| Joining the likes of Finger Eleven and The Trews, Calgary’s own Superego have been enlisted as part of Budweiser’s True Music program. This initiative allows beer and music fans who purchase specially-marked cases of suds to get a PIN number and download pre-paid MP3s from Budweiser’s website. Superego will also be featured in the True Music radio advertising campaign and on the hour-long Budweiser Radio special. If you’d like to see the band live while you’re drinking, head down to Ceili’s on July 1 and catch their set at Rockfest. You can also check out some no-purchase-necessary Superego MP3s at www.superego.ca.
Lots of news from local rockers Starewell: they were recently overheard at Calgary’s Sundae Sound Studios while doing some recording with Dave Alcock and Al Irving. We’re not sure if these sessions will be included on the new album they have coming out in August. The quartet will also be making a tour of B.C. and Washington in August. You can get a taste of the new material before the album’s out at Shuckaluck’s Public Ale House (on Braeside Dr. S.W.) on Thursday, July 8. Check out www.starewell.com for more details.
If you’ve been a fan of local punks Redshale over the past two years, you’ll probably want to head down to their final performance on Thursday, July 8 at Broken City (where T.A. Vern’s used to be). They’ll be joined by Vancouver’s Raking Bombs and Red Deer’s To The Teeth To The Hilt. For more info, head to www.redshale.tk.
After narrowing the field from 120 entries to 15 finalists in three categories, the inaugural Ship and Anchor and Calgary Folk Music Festival songwriting competition named John Wort Hannam's "Church of the Long Grass" the best original song on June 26. Hannam joined the winners in the contest’s two other categories – Richard Brown’s "You Can Never Tell" was given the award for best song by a newcomer and The Cape May’s "Hunting Grounds" took the nod for best Alberta Song. (Ironically, The Cape May were first runners-up in the best original song category, while Hannam was first runner-up in the best Alberta song category). For a full list of winners and runners-up, check out www.calgaryfolkfest.com.
Entries are now being accepted in the Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region’s 2005 Emerging Composer Competition. Any Prairie-born or Prairie-educated composer who’s 35 or younger as of the October 31, 2004 application deadline is eligible to enter. The winner will receive $1,000 and have their work – which should be scored for up to five orchestral instruments (one of which can be piano) – performed by members of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at the WSO’s New Music Festival, running from January 29-February 5, 2004. For more information, contact the Canadian Music Centre at 220-7403 or prairie@musiccentre.ca, or visit www.musiccentre.ca.
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