Earful”

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JUNO Award Winner Jazz Vocalist Diana Panton Set To Release “A Cheerful Little Earful”

One of the brightest jewels in the crown of Canada’s contribution to vocal jazz, two-time JUNO Award winner Diana Panton again brings her distinctive brand of sweet, sincere, swinging elegance straight to the hearts of young and old alike with her second album for children and families, A Cheerful Little Earful, to be released on October 18, 2019.

Conceived as a spirited encore to Diana Panton’s JUNO-winning debut children’s album, I Believe in Little Things, A Cheerful Little Earful is a thoughtfully curated treasure of sparkling gems from the Great American Songbook seasoned with universally recognized hits from Disney, Sesame Street, and more.

In perfect harmony with the authentic jazz sound and style of Diana Panton’s unforgettable voice is the splendid artistry of the album’s instrumental team who possess stellar international credentials of their own. Order of Canada recipient Don Thompson has established a secure place for himself in the galaxy of jazz greats for both his formidable instrumental accomplishments and his stylish and sensitive musical arrangements. Complementing all this talent is the superb playing of National Jazz Award-winning guitarist Reg Schwager.

Both Thompson and Schwager were members of the George Shearing Quartet, and their high-quality solos shimmer with beauty and veracity throughout A Cheerful Little Earful. The album provides a vibrant connection for kids and adults to the sound, the style, and the spirit of the world of jazz.

A Cheerful Little Earful sets the stage with the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, “Happy Talk,” where the accompaniment creatively “chatters” along in perfect agreement with the light, bright sound of Diana’s cheerful vocals. The jazz waltz joie de vivre of “It’s a Most Unusual Day” provides a scintillating pulse for Diana’s effervescent voice, which itself gives flight to the joy and optimism of the song’s lyrics, while Schwager and Thompson blend the sounds of piano, guitar, vibraphone, and bass in a haunting reflection of that most sophisticated gentleman, George Shearing.

The Shearing sound takes another bow with a tune straight from the heart of the American Songbook, “Pocketful of Miracles,” while Diana’s a capella treatment of the opening verse of “Look to the Rainbow” brings out the pure fantasy of this song from the musical Finian’s Rainbow. Bilingual Diana sings in both English and French on “All in the Golden Afternoon” from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, her French interpretation falling gracefully within the aurally delicious parameters of the French pop chanson style.

Since the release of her first album in 2005, Diana Panton’s career has never ceased to accumulate momentum, drawing international acclaim for her ten albums as well as the impressive variety and quality of her catalogue of songs. The numerous honours garnered include JUNO Awards for I Believe in Little Things in 2017 and RED in 2015, two Silver Disc Awards in Japan, six JUNO nominations, nine Hamilton Music Awards, and a host of National Jazz Awards and Canadian and American Independent Music Award nominations. I Believe in Little Things topped the jazz charts on Amazon and iTunes in Canada and the US, rising to #1 on Amazon’s “Movers and Shakers” chart and debuting at #8 on Billboard. It was also a Top 10 Jazz Bestseller at HMV Japan and #1 Jazz Album of the Year on Books.com in Taiwan. The album received a four-star review in DownBeat magazine and was one of their Best Albums of the Year for 2016. Diana’s 2017 release, solstice/equinox, was a JUNO Vocal Jazz Album nominee, a DownBeat magazine Editor’s Pick, and was named one of the Top Albums of the Year by Ici Musique.

Toronto’s Chaotic and Catchy Art Pop / Experimental Rocker GLUTENHEAD Release “A Windy Day” Video

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Toronto’s Chaotic and Catchy Art Pop / Experimental Rocker GLUTENHEAD Release “A Windy Day” Video

Chaotic and catchy by deliberately delightful design, Canadian psychedelic art pop / experimental rock vanguard Glutenhead has released his debut full-length LP, Glugen Frau — available now!

The album — and its premiere single “how it feels” — pull the curtain back on Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Benjamin Shapiro, and his distinctly multi-layered sonic style.

