The Wedding Band is not just your typical cover band. Actually maybe they are…But the band members are certainly not typical. Cosmo Music in Richmond Hill, Ontatio are going to host the duo, along with Whitfield Crane, and Joey Castillo for a special event. This unlikely bunch is coming to play all your favourite classic covers from bands like AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Billy Idol, and more on Friday, July 26. This is going to be an event you’ll never forget – don’t miss out, and get your tickets here.
LyricFind Receives Government of Canada Funding to Promote and Export Canadian Content via Lyrics and Lyric Translations
Translations matter, and just as lyrics boost engagement, translated lyrics boost engagement across language barriers.
Toronto-based lyric licensing pioneers, LyricFind, have received funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage Creative Export Canada program to focus on and globalize Canadian content, using the power of lyrics and translation. The two-year project supports the licensing, transcription and translation of Canadian artists and songwriters’ lyrics, and monetizes their lyrics through LyricFind’s extensive roster of clients.
LyricFind will also power lyric translation display at live events globally and translate popular lyrics by Canadian artists like Drake and Carly Rae Jepsen into widely spoken world languages. The grant also allows for the translation of the most important Indigenous language songs into English and French, and reciprocates by translating top Canadian song lyrics into Indigenous languages, all with the help of First Nations music and language consultants. Lyric translations promise to spark additional engagement with songs in languages like Inuktitut, Cree, and Anishinaabemowin, as well as support interest in lesser-spoken Indigenous languages like Maliseet.
All told, this program will enable LyricFind’s biggest Canadian-focused content and translation distribution effort to date. “We created the first real global licensing ecosystem for lyrics, but we feel we have yet to bring the full linguistic breadth and artistic range of our home country to the wider world. Thanks to this project, we’re aiming to expand our catalog of Canadian content by a factor of ten,” Darryl Ballantyne, Founder and CEO of LyricFind notes. “We’re excited to start sharing translated Canadian content around the globe.”
One of the most innovative aspects of the project is its use of human translation, which offers a more accurate and nuanced take on song meanings. “Automated translation works well in particular instances and with common language pairs, like Spanish to English, but in most cases, it fails to capture the complexity and subtlety of song lyrics in translation,” reflects Robert Singerman, SVP, International Publishing at LyricFind, who has dedicated the last 15 years of his career to giving music subtitles.
“It’s like we’ve been watching a stunning foreign film without subtitles all this time,” Singerman muses. “Now we get to move deeper into music, whether it’s being played live or heard digitally in languages we don’t know. It’s what the troubadours and all songwriters and artists who followed intended; communication with the audience.”
Paul Brandt’s #NotInMyCity Receives Canadian Country Music Association’s Slaight Music Humanitarian Award
The Canadian Country Music Association Board of Directors is honoured to present the 2019 Slaight Music Humanitarian Award to Paul Brandt for the leaps and bounds he has made in raising awareness and taking action to end child sexual exploitation and sex trafficking in Canada with his #NotInMyCity movement. Given out annually, the Slaight Music Humanitarian Award celebrates a person or organization who has made an outstanding contribution of time and energy in support of humanitarian causes.
“Not only is Paul Brandt one of the greatest entertainers in our format and our country, he is an extraordinary humanitarian. Using his platform, he has become a strong voice for those affected by the horrible crimes of child sexual exploitation and sex trafficking in Canada and we are in awe of the change he is creating,” said Tracy Martin, CCMA President. “The CCMA is honoured to recognize #NotInMyCity and Paul’s remarkable efforts to bring attention to this urgent issue in our country.”
Founded by Brandt in July 2017, #NotInMyCity serves to educate the public about the realities of human trafficking while also uniting Canadians in the fight to protect some of our most vulnerable citizens. Brandt and collaborative stakeholders recognized that many Canadians were unaware of the staggering facts surrounding trafficking. For example, 93% of Canada’s trafficking victims come from Canada and more than 75% of people working in the Canadian sex trade began working as a child. More than a quarter of victims are under the age of 18 and, despite being only four per cent of Canada’s population, Indigenous Canadians represent half of all human trafficking victims. Today, #NotInMyCity is a strong, collaborative organization, working with established agencies and groups to raise awareness and take action to combat human trafficking.
“Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in Canada today,” said Brandt. “On behalf of the millions of human trafficking victims in the world, I am moved to be receiving the Slaight Music Humanitarian Award recognizing the #NotInMyCity movement. Our Allies have courageously stepped up and chosen to be on the right side of history. We must end the sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of children for profit occurring in Canada and around the world.”
