Your Music Matters

So at this current moment I’m not going to write a paragraph to tell you about me. Instead let’s talk about us. We’re all going through something right now: disruption, loss, isolation, grief. So after a week of watching way too much news in my pjs I decided that I should get to work and write a song. I wanted to both soothe and name the sorrow of the situation that we find ourselves in, here in the lockdown of April 2020. When it was done the song arrived with a title that gave me a clear vision of how to move forward. I decided to organize a collaboration of musicians who could lend their parts to the project while maintaining social distancing. We made a video with five different live performances, each given to an empty room—all of us alone, and yet together. This is “Alone Together” My website: www.joannadrummondmusic.ca For the bio let’s keep it short and sweet: Joanna Drummond is a folk singer-songwriter from Calgary Alberta. She’s released two CDs and wa

Music Entrepreneur HQ founder David Andrew Wiebe has been hard at work on his latest book, The Music Entrepreneur Code: How to Get Paid for Your Passion and Impact More Fans Without Wasting Years of Your Life and Thousands of Dollars . The official release date of the book is May 15, 2020 when paperback copies are also expected to become available. Here’s the book description: Most musicians go it alone and quickly get overwhelmed, fed up and after a long, hard road, finally call it quits – bitter, angry and defeated. Instead of winging it and hoping for the best, you can follow a proven roadmap created by a fellow musician who overcame setbacks and successfully followed that path to creative freedom. In The Music Entrepreneur Code, you will discover revealing personal stories, insights and action steps, and most importantly, the sense of satisfaction that comes from committing to, and realizing your personal vision of success. From the bestselling self-published author of

Music Entrepreneur HQ went live with their latest episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, featuring a conversation between founder David Andrew Wiebe and composer/sound designer Dave Chick. In this two part conversation, they touch on taking a circuitous route in one’s career, the realities and challenges of making it as a musician in 2020, building connections with clients, project management, the project cycle (which almost always comes with a significant breakdown in one's life) and more. Whether you’re a budding composer-sound designer or musician trying to make it in today’s market, this conversation between ex co-hosts of Inside Home Recording is engaging, entertaining and inspiring. Find the episodes here: Part 1 Part 2 Support Your Music Matters:

Alberta funk?  Yup… Some of Canada’s funkiest - Calgary’s   Souls in Rhythm has independently toured much of the nation and has opened for several prominent artists such as American hip-hop icon  Common , and R&B super-group  Boyz II Men .  SiR has won many accolades for their songwriting and live performances. Having spent the last two years writing and recording (including a songwriting residency at Banff Centre), SiR is excited to have a wealth of new material. They’ve begun launching a series of singles that will continue with several releases through 2020!  Founded by Scott Henderson (The EarthTONES - 5 top-20 hits, 2 Juno nominations, toured the world etc)  Souls in Rhythm also includes platinum selling producer Spencer Cheyne on drums, ferocious slap-funk bassist Caleb Roddick, and virtuosic guitarist Vincent Bundick. Scott even spent time recording at Prince’s Paisley Park Studios, back in the day.   Souls in Rhythm  takes the fundamentals of funk and so

Your Music Matters is all about helping you have breakthroughs in your music career. Generally, this doesn’t happen without some important realizations – usually, about yourself. This explains why we regularly connect you with new tools and resources. If you’re able to see yourself in them, and find the key that unlocks the door, you’ll be moving on and up. If you do it in rapid succession, you’d be unstoppable. In saying that, there’s more we can do to help. And, one of the things we’ve decided to do is feature your music on our blog. And, here’s the kicker. We want you to be in full control. Usually, if you send your music to a review blog, if you’re lucky, they’ll write up a quick sentence or two about your music and leave it for dead. Hopefully, something quotable, so it’s worth all the time and effort you’ve put into outreach. Here, we’re turning this idea on its head. We want you to send us a paragraph or two about your music, which we will post to our blog (you’re loo