“The music is mostly aimed at representing the impressionistic and surreal quality of dreams and memories,” Shapiro shares. “I was studying neuroscience when I learned just how fluidly our brains construct our reality. The brain’s weakness and strength is the inability to discern what is real. There is a top-down influence on our perception, our minds simultaneously making connections between bits of information and building what we perceive.

“I learned how every word, construct, idea has weight because each has the capacity for a universe, and an opportunity for meaning. Each one holds time and place inside itself, recalling personal experience, and allowing that internal experience to unfold into the external world. Language, then, becomes a raw material to construct the experience around it.”

As he started to tire of his course load — which also included philosophy and music — Glutenhead “became an outlet for my creative and existential musings.”

“It exists as a project linked to a place and people. It’s the composite of the influence of living, writing, and recording in ‘Casa del Crusto’ — a 19th century, completely cut-up and slightly run-down Victorian home on a quiet side street in the middle of hot streak Toronto — that was always full of people moving in and out, bringing home their own kinds of mess and endeavours.

It’s a chaos that considers the coming-to of a collective thought, the friction and energy between people, their own intimacies.”

It was at ‘Casa del Crusto’ that Shapiro connected the ultimate dot: the term ‘glugen frau’ and how it fit into his musical and life experience.

“The phrase first came up in my life innocuously about five years ago,” he recalls. “I was 18, in Berlin, and sitting with a girl at a restaurant. Vintage tin cans lined the walls and the air tasted like malt, celery, and burnt orange.

“Gluten didn’t sit well with her and, at some point, it came time to let our German-speaking waiter know about her non-gluten needs. In a moment of manic, realizing I didn’t know any German, I asked for the food to be ‘glugen frau’.”

Glugen Frau — now the name of the album — translates roughly into English as ‘glimmering woman.’

“That phrase became sticky in my mind,” he shares. “Cropping up in my consciousness, it’s faint… Then jumps out when triggered, like any memory that becomes symbolic. Leaking, like a pen on the run from the law.

“That phrase and its multiplicity of meaning — both personal, temporal and external — fit as the basis of this project. The album is an exercise of living within — within a house, a dream, a city, a memory, a projected landscape — and designed to be brought through time, like a mechanism to wrap personal feelings around, create memories around, or fabricate fantasies with.

“Like honey catching flies, it’s a way to attach the internal into something that can be accessed externally. The music is not ‘on top of time,’ but inside it, and best understood by living with it.

“These songs uncover themselves as you inhabit them.”

Glugen Frau and “A Windy Day” are available now.

Prince’s ‘1999’ Album to Be Reissued With 35 Unreleased Songs

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Prince’s ‘1999’ Album to Be Reissued With 35 Unreleased Songs

Considered one of the most iconic and influential double albums in rock history, Prince’s 1999 was released at a major turning point in the artist’s career. After years of being relegated to the R&B charts, he experienced his first true crossover moment with the mega-hits “Little Red Corvette,” “1999,” and “Delirious,“ shattering barriers with his revolutionary blend of rock, funk, R&B and new wave pop, and making history by being one of the first black artists to have their videos in heavy rotation on MTV.

The songs included on 1999 were just a small sampling of the work that was pouring out of Prince in the intensely prolific period of 1981 and 1982. In addition to his own material, he was also working up tracks that he would give to his protégés Vanity 6 and The Time, and recording dozens of songs that would be stored for possible later use, archiving them in his growing vault of unreleased material.

This November 29, The Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Records, will reissue 1999 via all physical, digital and streaming partners, with the timeless album remastered for the very first time, along with 35 previously unreleased tracks from Prince’s legendary vault that showcase the creative flow Prince had tapped into during this era.

The reissue suite will be comprised of the following formats:

  • Super Deluxe Edition (5CD+DVD / 10LP+DVD / audio-only download and streaming)
  • Deluxe Edition (2CD / 4LP 180g vinyl / download and streaming)
  • Remastered album (1CD / 2LP 180g Purple Vinyl / download and streaming)

The 1999 Super Deluxe Edition represents the deepest dive to date into Prince’s vault and includes a total of 65 audio tracks across five CDs and ten 180g vinyl records.

