The Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) is crossing the country this fall teaching new and emerging talents how to make their big break.

Sure, it’s about right place right time, but if you’re just kicking it in your garage with your pals and you think you’ve got the right stuff for radio, how do you get make your pitch? What about publishing? I mean, if your record is great, you dont want someone else ripping it off, so how do you protect yourself?

Don Quarles, Mary Simon, Emm Gryner, John Alexander, Phil Evans and Jim Vallance are all on hand today to walk through the process.

I’ve done the entries live blog style. Since there was no wifi that I could hack at the venue they’ve been posted later, but will still have the live blog style of my notetaking.

CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK – MARY SIMON

Enter Radiostar.ca, a national songwriting competition that could net you $10 000 and a trip to Canadian Music Week, the biggest conference for new and emerging artists in Canada. Up to 300 speakers in the industry, distributors, publishers, a&r, radio etc.

One artist from each city hosting the Radiostar contest (12 across Canada) plays in a showcase at CMW, one winner picks up the cash and gear.

Hundreds of acts take over 4 venues in Toronto for Canadian Music Week, if you don’t want to go through Radiostar, you can visit CMW.net for more information to play the festival.

Here are links to the posts for each session:

What’s in a Song? – Emm Gryner
Music Publishing 101 – John Alexander
Writing for Radio – Phil Evans
Song Writing Review and Critique – Panel with Jim Vallance

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