{"id":1977,"date":"2019-11-20T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2019-11-20T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:15:13","slug":"a-week-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/20\/a-week-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This past August, our intern Nathalie got some very exciting news\u2026 she\u2019d won the 2019 MusiCounts scholarship for her work as a recording student! As their website says, \u201cMusiCounts is Canada\u2019s music education charity and is affiliated with CARAS and the JUNO Awards,\u201d making the winning of such a scholarship quite the achievement! Nathalie and five other talented scholarship recipients from across Canada were invited to Toronto for an amazing week of mentorship and networking with industry professionals and their teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile the monetary aspect of the scholarship is great, it was the mentorship week that made winning so amazing! I spent September 30th to October 4th in Toronto, meeting the most inspiring people and seeing important music locales. I was definitely awestruck when I first arrived at the MusiCounts headquarters, which happens to be the same office as the Juno Awards and CARAS! For those who are wondering, Juno trophies are pretty heavy! Yes, I got to hold one, and yes, it was awesome.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Nathalie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the week, Nathalie and the other recipients met mentors from Rogers Radio, Anthem Entertainment, Entertainment One, The Feldman Agency, the Juno Awards, Revolution Recording, and Spotify Canada, among many others. They also had a video chat with pop duo Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine, and had a songwriting masterclass with Matt Webb, guitarist of Marianas Trench. Each day was packed with mentorship sessions from 9 am to 5pm, culminating in the awards presentation and industry mixer at Dine Alone Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe had a chance to speak at the presentation, which I was very happy about. It was a great opportunity to say thank you and let the mentors know how much their time spent with us meant to me. I learned so much, and have a notebook completely full of notes from each session. I\u2019m still in regular contact with the other recipients too! If I had to sum up the most important things and put details aside, though, I\u2019d say that in the music industry, you need passion, hard work, a willingness to reach out, and kindness. Your connections and reputation are so important, and I\u2019m so grateful to MusiCounts for giving me the opportunity to start my career out with both in such a good place!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past August, our intern Nathalie got some very exciting news\u2026 she\u2019d won the 2019 MusiCounts scholarship for her work as a recording student! As their website says, \u201cMusiCounts is Canada\u2019s music education charity and is affiliated with CARAS and the JUNO Awards,\u201d making the winning of such a scholarship quite the achievement! Nathalie and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"RoboGalleryMansoryImagesCenter":false,"RoboGalleryPreload":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"menu-87.2793x36":false,"menu-36x36":false,"menu-48x48":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"BRR Team","author_link":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/author\/brr-team\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This past August, our intern Nathalie got some very exciting news\u2026 she\u2019d won the 2019 MusiCounts scholarship for her work as a recording student! As their website says, \u201cMusiCounts is Canada\u2019s music education charity and is affiliated with CARAS and the JUNO Awards,\u201d making the winning of such a scholarship quite the achievement! Nathalie and…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentriverrecords.macewan.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}