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It?s a good time for Rock ?n? Roll. Many friends of IndieCan are pitching their
indie music tents for you to seek cultural shelter under - if you have the good
fortune of being in Toronto this week. Eden Ants (Episode 60) host another POP
with Brains Friday November 23rd. Tin Bangs are at the Bovine Sex Club on the
25th and Chameleonize are there two days later. If you can?t be in Toronto
this week we will miss you. Where ever you live let?s get out and support some
indie artist this week, just because. <br /><br />
For all of you USA and international friends of ours, this weekend is also Grey
Cup Weekend in Toronto. We are the host-city of the Canadian Football Leagues
grand finale. Yes, Canada has football. It?s for male athletes that can?t
skate, but it is an entertaining game indeed and our Grey Cup party on Sunday
will have the Bare Naked Ladies performing as part of the tail-gate party and
Lenny Kravitz indoors for half-time.<br /><br />
I guess I have Toronto on the mind and while I am milking that topic, you should
know that Canadian Music Week is March 5th to 8th this year and it?s everyone?s
good fortune that deadlines have been extended for artist showcases and the
2008 Indie?s Awards. Second chances don?t come often, so if you haven?t
applied, do it now and let us know how it goes. We hope to see you in T.Dot in
March.<br /><br />
Speaking of the Indie?s Awards, by coincidence, Episode 63 concludes a trilogy
of Canadian Music Week winners. We had Radio Star finalist, Joshua Bartholomew
last week, Canadian Radio Star winner Drowning Girl two weeks ago. This week
it?s 2007 Indie Award winner Ember Swift opening our show, live at IndieCan.
Ember won for best artist?s web site, so check out the link we have at <a
target="_blank" href="http://www.indiecan.com">http://www.indiecan.com</a> and
enjoy the look and feel of it. It?s kind of a ?take the vegans bowling, take
them bowling? theme?very unusual. Ember Swift?s 9th CD, ?Dirty Little Pulse?
is one of those recordings that I don?t mind going around and around in my car
CD player and the 180,000km on my 5 year old car tell you I like to spend some
time in my vehicle. What?s scary is how many other miles I have put in other
cars and airplanes in the last 5 years too. Ember Swift compositions are
something I would tell my parents to listen to. Her career is one I would tell
the newest, youngest emerging artist to learn as much as they can from. <br
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Ember is presently in China, embarking on a musical journey that she will talk
about in this weeks show. Is China important to the future of music? While
many of you were reading Canadian Musician and Rolling Stone Magazine, I have
been reading Seymour Schulich?s new book ?Get Smarter.? Here are some facts
about China for you to ponder as you contemplate the future of music:<br /><br
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China already has more people that speak English than there are English speaking
people in the U.S.A. They also have more people using computers that there are
people in the U.S.A.<br /><br />
300 Million people will move from the country to the city in the next 5 years,
creating a city of Philadelphia size every month.<br /><br />
China has 240 Million people under the age of 14. In the next 10 years these
children will be significant consumers of live concerts and recorded music.<br
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If you?re thinking of translating a song of yours, think about Mandarin.<br
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Also this week, we take you behind the scenes of COCA (Canadian Organization of
College Activities) as we visit Windsor for Border City Rocks ? the regional
COCA Conference November 1st to 3rd. We?ll speak to host Megan Carbone from
the University of Windsor, and we?ll hear from St. Catherine?s Casey Baker
& the Buffalo Sinners and Tin Bangs, who were performing there. It?s a
great hour of song writing all around as we hear from The Sled Dogs from
British Columbia?s Okanogan Valley, Randall Spear from Quebec City, Their
Majesty from Halifax and from Prince Edward Island, Catherine McLellan.<br
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Keep checking in this week as you will find more coverage of the Free the
Children Benefit show and other significant happenings this week.<br /><br />
I hope you enjoy the hour which is this week?s show. It?s an honour and a
pleasure to bring it to you.<br /><br /><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.indiecan.com/radio.htm#episode63">http://www.indiecan.com/radio.htm#episode63</a><br
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Warm regards,<br /><br />
Joe Chisholm<br />
Co-host<br />
IndieCan Radio<br /><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.indiecan.com">http://www.indiecan.com</a><br />
info@indiecan.com<br />
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