THE BUZZ ARTIST AND INDUSTRY NEWS
• The Dead South “In Good Company” - #16 August 2016 • Zachary Lucky “Everywhere A Man Can Be” - #18 October 2016, #15 November 2016, #15 December 2016, Folk/Roots/Blues
National Loud Top 10 weekly • Black Thunder “III” - #3 Aug 16/16, #2 Aug 30/16, #1 Sept 6/16, #6 Sept 13/16
• Royal Red Brigade “On Crimson Shores” - #4 Nov 22/16 • Soul Mates “Snake Oil” - #7 Oct 11/16, #7 Oct 18/16, #2 Oct 25/16
National Folk/Roots/Blues Top 10 weekly • Bev Zizzy “Standing on a Platform of Kindness” - #4 Aug 16/16 • Eliza Mary Doyle “It Ain’t What It Seems” - #10 Nov 1/16 • Ross Neilsen “Elemental” - #1 Sept 6/16 • The Fretless “Bird’s Nest” - #1 Oct 25/16 • Zachary Lucky “Everywhere A Man Can Be” - #9 Sept 27/16, #7 Oct 4/16, #7 Oct 25/16, #4 Nov 22/16
National International Top 10 weekly • Andino Suns “Madera” - #1 Sept 27/16, #1 Oct 4/16, #3 Oct 11/16, #2 Oct 18/16, #2 Oct 25/16, #3 Nov 1/16, #2 Nov 15/16, #8 Nov 22, #1 Dec 6/16, #6 Dec 13/16
National Top 20 International Chart of 2016 (year-end list) • Andino Suns “Madera” - #9
National Top 200 of 2016 (year end list) #7 Andy Shauf “The Party” #36 Kacy and Clayton “Strange Country” #87 Library Voices “Lovish” #170 The Sheepdogs “Future Nostalgia”
PANDORA PREDICTIONS CHART Artists on the Chart are predicted “most likely” to hit the Billboard 200 chart for the first time within a year, determined by activity across all major social music sites.
The Dead South: #7 for January 20, 2017 – spurred by a huge in- creased in Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, Facebook likes, Pan- dora Artist Station Adds and Track Station Adds, with a viral response to their “In Hell I’ll be Good Company” video.
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FACTOR: Congrats to artists who have received support from The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings in the past 6-ish months. Live Performance (Showcases or Tours): Amy Nelson, Andy Shauf, DGS Samurai Champs, In With The Old, Jeffery Strak- er, Poor Nameless Boy, Rosie & the Riveters, Slow Down Molasses, The Dead South, The Garrys, The Pistolwhips, The Sheepdogs. Art- ist Development: Kacy & Clayton. For more information on FACTOR, visit
www.factor.ca or chat with SaskMusic, their Saskatchewan rep, for application assistance.
DOUG AMELL is a songwriter who markets his music for TV, film and other media uses, as well as for other artists to sing and perform. He was the runner-up in the 2015 International Broadjam 6-Pack/ Steinberg Finals Songwriting Competition and has had 26 charting in the Broadjam Earth Top Ten chart,with eight of them having reached #1 (
www.douglasamell.com).
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SASKATCHEWAN ARTS BOARD recent grant recipients in the Music sector (for more details, visit
www.artsboard.sk.ca): • Independent Artists Grant Approvals, Oct 1/16 deadline: Andrew Bennett, Ian Cameron, Katherine Dowling, Elixir En- semble, Allyson James-Loth, Jen Lane, Mario Lepage, Spencer McKnight, Felipe Andres Gomez Morales, Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra, Ultimate Power Duo (multidisciplinary)
• Culture on the Go: Touring Grants, Oct 19/16 deadline: Ramses Calderon, Horizon String Quartet, Megan Nash & Bears in Hazenmore, Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Tyme Music Society, Regina Symphony Orchestra, Organization of Saskatch- ewan Arts Councils (multidisciplinary).
• Indigenous Pathways Initiative Funding, Oct 15/16 deadline: Roderick Patuanak Apesis, Gordon H. Favel, Chester Knight, Lancelot Knight, Yvonne St. Germaine
• SaskFestivals: project funding, Oct 15/16 deadline: AfroFusion En- tertainment (multidisciplinary), Farm Fest Terre Ferme Festival, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon Contemporary Arts Festival (multidisci- plinary), Prairie New Music Festivals, Regina Blues Association, Regina Highland Festival (multidisciplinary), Regina Jazz Society, Regina Pride (multidisciplinary), Ritornello Chamber Music Festi- val, Saskatoon Blues Society
On February 14-15/2017, DICK MACINNIS releases “Black and Blue”, his first full length album since 2009’s “Everything You’ve Heard About Love,” and the long-awaited second installment in his “Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll” trilogy. It is the quintessential “breakup album” having been written while MacInnis was in the process of divorce, addiction, and subsequent recovery from both. MacInnis will be per- forming the new album in its entirety, as well as many past and unre- leased hits, at the special two night album release show at Bud’s on Broadway, Saskatoon (
https://www.facebook.com/dickmacinnis).
JADIUS has begun recording a new full-length album at Studio One with Jason Plumb, with a first single anticipated to be released in February/March. Jadius is teaming up with JJ Voss for the ”No Gig Too Far Tour” this spring/summer ; the two will be playing solo sets, and will also be doing some duets. The Western leg will be in May and the Eastern leg in June. And, inspirational pop ballad “The View” is current- ly being promoted to European radio (
www.jadius.ca).
With masterful musicianship, energetic rhythms, and a passion for fiddle and pipe tunes, Saskatchewan-based and Nova Scotia-named WEST OF MABOU released their self-titled album at Regina’s Creative City Centre with sold-out nights January 14-15. Since releas- ing their album (produced with support from Creative Saskatchewan), West of Mabou has received international radio play, and positive reviews, including being one of CBC Saskatchewan’s ‘2017 Artists to Watch.’ With each of the members an experienced performer in their own right including festival performances, competitions, pubs and ceilidhs around the world (including the World Pipe Band Champion- ships, Canmore Highland Games, Western Canadian Music Awards, Canada Cup of Curling, and Ford World Men’s Curling Championships) the group combines old and new into an energetic fusion of talent and passion, celtic sounds with modern inflections creating a recipe for dance (
www.westofmabou.ca).
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