When you create a video starting with “It was just another day,” it better be good. This one thankfully soars off the adorableness and goodwill gesture charts. SoulPancake and Puppy Chow teamed up to share the #PowerofPuppies at a preschool, retirement home, and gym to transform an otherwise ordinary day. Share this video with someone that needs the power of puppies in their lives! For every video view, Puppy Chow will donate one pound of Puppy Chow Natural to Rescue Bank, up to 500,000 pounds or until April 23, 2016.
Meat Loaf Announces 2016 Canadian Tour, But Still Won’t Do THAT
Hot Patootie bless my soul, Meat Loaf really loves that rock’n’roll. Whether he’s on tape, on screen or the performance stage, Meat Loaf’s powerful presence is always felt in grand style. The Grammy Award-winning musical titan exploded onto the scene with the breakout album, Bat Out of Hell. More than 30 years later, it has remained one of the top-selling albums in the world. Celebrated as one of the most extraordinary performers of all-time, Meat Loaf has appeared on Broadway and appeared in numerous films and television shows ranging from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Crazy in Alabama, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, and Fight Club to House, M.D., Masters of Horror, Hallmark’s Citizen Jane, Monk, Celebrity Apprentice, and Glee. The iconic performer continues to take center stage before packed concerts crowds, get rave reviews, and generate international headlines.
Following a hugely-successful run of shows in the US, Grammy-award winning musician and acclaimed film, TV and stage actor Meat Loaf has announced several Canadian tour dates. After kicking off on May 28 at the Rogers K Rock Center in Kingston, Ontario, Meat Loaf will take his high-energy, theatrical rock ‘n’ roll show across the Great White North with stops in Hamilton, London, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Calgary, Edmonton, Cold Lake and Lethbridge, Alberta and Penticton, Victoria and Abbotsford, British Columbia. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 8 at 10am EDT and will be available for purchase at ticketmaster.com.
Tour Dates:
April 06 Waukegan, MI Genesee Theater
April 09 Lawrenceburg IN Hollywood Casino
April 11 Nashville, TN Schermerhorn Symphony Center
April 14 Pompano Beach, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheater
April 16 Tampa, FL Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival
May 20 Northfield, OH Hard Rock Live-Northfield
May 22 Northfield, OH Hard Rock Live-Northfield
May 25 Bethlehem, PA Sands Bethlehem Event Center
May 28 Kingston, ON Rogers K Rock Center
May 30 Hamilton, ON Hamilton Place Theatre
June 1 London, ON Budweiser Gardens
June 4 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
June 6 Ottawa, ON TD Place Arena
June 9 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
June 11 Moose Jaw, SK Mosaic Place
June 13 Calgary, AB Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
June 16 Edmonton, AB Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
June 18 Cold Lake, AB Imperial Oil Place
June 21 Lethbridge, AB ENMAX Centre
June 23 Penticton, BC South Okanagan Events Centre
June 25 Victoria, BC Save On Foods Memorial Centre
June 28 Abbotsford, BC Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre
Winnipeg Folk Festival Launches Stingray Young Performers Program
Now in its 17th year, the Winnipeg Folk Festival is pleased to once again present the Stingray Young Performers Program.
Open to emerging musicians ages 14-24. This training and performance program offers a day of workshops and mentoring with professional musicians hired to perform at this year’s festival. Participants also have the opportunity to perform on stage to the Festival audience.
We hope those who take part will come away inspired to pursue a future in music. It’s also a chance to interact and exchange ideas with young musicians with the same musical interests.
WHO:
Musicians – singer/songwriters, bands, vocalists & instrumentalists aged 14 – 24
WHERE:
At the internationally acclaimed Winnipeg Folk Festival, July 7-10, 2016
WHEN:
Program dates: July 6-8, 2016
WHAT:
An Unforgettable Musical Experience –
A learning and performance workshop, this program starts off with professional development classes and mentoring sessions and finishes at the Winnipeg Folk Festival site where participants will showcase on the Young Performers Stage. Enjoy the experience of a captive audience eager to discover new talent.
Past Mentors have included:
Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas), Grant Davidson (Slow Leaves), Chad VanGaalen, Kim Barlow, Andy White, David Wax, Steve Dawson, Greg Macpherson, Ruth Moody & Heather Masse (Wailin’ Jenny’s), Amelia Curran, Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers), Jill Barber, Kinnie Starr, John K Samson (Weakerthans), John Mann (Spirit of the West), Christine Fellows, Dave Bidini (Rheostatics), Catherine MacLellan, Andrew White (Apostle of Hustle), Jason Collett, Carolyn Mark, Fred Penner and many more.
Information and applications can be found on their website.
