Find out what the pros know about earning money as a songwriter and composer. Tim Hardy, SOCAN’s Member & Industry Relations Executive for Atlantic Canada, will be on hand to discuss the following topics: How to join SOCAN if you’re not already a member How SOCAN collects you money (radio, TV, film, live performances, Internet) [...]

Molson Canadian Nova Scotia Music Week is featuring new buyers to the list of delegates at this year’s festival and conference in Yarmouth November 5 – 8.

“First day in August Last rain was in May When the rainmaker came to Kansas In the middle of a dusty day The rainmaker said to the people Tell me what you are prepared to pay” The rainmaker said to the people “Well, I’ll conjure up a rain today” Harry Nilsson, Bill Martin: Summer, 1969 [...]

Music never began in bars but liquor establishments became the showcase for bands in the 1970′s through the 1990′s.  Before this time the mighty juke box and the the pool table ruled the roost. During the 30+ years when live bands plied their trade in the bars bar managers became promoters as bars grew bigger [...]