MusiCounts, along with the help of JUNO Award winning special guest singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett, celebrated the $10,000 Band Aid Grant awarded to Sackville High School. The event featured East Coast favourite, Joel Plaskett, who talked about the importance of music education and performed for those in attendance. Performances were also given by the Sackville High School Concert Band and Vocal Ensemble.  (more…)

MusiCounts, along with Roland and SiriusXM Canada, is excited to announce the creation of a partnership that will award the newly created MusiCounts Roland Jam Pak, presented by SiriusXM, to one Canadian Jr. High or Secondary school. The new initiative will fill the winning school’s music room with a jam-band collection of instruments worth over $12,000. The pack will include a drum kit, digital piano, synthesizer, amps, and a number of other great accessories to add to the school’s instrument collection and music program.

The MusiCounts Roland Jam Pak, presented by SiriusXM, will be open to all Public, Jr. High and Secondary schools within Canada. The winning school will be chosen based on a number of criteria, including economic need; inventory and condition of instruments; number of students; dedication of school staff; and how the schools would plan to use the Jam Pak if awarded.

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BARENAKED LADIES FRONTMAN ED ROBERTSON AND
CANADIAN ASTRONAUT CHRIS HADFIELD MAKE PRESENTATION

Today, MusiCounts, Canada’s music education charity associated with The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, along with the help of special guests Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies and Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield, announced the recipients of the 2011-2012 Band Aid Grants today. $600,000 will be awarded through 69 grants, in both $5,000 and $10,000 increments, impacting 85 schools across Canada. In this year alone, over 18,000 Canadian children will have their lives impacted through these grants.

This year’s grants impact young Canadians and support diverse music programs that include concert and jazz bands as well as drum and guitar ensembles. The grants are given to school with grade ranges of pre-kindergarten to grade 12 in elementary, junior high, and high schools in urban, rural, remote and First Nations communities from coast to coast. Band Aid Grants are awarded to elementary, secondary and separate schools in Canada and are selected based on economic need: inventory and condition of instruments; number of students; dedication of school staff and the overall impact of the grant would make within the school community are factors taken into consideration in choosing the grant recipient schools.

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