Vote now for SOCAN’s fifth annual ECHO Songwriting Prize SOCAN has launched the fifth annual ECHO Songwriting Prize, designed to identify what’s next and what’s best in current Canadian independent music. This prize will honour some of the most innovative and artistic songs created in the past year by emerging songwriters in Canada. The writer(s) [...]
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Recent Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala
Last weekend, singer Phil Collins received the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala. The singer, who has sold over 100 million records as a solo artist and with the band Genesis, said writing a popular track is "a complete accident". This year’s inducted songwriters included Leonard Cohen, Jackie DeShannon, David [...]
Rush As Songwriters – Jacob Moon Tribute
Well Rush was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on Saturday, March 28, 2010. From an article in Monday’s Toronto Sun, Neil Peart discusses the song Subdivisions: “It’s a very unusual song construction lyrically and musically that we managed to make work,” [Peart] said. “It was written at a time when we weren’t [...]
Phil Collins To Receive Johnny Mercer Award
Phil Collins will receive the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award at the annual Songwriters Hall of Fame induction dinner on June 17 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York. "Phil has churned out a massive stream of classic songs that have resonated with audiences around the globe in a career that has won him admiration [...]
Canadian Music Week: Songwriting Summit
Canadian Music Week ended last weekend with Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart talking about songwriting. Stewart, appeared on Saturday, March 13 with Toronto singer Cindy Gomez to talk about songwriting. Stewart told the audience that the split in his romantic relationship with singer Annie Lennox led to a majority of the band’s best-known songs. Broken hearts [...]
Rush to be admitted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
Rush via last.fm Ultimate rock band, Rush, will be inducted along with several of their songs into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010. Rush’s Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart have been playing to fans for more than three decades, with songs such as Limelight, Closer to the Heart, The [...]
Gordon and Gord – Easter Day Broadcast
Earlier this month in Toronto, a master class in songwriting was offered up by two of the greatest Gords in Canada – folk icon Gordon Lightfoot and Tragically Hip rocker Gord Downie in the inaugural concert of a new six-part series, If You Could Read My Mind, named for Lightfoot’s 1970 breakthrough song. Sponsored by [...]
Bruce Springsteen – Prolific
Billboard has uploaded their new cover story with Bruce Springsteen, who just wrapped up another epic tour behind his latest album, Working On A Dream. In it, Springsteen discusses the ritual of taking requests from the audience, his decision to play full albums from Born To Run to The E Street Shuffle, and the longevity [...]
McCartney wins Gershwin songwriter prize
Paul McCartney will be honoured with a fledgling but prestigious musical honour, after being named Monday as the latest recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The U.S. Library of Congress, which administers the honour, announced the 67-year-old British musician and former Beatle as its third winner of the songwriting prize on Monday. "It [...]
Songwriters Hall of Fame Announces 2010 Nominations
The nominations for the 2010 Songwriters Hall of Fame (SongHall) induction ceremony have been announced, with ballots in the mail to the SongHall voting membership. Songwriter nominees are in two categories—Non-Performing and Performing. The nominees in the Non-Performing Songwriter category–with two representative song credits—are: Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart–The Monkees’ hits “Last Train To Clarksville” [...]
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