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- Underground Arts Railroad (UAR) - a comprehensive and searchable list of venues across Canada. Create a profile and submit to venues right from the UAR page.
- Smashing Lumber - another directory of venues across Canada, not as user friendly as UAR.
- Acoustic Roof - a list of house concerts across Canada.
- Be Your Own Booking Agent - 5 steps to follow in booking your own gigs.
- Underground Arts Railroad and Smashing Lumber both have decent lists of Canada's festivals.
- the directory from Canada Council for the Arts is fantastic as once you've got your search results you can export the information as an excel spreadsheet. Very handy for tracking your submissions and printing mailout labels!
licensing
one of the best ways for us musicians to make some money! it can be hard to get noticed by music supervisors, but you can put your music to work yourself -
music industry associations
join your local branch for multitudes of resources (venues, festivals and funding!), shmooze parties, conferences, discounts etc.
- Music BC - musicbc.org
- Alberta Music Industry Assoc. - aria.ab.ca
- Music Yukon - musicyukon.com
- Sask Music - saskmusic.org
- MARIA - manitobamusic.com
- sivers.org - website of Derek Sivers, founder of cdbaby.com and its many branches, is now dedicated soley to providing resources and support to indie musicians. a must read!
- Music is My Business - from the Goverment of Canada a site that "seeks to explain and demystify how the music industry works." Check out the glossary. Good stuff.
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