Partners and supporters of #NotInMyCity include a growing list of visionary businesses and organizations along with First Nations groups, representatives from Ministries within the Provincial Government, the City of Calgary and City of Edmonton as well as sectors of Police, Justice, Health, Children’s Services, Education and not-for-profit community agencies. The Calgary International Airport and Edmonton International Airport have also partnered with #NotInMyCity to help stop trafficking.
“My father Allan and the Slaight family believe strongly in helping the communities we live in and supporting grassroots initiatives that raise awareness of deserving issues,” says Slaight Communications CEO, Gary Slaight. “I congratulate Paul Brandt on both his #NotinMyCity initiative and his Buckspring Foundation that have helped to better lives. There’s no question that Paul is richly deserving of the honour that comes with receiving the Slaight Music Humanitarian Award.”
This CCMA Award of Achievement is named the Slaight Music Humanitarian Award in recognition of the generous donation made by the Slaight Music Foundation. The 2019 Slaight Music Humanitarian Award will be presented to Paul Brandt during a private industry event as part of Country Music Week 2019, taking place September 5-8 in Calgary, Alberta. For further details on the Slaight Music Humanitarian Award and other CCMA Awards of Achievement click here.
To learn more about #NotInMyCity visit notinmycity.ca.
The Floppotron Is Back – This Time With A Cover Of Gary Numan’s “Cars”
SPaweł Zadrożniak’s Floppotron hasn’t forgotten where it came from, this time with a version of the synth-heavy, robotic sounds of Gary Numan’s 1979 hit Cars.
Photo Gallery: Lionel Richie at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Elvis Presley Gets Two New Releases To Celebrate 1969
A pair of Elvis Presley box sets are on their way celebrating the 50th anniversary of the music he made in Las Vegas and Memphis in 1969. Live 1969 and American Sound 1969 are due out Aug. 9 and Aug. 23, respectively.
First chronicled in part on the album Elvis In Person At The International Hotel 50 years ago, Live 1969 showcases this incredibly, important phase in Elvis’ career in definitive detail – his first live shows following his triumphant, 1968 comeback for NBC after an 8 year absence from playing live. This box set features 11 complete sets from the first of his many engagements at The International Hotel (several of which are released in full for the first time, with one show entirely unreleased), allowing fans a more definitive picture of The King’s glorious return to the concert stage. In addition to a 52-page book which includes rare photos, memorabilia and an oral history by Ken Sharp curated from historic interviews with Elvis, Colonel Tom Parker, Tom Jones, Jerry Schilling, James Burton, Cissy Houston, Terry Blackwood, George Klein, Fats Domino and more.
Also, being released August 9, 2019 is the Graceland exclusive colored vinyl Elvis Presley: Live At The International Hotel, Las Vegas NV-August 26, 1969 Vinyl LP Set. “I was missing the contact with a live audience,” Elvis says in this show, and at every show during his first engagement at The International Hotel in Las Vegas. Apart from two shows in 1961 and the recent TV show, Elvis hadn’t performed on stage for 11 years. After years of increasingly worse movies and diminishing record sales, Elvis had just managed to turn his career around with his 1968 TV special. The show had aired on December 3, 1968, and it was a surprising reminder to the world of just how magnetic a performer Elvis Presley still was. Just weeks later Elvis recorded more than 30 songs in Memphis, some of the best work of his career, and the return to live performances on July 31, 1969 was the third step of his resurrection as an artist.
You can check them out here.
American Sound 1969, meanwhile, will comprise 90 tracks of rare and unreleased material that Elvis recorded during the American Studio sessions that produced his acclaimed record, From Elvis in Memphis. That set is available to pre-order and will only be available digitally.