The Super Deluxe Edition brings fans all the audio material that Prince officially released in and around 1982, as well as 23 previously unissued studio tracks recorded between November 1981 and January 1983, and a complete live audio performance of the 1999 tour recorded at the late show (the second of two that day) in Detroit, MI on November 30, 1982.

In addition, both CD and vinyl sets also boast a brand-new DVD containing another complete, previously unreleased concert from the 1999 tour, recorded in multi-cam live at the Houston Summit on December 29, 1982.

The Super Deluxe Edition set also features Prince’s previously unseen handwritten lyrics for several songs from the era, including the hit “Little Red Corvette,” plus images of the analog tape reels from the vault and rare photography from Prince’s early ‘80s photographer, Allen Beaulieu. The Super Deluxe Edition is completed with brand-new liner notes by longtime Rolling Stone critic David Fricke, revered Guns N’ Roses bassist and author Duff McKagan, Minneapolis historian and radio host Andrea Swensson, and Prince scholar Duane Tudahl.

Fricke notes, “A landmark collection of vision, craft, and urgency – an unprecedented immersion in the frenetic momentum and private working world of Prince in 1981 and 1982, en route to the profound breakthrough of his fifth studio album, 1999.”

The 1999 Super Deluxe Edition shines a forensic light on the creative output of this truly unique musician, songwriter, producer, and performer at a pivotal point in his career and demonstrates why his unsurpassed body of work continues to generate so much love and passion around the world.

PRINCE – 1999 REMASTERED AND EXPANDED EDITION FORMAT & TRACKLISTINGS

SUPER DELUXE EDITION

(5CD+DVD / 10LP+DVD / Digital *)

CD1 / LP 1&2: Remastered Album

1         1999
2         Little Red Corvette
3         Delirious
4         Let’s Pretend We’re Married
5         D.M.S.R.
6         Automatic
7         Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
8         Free
9         Lady Cab Driver
10       All The Critics Love U In New York
11       International Lover

CD2 / LP 3&4: Promo Mixes & B-Sides

1         1999 (7″ stereo edit)
2         1999 (7″ mono promo-only edit)
3         Free (promo-only edit)
4         How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore (“1999″ b-side)
5         Little Red Corvette (7″ edit)
6         All The Critics Love U In New York (7” edit)
7         Lady Cab Driver (7″ edit)
8         Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix promo-only edit)
9         Little Red Corvette (Special Dance Mix)
10       Delirious (7” edit)
11       Horny Toad (“Delirious” b-side)
12       Automatic (7″ edit)
13       Automatic (video version)
14       Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ edit)
15       Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ mono promo-only edit)
16       Irresistible Bitch (“Let’s Pretend We’re Married” b-side)
17       Let’s Pretend We’re Married (video version)
18       D.M.S.R. (edit)

CD3 / LP 5&6: Vault, Part 1       

1         Feel U Up
2         Irresistible Bitch
3         Money Don’t Grow On Trees
4         Vagina
5         Rearrange
6         Bold Generation
7         Colleen
8         International Lover (Take 1, live in studio)
9         Turn It Up
10       You’re All I Want
11       Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) (Original Version)
12       If It’ll Make U Happy
13       How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Take 2, live in studio)
 
All tracks previously unreleased
CD4 / LP 7&8: Vault, Part 2       

1         Possessed (1982 version)
2         Delirious (full length)
3         Purple Music
4         Yah, You Know
5         Moonbeam Levels **
6         No Call U
7         Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got
8         Do Yourself A Favor
9         Don’t Let Him Fool Ya
10       Teacher, Teacher
11       Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Head / Little Red Corvette (tour demo)

All tracks previously unreleased except **, released on the 2016 compilation, 4Ever
CD5 / LP 9&10: Live In Detroit – November 30, 1982 (midnight show)     

1         Controversy
2         Let’s Work
3         Little Red Corvette
4         Do Me, Baby
5         Head
6         Uptown
7         Interlude
8         How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
9         Automatic
10       International Lover
11       1999
12       D.M.S.R.