ECMA Launches ECMA TV at East Coast Music Week 2016
The talented folks at East Coast Music Association are rightfully and truly excited to launch ECMA TV at Eastlink East Coast Music Week 2016.
ECMA TV is a four-channel web stream where you can watch showcases from ECMW in Sydney. If you can’t make it to this year’s event, be sure to catch today’s best East Coast music on ECMA TV! Tune in from April 13-17, 2016. You can watch on ECMA.com here.
Watch the archived video from the Eastlink ECMW 2016 press conference, announcing 2016 Awards Nominees, initial showcasing artists, and more below.
https://youtu.be/R7IMthpy6o8
That Moment Walt Disney World’s Tinker Bell Gives A Deaf Girl The Surprise Of Her Life
Every family that steps through the magical gates of a Disney Park is unique and special in their own way. Watch the Mansfield family share their story from Magic Kingdom Park.
This car commercial about safety will make your room very dusty
Toyota Japan just made my room a bit dusty. In this ad called Loving Eyes, the double-sided story is captured from two different points of view will make your room possibly dusty, and filled with onions, too.
Is this greatest short film of all time? Could be.
Hedgehog in the Fog is a 1975 Soviet/Russian animated film directed by Yuriy Norshteyn, produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.
This is a story about a little hedgehog (voiced by Mariya Vinogradova), who is on his way to visit his friend the bear cub. As explained in the introductory narration, the two would meet every evening to drink tea from the cub’s samovar, which was heated on a fire of juniper twigs. As they drank their tea, the hedgehog and the bear would chat and count the stars together.
On this day, the hedgehog decides to bring the bear cub some raspberry jam. As Hedgehog heads out, a sinister looking eagle-owl is following him. Hedgehog passes through the woods and encounters a beautiful white horse standing in a fog. He is curious as to whether the horse would drown if it went to sleep in the fog. The hedgehog decides to explore the fog for himself…
https://youtu.be/oW0jvJC2rvM
The fog effects were created by putting a very thin piece of paper on top of the scene and slowly lifting it up toward the camera frame-by-frame until everything behind it became blurry and white.
Watch the world’s first cat video from 1894
This film, featuring two cats wearing boxing gloves and packing a punch, was filmed in Thomas Edison’s studio in 1894. I’m not sure who won, but it must have happened on a Caturday.
https://youtu.be/cdkAvh5ndrk
This Musical Highway Will Play A Song For You
Road contractors engineered an ingenious and melodic way to encourage drivers to obey the speed limit.
He Earned It: The Weeknd Reaps an Impressive Five Wins at The 2016 JUNO Awards
It was a victorious weekend for The Weeknd, who earned an outstanding total of five JUNO Awards during Canada’s 45th annual music awards in Calgary. The alternative R&B sensation scooped up two statuettes for Single of the Year and Album of the Year* during CTV’s live broadcast of THE 2016 JUNO AWARDS, Sunday, April 3 at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Having already won three awards for Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year* and R&B/Soul Recording of the Year during Saturday night’s JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards, he took home the most wins of any artist, as well as the most nominations, making him the JUNO juggernaut of 2016.
The Weeknd’s five JUNO Awards top off an exceptional year for the artist. The multiplatinum-selling artist also graced the broadcast stage on Sunday to perform a mesmerizing two-song medley of never-seen-before tracks “Aquainted” and “Might Not”, with surprise guest Belly.
Also during the broadcast, Alessia Cara was named Breakthrough Artist of the Year following major international success with her hit songs “Here” and “Wild Things”, which she performed to open the live show and mark her JUNO stage debut. Ontario’s multitalented five-piece band Walk Off The Earth was awarded Group of the Year.
Saturday night’s double-winner (Aboriginal Album of the Year, Contemporary Roots Album of the Year) Buffy Sainte-Marie took part in the broadcast with a unique spoken word performance, Breakthrough Group of the Year winners Dear Rouge performed “I Heard I Had”, and Whitehorse, winners of the Adult Alternative Album of the Year, delighted fans with their song “Tame as the Wild Ones”.
After snagging a big win for Country Album of the Year for his record Gypsy Road, Dean Brody also graced the stage with a special performance of “Bring Down the House”.
The JUNO Fan Choice Award went to Justin Bieber with just over six million votes cast.
Emilie-Claire Barlow won her 2nd JUNO Award in the Jazz Album of the Year, Vocal, this time for her Clear Day release.
One of the most celebrated artists in Canadian history, Burton Cummings was welcomed into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and honoured with a special closing tribute performance which featured eight-time JUNO Award winner and co-host Jann Arden, performer Shawn Hook, internationally recognized JUNO Award winning vocal group The Tenors, and classic rock tribute band – and long-time Burton Cummings backing band – The Carpet Frogs. Cummings himself also took part in the special performance.