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Press Release
For Immediate Release
Keynote
Speakers Confirmed for Canadian Music Week
MEDIA INFORMATION / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Executive
Conference Puts Digital Trends and Technology in Focus
With No-Holds-Barred Look at Key Issues Affecting
The Music, Media and Technology Industries
Toronto, Ontario (November 26, 2002)
– Author and consultant Don Tapscott delivers
the opening keynote address at It’s a Digital
World – the title of this year’s Canadian
Music Week Executive Conference, which takes place February
27 to March 1, 2003 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel
in Toronto. Also confirmed for the three-day event are
music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz,
author Andrew Hill, producer Daniel
Lanois and recording artist Pat DiNizio.
Past speakers at the conference have included: Clive
Davis, Malcom McLaren, Ice-T, Henry Rollins, Chrissie
Hynde, Phil Ramone, Chuck D., Thomas Dolby, Moby, Nicholas
Negroponte and Lou Pearlman. Additional speakers will
be announced at a later date.
An
authority on business strategy and a consultant to Fortune
100 companies around the world, Don Tapscott
has written nine books on the application of technology
in business, including Paradigm Shift (1991), The Digital
Economy (1995) and Growing Up Digital (1998). Tapscott’s
message will focus on solutions for “how to compete
with free/industry at risk” challenges that the
new technology has imposed on the music industry.
Bob Lefsetz, author of The Lefsetz
Letter, will deliver his sometime controversial observations
on downloading, records, love and the music industry.
He will be interviewed by Jake Gold, President of The
Management Trust (The Tragically Hip, Watchmen), and
participate in a “State of the Industry”
Town Hall moderated by Bruce Allen.
Andrew Hill, author of Be Quick –
But Don’t Hurry, presents his 20 “secrets”
to successful management based on his experiences with
legendary college coach John Wooden. He is a former
programming head of CBS Television, having produced
hits like Dr. Quinn and Walker: Texas Ranger.
Daniel Lanois touches down for an intimate
Q & A followed by a solo acoustic set. Recently
signed to Epitaph Records’ Anti imprint, Lanois
will release his third solo album, Steel, in January.
Lanois has worked with such artists as U2 on All That
You Can't Leave Behind, which won him a Grammy and a
JUNO Award. He has also helmed albums for Bob Dylan
(Time Out of Mind, Oh Mercy), Peter Gabriel (So, Us,
Birdy), and Willie Nelson (Teatro), and performed various
instruments on those artists’ releases as well.
Pat DiNizio is the founder, principal
songwriter, guitarist and vocalist for the platinum
recording artists The Smithereens. He is currently program
director and radio personality for XM Satellite Radio’s
"XM UNSIGNED", the first ever and only national
radio station to focus solely on the music of unsigned
bands, emerging artists, and independent record labels.
Additional Conference Highlights:
*Canada AM personality, Seamus O’Reagan, hosts
an industry panel which simultaneously rates wines from
the Niagara Region – and new musical releases.
*Ken Benson, Vice President, International of Pinnacle
Media Management looks at the top 25 radio promotions
of all time.
*Music industry “lifers” trade war stories.
*Eric Samuels, VP of Programming for Standard Broadcasting
leads a group of music directors in a frank, detailed
walk-through of the process by which songs are listed.
Winners of the National Songwriting Contest will be
announced at this session.
*Presentation of research from the “Value of Music”
campaign developed by the Canadian Recording Industry
Association
Honorary co-chairs of this year’s Canadian Music
Week are Paul Alofs, former President
of Strategic Business Units for MP3.com, and Chuck
McCoy, Vice-President and General Manager of
Rogers’ Toronto radio properties. Canadian Music
Week is sponsored by the Internet portal, sympatico.ca.
For more information, visit the CMW Web site at www.cmw.net.
About Canadian Music Week
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Canadian Music Week
is the single largest entertainment initiative in Canada
dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s
media and entertainment industries. CMW combines two
information-intensive conferences; a cutting-edge trade
exposition; five awards shows and the Canadian Music
Week Festival. Held over a four-day period from February
26 to March 1, 2003, in Toronto Canada, the event attracts
participants from across the country and around the
world.
More
on Page 3/…
Page 3/Canadian Music Week Keynote SpeakersAbout Sympatico
Inc.
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visited by more than 5.5 million Canadians* each month.
Rich with broadband and wireless content, sympatico.ca
offers exclusive concert Web casts, in-depth search
capability and applications such as Instant Messaging
and Web Mail. Owned by Bell Globemedia Interactive,
the leading suite of Canadian-owned Internet properties,
sympatico.ca also offers city sites (vancouverplus.ca;
calgaryplus.ca; edmontonplus.ca; montrealplus.ca; ottawaplus.ca;
quebecplus.ca, toronto.com), directories (yellowpages.ca,
canada411.ca) and content from leading news (globeandmail.com),
finance (globeinvestor.com), sports (tsn.ca) and careers
(workopolis.com) sites and broadcast companion sites
for CTV (ctv.ca), Report on Business Television (robtv.com)
and Discovery Channel (exn.ca). Bell Globemedia Interactive
is a division of Bell Globemedia, which also owns CTV
Inc. and The Globe and Mail.###For additional information,
contact:
Julie Giles, Holmes Creative Communications
Tel: 416-628-5609
E-mail: jgiles@holmesmark.com
Jennifer Alsop, Holmes Creative Communications
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E-mail: jalsop@holmesmark.com
Maureen McTague, Canadian Music Week
Tel: 905-858-4747
E-mail: communications@cmw.net
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