There’s a lot happening in Halifax this weekend.
Every bar, venue, restaurant, barbershop and vacant lot [but not the Commons] will have music blasting from it this weekend.

We’ll keep this post to official ECMA events and shows for simplicity’s sake.

Thursday
Carmen Townsend and the Shakey Deals kicked off the 72 Hour Jam this afternoon at 4PM that will be running non stop now until Sunday afternoon at 4PM. View the complete 72 Hour Jam Schedule

Actually I was just hit with a wave of not caring. For real. There’s just too much happening.
The whole weekend schedule can be found HERE. It is interactive and quite handy actually [I suppose].

Bands/managers/local label folk should try and take in some of the conference panels though [complete list and times are in the above schedule]. I took in an international touring one this after noon with folk from the UK, the States and Germany and it was quite insightful.

They also have a number of panelists in town this weekend that will likely be at least somewhat familiar to you including Jeremy Morrison (Cooking Vinyl), Blair Purda (Endearing Records and Publishing), Derek Sivers (CD Baby), Bob Baker (music marketing expert) and Jim Schultz (Sonicbids). Someone from IODA is also in town. The keynote on Saturday will be from Bob Ezrin [Canadian who produced Pink Floyd’s The Wall + a lot of other stuff].

One of the sessions from live performance coach Tom Jackson should also be caught if you are a performer.

OK - I’m caring again, but only a bit: here’s the line up for the Marquee stage shows as if you read this blog those shows are probably the ones you’d be most interested in that the ECMA’s are putting on:

Tonight
10:00 - 10:30 PM - Down with the Butterfly
10:40 - 11:10 PM - Alert the Medic
11:20 PM - 12:10 AM - Brian Byrne
12:20 - 1:00 AM - Caledonia
1:10 - 1:50 AM - Jon Epworth and the Improvements

Friday
10:00 - 10:30 PM - On Vinyl
10:40 - 11:10 PM - Mardeen
11:20 PM - 12:10 AM - In-Flight Safety
12:20 - 1:00 AM - Carmen Townsend and the Shakey Deals
1:10 - 1:50 AM - Mark Bragg

Saturday
10:00 - 10:30 PM - Jenn Grant
10:40 - 11:10 PM - Two Hours Traffic
11:20 PM - 12:10 AM - The Novaks
12:20 - 1:00 AM - Slowcoaster
1:10 - 1:50 AM - Chris Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew

On Sunday it’s the actual awards show. Woot!! the Trailer Park Boys are hosting. Again. How original. Yay. Or, even better, as one Miss Shannon Webb-Campbell said in today’s ECMA issue of the Coast:

Let’s get this rant out of the way first—I absolutely loathe the lowbrow menial humour of the Trailer Park Boys. I can’t believe they are hosting AGAIN this year.

I don’t mind their humor so much but….what she said in BOLD.

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