All tracks previously unreleased        

DVD: Live In Houston – December 29, 1982 *

1         Controversy
2         Let’s Work
3         Do Me, Baby
4         D.M.S.R.
5         Interlude – piano improvisation (contains elements of “With You”)
6         How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
7         Lady Cab Driver
8         Automatic
9         International Lover
10       1999
11       Head (contains elements of “Sexuality”)

All tracks previously unreleased

 

* N.B. video content is exclusive to the physical DVD and will not appear on digital download or streaming versions of the Super Deluxe Edition set.

DELUXE EDITION
(2CD / 4LP 180g Vinyl / Digital)

CD1 / LP 1&2: Remastered Album      
1         1999
2         Little Red Corvette
3         Delirious
4         Let’s Pretend We’re Married
5         D.M.S.R.
6         Automatic
7         Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
8         Free
9         Lady Cab Driver
10       All The Critics Love U In New York
11       International Lover

CD2 / LP 3&4: Promo mixes & B-Sides         

1         1999 (7″ stereo edit)
2         1999 (7″ mono promo-only edit)
3         Free (promo-only edit)
4         How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore (“1999″ b-side)
5         Little Red Corvette (7″ edit)
6         All The Critics Love U In New York (7” edit)
7         Lady Cab Driver (7″ edit)
8         Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix promo-only edit)
9         Little Red Corvette (Special Dance Mix)
10       Delirious (7” edit)
11       Horny Toad (“Delirious” b-side)
12       Automatic (7″ edit)
13       Automatic (video version)
14       Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ edit)
15       Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ mono promo-only edit)
16       Irresistible Bitch (“Let’s Pretend We’re Married” b-side)
17       Let’s Pretend We’re Married (video version)
18       D.M.S.R. (edit)

REMASTERED ALBUM
(CD / 2LP 180g Purple Vinyl / Digital)

CD1 / LP1&2: Remastered Album
1         1999
2         Little Red Corvette
3         Delirious
4         Let’s Pretend We’re Married
5         D.M.S.R.
6         Automatic
7         Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
8         Free
9         Lady Cab Driver
10       All The Critics Love U In New York
11       International Lover

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sam Roberts, Tanya Tagaq, July Talk, William Prince, Whitehorse, Tom Wilson To Perform Gord Downie’s Secret Path Live In Toronto

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Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sam Roberts, Tanya Tagaq, July Talk, William Prince, Whitehorse, Tom Wilson To Perform Gord Downie’s Secret Path Live In Toronto

On October 19th, Secret Path Live returns to Roy Thomson Hall. Featuring the original Secret Path band, surprise guests, dancers and artists will come together to create a fully immersive and cultural experience that celebrates Indigenous cultures and commemorates the lives of Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack.

The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund is thrilled to announce the stellar, award-winning artists that will perform that evening: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sam Roberts, Tanya Tagaq, July Talk, William Prince, Whitehorse, and Tom Wilson. Tickets are onsale here.

Secret Path Live brings to life the true story of Chanie Wenjack as told in Gord Downie’s JUNO Award-winning album, Secret Path, through the illustrations of Jeff Lemire, and animation of Justin Stephenson. This special show brings awareness to the true history and legacy of Canada’s residential school system.

Artists will be backed by the original Secret Path band that performed with Gord Downie on the same stage three years prior; including Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies), Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Josh Finlayson (Skydiggers), Dave Hamelin (The Stills), and Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think).

Secret Path Live takes place during Secret Path Week (October 17-22); a national movement commemorating the lives of Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack and calling on all Canadians to answer Gord’s call to “Do Something” to forward reconciliation.

“The Secret Path project was incredibly important to Gord. His passion and tenacity to help tell Chanie’s story never wavered and our hope is that it will continue to inspire Canadians to get involved and support this country on the path towards reconciliation for years to come,” says Mike Downie, co-founder and DWF board member. “This night is one small example of what my brother Gord dreamed of for this country – Indigenous and non-Indigenous coming together to create a more complete, inclusive and equitable country.”

This benefit concert supports the programming at the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund. The fund continues the conversation that began with Chanie Wenjack’s residential school story and seeks to aid our collective reconciliation journey by building awareness, education, and connections between all Canadians.

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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.

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