The Rogers Spring Music Festival is a celebration of music that showcases between 50 and 100 of the hottest 'buzz acts' from Canada and the US. It will take place May 7-9, 2009 at more than 12 live music venues in the city of Hamilton, Ontario.
Selected artists will be compensated for their performances. Regional artists will receive a $50 stipend to offset travel costs and artists from outside the region will receive lodging and meals. For artists with larger draws, larger financial compensations will be offered. Festival management will work with each artist to ensure maximum media coverage.
The festival will bring in headlining and touring bands. All selected artists will be considered for support at these concerts. Also, your band can be chosen as one of the participating bands in the Rogers/Y108 Breakout Band Challenge. This year, more than 100 bands are expected to battle it out at various venues across Ontario for chance to win more than $10,000 in prizes, recording time and a feature on Y108 FM.
All genres of music accepted with a focus on rock, heavy music/new metal and reggae/ska showcases. All bands are eligible.
Past performers include: Three Days Grace, The Trews, The Tea Party, IllScarlet, The Tea Party, Tomi Swick, Threat Signal, Jack DeKeyser, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Cancer Bats, The Marble Index, Junkhouse, Ryan Malcolm, Grady, Ron Sexsmith, Cursed, Social Code, Robin Black, Kevin Hearn (BNL) and many more
Rogers Spring Music Festival Confirms $15,000 in Prizes Including Prize Packages from Shure and Metalworks Studio
Tuesday March 3rd, 2009
Hamilton-BLR Entertainment, the organizers of the Rogers Spring Music Festival have once again brought back their famed Y108/Rogers Spring Music Festival Band Challenge, Powered by Supernova. This year more than 100 bands are competing at various locations across Ontario in an effort to win what is becoming the largest prize draw in the region’s history. In more than 10 qualifying rounds, each night 10 bands will compete with one moving on to the semi finals, which is an online vote on Y108.ca as well as a feature on the stations indie show “Get Hammeredâ€.
Y108 will direct their listeners to log on to their web site to listen and vote for their favourite new band. The five bands with the most votes will move on to the finals to be judged by a panel of industry professionals at the Corktown Pub during the festival. With an average listenership of 30,000 people, that amounts to a great deal of needed exposure to the finalists! To date the growing prize list includes:
-Feature Spotlight on Y108 FM'S "get Hammered Showcase"
-12 hours recording time at Metalworks Studio
-12 hours mixing time at Metalworks Studio
-One week of advertising on Myspace Canada
-Featured band on Myspace Music
-*One LG Secret cell phone per band member (up to max. 5) c/o LG
-Free CD artwork c/o BLR Entertainment
-50 Free CDs c/o Music Manufacturing Services
-Radio promotion from DB Promotions
-25 free customized t-shirts c/o House of Bands
-Rehearsal time at Soundcheck Studios
-feature in a media release to industry
-$500 Gift Certificate from Long & McQuade
-$4000 Prize package from Shure
* SLX24/BETA58 Wireless Microphone System (qty 1)
* PSM400 Personal Monitoring System (P4TRE3- qty1)
*DMK57-52 Drum Mic Kit- (1) BETA52; (3) SM57;
(3) A56D; (1) Case)
*SM58-LC Vocal Microphone (qty 4)
Previous winners include Dean Lickyer who were recently featured on MuchMusic’s reality show, Disband, 40 Sons and Daughters who were the Canadian finalists in the Bodog Championship and Fontana North/Universal artist Little Sunday.
You can purchuse tickets online now:
For Neverending White Lights Tickets:
http://www.ticketscene.ca/events/828/
For Grady Tickets:
http://www.ticketbreak.com/event_details/2732
