When Vineet Miglani and Nidhi Kamboj identified a sustainable means of bringing more live music and art to Gibsons, B.C., they knew it was an opportunity that they couldn’t pass up. Having chosen to forego the rigors of big-city life for a slower pace in the idyllic...
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The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra bridges musical worlds with “Music From the Heart” on June 11, 2022
Musical collaborations that bridge global gaps can inspire artists and audiences alike to listen their way into a more connected world. Thanks to funding from Amplify BC’s Career Development program in 2022, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) is preparing...
Fort Langley Jazz Festival Announces Headliners
In the wake of two years of pandemic-related delays and postponements, the Odlum Brown Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival - a Live Music program funding recipient - is thrilled to announce the headlining acts for its 2022 in-person festival. The roster includes blues...
Headbanging from Stage to Suplex in Armstrong: Live Music program funding enables local metal festival to thrive
In 2009, Jesse Valstar and Bretton Melanson were just two twentysomethings with an idea. 13 years later, they're proudly known as the co-founders of Western Canada’s Armstrong Metal Fest. When Valster returned from a European sojourn that included attendance at...
With support from Amplify BC’s Career Development Program, re:Naissance Opera charts a powerful new course for equity, representation, and relevance
As a field and a medium, opera is facing a systemic reckoning. Concepts like equity, representation, and access are being questioned by producers, artists, and audiences alike. At the heart of this effort lies a fundamental question: In 2022, what stories is opera...
Career Development support enables deep friendship, powerful musicality, and Reconciliation to flourish through The Lake / n’-ha-a-itk
When Heather Pawsey pulled an unpublished and forgotten opera score off of a dusty shelf at the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Music Centre back in 1995, she had no idea that she was setting in motion a chain of events that would ultimately change her life. Nearly...
With support from Amplify BC, Thick as Thieves Entertainment wins back audiences and fosters industry goodwill
Thick as Thieves Entertainment is living proof that, when dovetailed with honesty and transparency, patience and persistence pay off. Originally scheduled for April 4, 2020, their flagship AltiTunes Festival ultimately took place April 2, 2022; the two-year wait...
Amplify BC supports the music industry with $1.5M through Creative BC for Career Development and Record in BC projects
Vancouver, BC (April 13, 2022) - Creative BC proudly announces 121 recipients of Amplify BC grants that will advance the development of local talent across the province’s music and sound recording industry. The $1.5M is being delivered through two programs, with the...
With support from Amplify BC’s Career Development program, OurGlassZoo invites audiences to listen to their way into a more connected world.
When Josias Tschanz and Garrett Woon first crossed paths in Vancouver nearly a decade ago, they were each reeling from some of life’s worst hurdles. Thanks to funding through Amplify BC’s Career Development program, they’ve been able to continually process and...
Investment from Amplify BC’s Music Company Development program enables the Table Tutors DJ Academy to thrive post-pandemic.
For Francis Relly Quilatan and his colleagues at Burnaby’s Table Tutors DJ Academy, the abrupt onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was nothing short of catastrophic. As a music business that brings over 25 years of collective experience to bear in service to its mission –...
Vancouver Filmmakers bring home International Award at SXSW
The music video for Desiree Dawson's Meet You At the Light, directed by Alexander Farah, just won the Grand Jury Winner for Best Music Video at SXSW. This was the only Canadian shortlisted project. The award winning video depicts the relationship between a young woman...
Prestige Guitars creates local jobs, regional impact, and national pride through investment from Amplify BC
Funding Recipient Profile | Amplify BC: Live Music | Prestige Guitars Three of the most popular words over the past two years have been resilience, recovery, and adaptation. Prestige Guitars has taken those words to heart, and is looking to become the third guitar...
Amplify BC’s Career Development support enables the della kit to take flight
Funding Recipient Profile | Amplify BC | Career Development Over her fifteen years as a singer, songwriter, and DJ, Dee Lansdberg has become synonymous with creativity and innovation that inspires and educates in equal measure. Born into a lineage of Italian and...
Amplify BC’s Career Development support enables Adewolf’s stories to inspire globally and galvanize locally
Funding Recipient Profile | Amplify BC | Career Development Since arriving in Vancouver from his hometown of Nigeria in the mid-2010s, Adewolf has forged an artistic path that has been defined by innovation, creativity, and a keen understanding of music’s ability to...
Career Development Funding Recipient Profile: Babylung
Amplify BC's Career Development support enables Babylung to confront old ghosts and chart new directions on the streets of Surrey Growing up in Surrey, BC, in the early 2010s, Babylung was no stranger to the dark side of life. By his early teens, he was known...
Music Company Development Funding Recipient Profile: Wideglide Entertainment
Increasing Capacity and Developing Sustainability: Wideglide Entertainment's Investment in Laketown Ranch In a time of uncertainty and changes for venues and live music presenters, Wideglide Entertainment has invested in the construction of a third stage on...
Vancouver Music Fund Recipient Profile: AHSIA and Sammy Rich
Vancouver Music Fund Demo Recording support enables AHSIA to share a powerful message of inclusion and community via partnership with veteran hip-hop producer Sammy Rich By the age of ten, Aisha McCarnan was quite certain that her best-loved avocation – music –...
Creative BC’s Career Development: Record in BC program enables connection and creativity to flourish on Gabriola Island and in Langford during the pandemic.
Career Development: Record in BC 2020 Recipient Profile | Partner Since 2014, Partner - the guitar-driven indie rock, power pop, and "queercore" effort of vocalist and lead guitarist Josée Caron, and vocalist and rhythm guitarist Lucy Niles - has compelled listeners...
An alternative concept studio in Vancouver, BC | Capsule Studios
Capsule Studios is a primarily women-operated studio based in Vancouver, BC. This studio is an alternate concept studio that was created inside a shipping container that is portable and can travel to new locations around the city or province. The studio offers a wide...
Vancouver-based Turunesh’s ethereal new music video builds bridges to new communities while celebrating the vitality and vibrancy of her own
Career Development: Vancouver Music Fund - Music Video Program Recipient Profile | Turunesh Vancouver-based singer-songwriter and aspiring producer with mixed Tanzanian and Ethiopian heritage, Turunesh advocates powerfully for African artists and art. Turunesh's...