Live 1969 Track List
Disc 1 – August 21, 1969, Midnight show
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”*
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”
04) “Love Me Tender”
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”
07) “Hound Dog”
08) “Memories”
09) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
10) Monologue*
11) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
12) “Runaway”
13) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
14) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
15) Introductions, including “Happy Birthday” sung to James Burton
16) “In The Ghetto (Scott “Mac” Davis)
17) “Suspicious Minds”
18) “What’d I Say”
19) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Disc 2 — August 22, 1969, Dinner show
1) “Blue Suede Shoes”
2) “I Got A Woman”
3) “All Shook Up”
4) “Love Me Tender”
5) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
6) “Heartbreak Hotel”
7) “Hound Dog”
8) “Memories”
9) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
10) Monologue
11) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
12) “Runaway”
13) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
14) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
15) Introductions
16) “In The Ghetto”
17) “Suspicious Minds”
18) “What’d I Say”
19) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Disc 3 — August 22, 1969, Midnight show
1) “Blue Suede Shoes”*
2) “I Got A Woman” *
3) “All Shook Up” *
4) “Love Me Tender”
5) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
6) “Heartbreak Hotel”*
7) “Hound Dog”*
8) “Memories” *
9) “My Babe”
10) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
11) Monologue*
12) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
13) “Funny How Time Slips Away”
14) “Runaway”
15) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”*
16) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”*
17) Introductions*
18) “In The Ghetto”*
19) “Suspicious Minds”*
20) “What’d I Say”
21) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”*
Disc 4 — August 23, 1969, Dinner show
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”
04) “Love Me Tender”
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”
07) “Hound Dog”
08) “Memories”
09) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
10) Monologue
11) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
12) “Runaway”
13) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
14) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
15) Introductions
16) “In The Ghetto”
17) “Suspicious Minds”
18) “What’d I Say”
19) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Disc 5 — August 23, 1969, Midnight show
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”
04) “Love Me Tender”
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”
07) “Hound Dog”
08) “Memories”
09) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
10) Monologue
11) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
12) “Runaway”
13) “Reconsider Baby”
14) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
15) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
16) Introductions
17) “In The Ghetto”
18) “Suspicious Minds”
19) “What’d I Say”
20) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Disc 6 — August 24, 1969, Dinner show
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”
04) “Love Me Tender”
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”
07) “Hound Dog”
08) “I Can’t Stop Loving You”
09) “Johnny B. Goode”
10) Monologue
11) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
12) “Runaway”
13) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
14 “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
15) Introductions
16) “In The Ghetto”
17) “Suspicious Minds”)
18) “What’d I Say”
19) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Disc 7 — August 24, 1969, Midnight show (Complete show previously unreleased)
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”
04) “Love Me Tender”
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”
07) “Hound Dog”
08) “I Can’t Stop Loving You”*
09) “Johnny B. Goode”
10) Monologue*
11) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
12) “Runaway”*
13) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
14) “Words (Robin, Barry & Maurice Gibb)
15) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
16) Introductions*
17) “In The Ghetto”
18) “Suspicious Minds”
19) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Disc 8 — August 25, 1969, Dinner show (Complete show previously unreleased)
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”*
04) “Love Me Tender”*
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”*
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”*
07) “Hound Dog”*
08) “Memories”
09) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”*
10) Monologue*
11) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”*
12) “Funny How Time Slips Away”
13) “Runaway”
14) “Words”
15) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
16) Introductions*
17) “In The Ghetto”
18) “Suspicious Minds”*
19) “What’d I Say”*
20) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”*
Disc 9 — August 25, Midnight show
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”
04) “Love Me Tender”
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”
07) “Hound Dog”
08) “I Can’t Stop Loving You”
09) “My Babe”
10) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
11) Monologue
12) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
13) “Runaway”
14) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
15) “Words”
16) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
17) Introductions
18) “In The Ghetto”
19) “Suspicious Minds”
20) “What’d I Say”
21) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Disc 10 — August 26, 1969, Dinner show
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”
04) “Love Me Tender”
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”
07) “Hound Dog”
08) “Memories”
09) “My Babe”
10) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
11) Monologue
12) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
13) “Runaway”
14) “Inherit The Wind”
15) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
16) Introductions
17) “In The Ghetto”
18) “Suspicious Minds”)
19) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Disc 11 — August 26, 1969, Midnight show
01) “Blue Suede Shoes”
02) “I Got A Woman”
03) “All Shook Up”
04) “Love Me Tender”
05) “Jailhouse Rock/Don’t Be Cruel”
06) “Heartbreak Hotel”
07) “Hound Dog”
08) “I Can’t Stop Loving You”
09) “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
10) Monologue
11) “Baby, What You Want Me To Do”
12) “Runaway”
13) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” (Laughing version)
14) “Rubberneckin’”
15) “Yesterday/Hey Jude”
16) Introductions
17) “In The Ghetto”
18) “This Is The Story”
19) “Suspicious Minds”
20) “Can’t Help Falling In Love”
*Previously unreleased
The Velvet Underground’s ‘The Complete Matrix Tapes’ Gets Vinyl Box Set Release
The Velvet Underground toured extensively in 1969, but set up shop in San Francisco in November and early December for a series of 18 nights over four separate engagements, the first at the Family Dog, the rest at the fabled North Beach club the Matrix, opened in a one-time pizza parlor by Jefferson Airplane’s Marty Balin in 1965. Over the course of their residency, which began November 11th, the club’s four-track recorder, manned by owner Peter Abram from a booth at the side of the stage, was rolling through much of it captures the highlights of two nights – November 26, the day Richard Nixon authorized a bill to create a draft lottery, and November 27, Thanksgiving – as detailed in Rolling Stone editor David Fricke’s liner notes in the box set booklet.
Originally release as a CD box set, The Velvet Underground – The Complete Matrix Tapes makes its vinyl debut as a limited edition, eight-LP, 43-track box set and will be available worldwide on July 12 and exclusively available in the U.S. through shop.velvetundergroundmusic.com.
These shows, taped several months after the release of the third, self-titled Velvet Underground album earlier that year, and before heading to the studio to record Loaded the following spring, featured the post-John Cale incarnation of the band, with newest member Doug Yule on bass and keyboards joining Lou Reed and remaining members guitarist Sterling Morrison and percussionist Maureen Tucker. Some versions of these performances, taken from soundboard mixes, were first issued in 1974 by Mercury Records as part of a double LP, 1969 The Velvet Underground Live , while other audience recorded versions released were taken from cassette tapes made by the late Bob Quine, a huge fan and, at the time, a St. Louis law student who later went on to play guitar for both Richard Hell and Reed. Quine was at a number of the shows during their stint at the club, and his cache eventually was released in 2001 as The Quine Tapes.
The Velvet Underground – The Complete Matrix Tapes features 43 recordings that have been mixed down directly from the original in-house multi-tracks, including the 18 tracks featured on a Super Deluxe Edition of the Velvets’ third album and nine previously unreleased performances marking the first time all the available tapes will be released commercially. As can be heard, the shows were intimate, and features early versions of yet-to-be-recorded songs like “Sweet Jane,” “New Age” and “Rock & Roll.” Set One includes previously unreleased versions of “Some Kinda Love” and “Sweet Jane,” while Set Two’s rarities include performances of “There She Goes Again,” “After Hours” and “We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together.” Set Three’s highlight is the almost 40-minute-long “Sister Ray,” previously heard on the Super Deluxe Edition of Velvet Underground. Rare live takes of “Venus in Furs” (one on Set One, the other Set Two) and Set One’s “The Black Angel’s Death Song” (according to Fricke’s liner notes, the first time Yule had ever played the song) are also notable for their inclusion here.
Concludes Fricke about The Velvet Underground – The Complete Matrix Tapes: “On one hand, [it] is just two nights, in one room, in the life of a working band. It also has everything they aspired to and achieved on stage, every night, everywhere: the magnificent aggression and determined joy; the fictions shot through with truth; the lasting bonds established in almost total, commercial blackout. You can easily walk into the music and never want to leave – a perfect definition of both a great rock & roll gig and a history that keeps on giving.”
Track Listing:
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – THE COMPLETE MATRIX TAPES LP BOX
LP ONE
Side 1
I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 1)
What Goes On (Version 1)
Side 2
Some Kinda Love (Version 1)
Heroin (Version 1)
LP TWO
Side 1
The Black Angel’s Death Song
Venus In Furs (Version 1)
There She Goes Again (Version 1)
We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 1)
Over You (Version 1)
Side 2
Sweet Jane (Version 1)
Pale Blue Eyes
After Hours (Version 1)
LP THREE
Side 1
I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 2)
Venus In Furs (Version 2)
Some Kinda Love (Version 2)
Over You (Version 2)
Side 2
I Can’t Stand It (Version 1)
There She Goes Again (Version 2)
After Hours (Version 2)
LP FOUR
Side 1
We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 2)
Sweet Bonnie Brown (It’s Just Too Much)
Heroin (Version 2)
Side 2
White Light/White Heat (Version 1)
I’m Set Free
LP FIVE
Side 1
We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 3)
Some Kinda Love (Version 3)
There She Goes Again (Version 3)
Side 2
Heroin (Version 3)
Ocean
LP SIX
Side 1
Sister Ray Part 1
Side 2
Sister Ray Part 2
LP SEVEN
Side 1
I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 3)
What Goes On (Version 2)
Some Kinda Love (Version 4)
Side 2
We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 4)
Beginning To See The Light
Lisa Says
New Age
LP EIGHT
Side 1
Rock & Roll
I Can’t Stand It Anymore (Version 2)
Side 2
Heroin (Version 4)
White Light/White Heat (Version 2)
Sweet Jane (Version 2)
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First time $300,000 Vancouver Music Fund to elevate Indigenous and underrepresented voices
A first for the City: dedicated music funding aimed at boosting growth in the music sector, while reflecting Vancouver’s commitment to equity, diversity, and Reconciliation, and in alignment with the early findings of the Vancouver Music Strategy.
The City of Vancouver and Creative BC are proud to partner on three new music grant programs to support Indigenous and underrepresented artists and organizations within the City of Vancouver and the unceded traditional homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. These programs will be funded by the City’s $300,000 Vancouver Music Fund, approved by Council in January PDF file (119 KB), and administered by Creative BC. In addition to these programs, Creative BC will leverage their existing music support programs for overall investment in Vancouver artists, programs, and initiatives.
Eligibility
The City of Vancouver funding for the one-time Creative BC programs will support new and emerging artists and industry professionals who experience systemic barriers to funding. Eligible groups may include those who identify as: Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and other Indigenous peoples; people of colour; people who live with disabilities; minority language speakers, cultural communities, and refugees; and, Trans, gender diverse, Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people.
“Vancouver’s remarkable music scene contributes to the city’s vibrancy and livability, and plays an important role in the economy of Vancouver’s creative sector,” said Sandra Singh, General Manager of Arts, Culture and Community Services for the City of Vancouver and Chair of the Music Steering Committee.
Three grant streams
The City’s Vancouver Music Fund includes three grant streams in partnership with Creative BC:
- Demo Program: Supporting new and emerging artists from underrepresented groups to create demo recordings and engage in mentorship and skill development with a BC producer.
- Music Video Program: Supporting the creation of music videos for new and emerging artists from underrepresented groups to build audiences.
- Industry Catalyst Program: Supporting projects that develop Vancouver’s music ecosystem and build the capacity of underrepresented groups. Individuals and collectives can apply, in addition to companies and organizations.
Applications for these programs open June 13. Applicants may apply to Creative BC for a grant of up to 100% of budgeted eligible expenditures, removing the usual requirement for matching funding, a barrier for many underrepresented groups. The deadline for applications for all three programs is July 24, 2019.
Apply here!
City of Ottawa Announces Ottawa Music Development Fund
On June 26, Ottawa’s City Council approved a $25,000 Ottawa Music Development Fund. The fund, which will be launched this summer, will provide “support for the creation and expansion of projects that strengthen the music industry and ecosystem.”
The money is part of a three-year, $300,000 “music strategy” endorsed by city council last year. The plan is designed to cut red tape and fund advocacy groups in an effort to better promote local artists and the businesses that cater to them.
Council also agreed to provide $10,000 in funding to create an Ottawa-Gatineau Music Awards and Hall of Fame, with winners expected to be announced in December. The awards will be organized by Canadian Live Music Association member Ottawa Music Industry Coalition.
CBC/Radio-Canada Is At The Heart Of Canada Day 2019 Celebrations With Live National Broadcasts On July 1
CBC/Radio-Canada is bringing the nation together for a day of celebrations this Canada Day, with news coverage and entertainment programming on CBC, ICI RADIO-CANADA TÉLÉ, ICI ARTV, CBC News Network, ICI RDI, CBC Radio One, ICI RADIO-CANADA PREMIÈRE, CBC Music, ICI MUSIQUE, Radio-Canada.ca and the CBC Gem and ICI TOU.TV streaming services.
CBC News Special Presentation: Canada Day 2019
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST
This three-hour CBC News special will be hosted by The National‘s Rosemary Barton and Andrew Chang. Reporters from across the country will join Barton and Chang to provide updates on Canada Day celebrations across various communities.
Viewers outside of Canada can watch this on CBC News’ Facebook and YouTube pages.
CBC Music Festival Special
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. EST
Relive the largest, all-Canadian music festival from Toronto’s RBC Echo Beach. This year’s special includes performances and interviews from Alvvays, Stars, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Peach Pit and DJ NDN.
Canada Day in the Capital
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. EST
This special live event from Ottawa features fireworks and performances by Brett Kissel, Coeur de Pirate, Crystal Shawanda, Karim Ouellet, K’Naan, Marie Mai, The Strumbellas and William Prince.
Canadians living outside of Canada, fear not. You can watch the celebrations, too! CBC’s YouTubechannel will be streaming the broadcast starting at 8 p.m. EST.