By Darlene Barss
CBC Searchlight, CBC Music’s nationwide search for the best up-and-coming musicians across Canada returns for its fifth year. As in 2016, the top 4 finalists will vie for the grand prize on a prime-time televised broadcast on the CBC TV network, competing in front of a live audience and the celebrity judges.
The Searchlight winner will receive a Grand Prize package with an estimated value of over $46,000. It includes a 10 day residency at the Banff Centre of Arts and Creativity where with the help of a celebrity, they will write and record a new song. They will perform at Banff Centre’s “Performance in the Park” in June 2017 and they will have an opening slot at the CBCMusic.ca Festival in Toronto in May, 2017 and a live studio performance on CBC Radio One’s q radio show. They will also receive recordings and videos. It is a pretty big deal. Find out more about it on CBC Music in the Searchlight section.
I have not had a chance to go through all the 1,258 entries but have made a playlist of 50 artists that I have checked out so far and have voted for them. There are a few more on the following list that have also gotten a vote or two from me but are not on Spotify.
Vancouver: The Ruffled Feathers, Colourful Language, Sorry Edith, Miss Quincy & The Showdown, JADE, blue dirt girl, Alonso, The Lunas
Greater Vancouver Area: Carousel Scene, Cassandra Maze
Vancouver Island: Deep Sea Gypsies
Interior and Northern B.C.: Gleneagle
Calgary and Southern Albert: The Galacticas, Ruben Young, Nick Miciak, The New Electric, Trouble The Youth, LUNAR WILDE, The Static Shift, Midwest Mindset, Fighting Our Last Days (FOLD), Hayden McHugh
Edmonton and Northern Alberta: Two Bears North, Arlo Maverick, Carter & The Capitals, White Lightning, Daisy Groff, Something Mechanical, Savage Playground, Damian La Grange, The Red Cannons, Our Good Wolf
Saskatchewan: Ava Wild, Glenn Sutter, The Wolfe, The Whiskey Jerks, The League of One, Ryan Hicks, Jordan Welbourne, DGS Samurai Champs, The Great Fuss
Manitoba: June Killing Stones, Katie Lynn, IgLa, Sebastian Owl, CASATI, Emily and the Moon, W’ah-zo
Toronto City: Abigail Lapell, FUTURE PEERS, FEATURETTE
The Greater Toronto Area: The Achromatics
Central Ontario: The Do Good Badlies, The Argues
Hamilton: Azalea
Kitchener-Waterloo: The Waverlys
Ottawa: The Wilderness
Windsor and London: Ivory Hours, Kate Channer
Montreal: Glass Hour, BangTangShui, What If Elephants
Quebec: The Nolas
New Brunswick: Jared Lutes
Halifax and Mainland Nova Scotia: Cassie Josephine and Gabriel Minnikin, StoneHouse, Devarrow
The North: The Jerry Cans
Voting for Round 1 is done on Monday, February 27, 2017, at 2:59 p.m. ET. The majority of the artists that move on are picked by the judges but 1 of each region is by vote. I wish the there was more balance to this but it is what it is.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 3:00p.m. ET until Monday, March 13, 2017, at 2:59 p.m. ET is the “Round 2 Voting Period”.
Some of my current favourites are Ava Wild, Abigaill Lapell, The Jerry Cans, The Ruffled Feathers, Miss Quincy & The Showdown, Two Bears North, and Devarrow. Who are your favourites? Do you have artists you know that are in Searchlight? Have you discovered any new artists we should know about?
Hello
Good morning!
Good morning!
I have updated yesterdays post, adding more streams
Good Morning!
Good morning everyone!
so what does everyone have planned for the weekend?
I may go to a party with the theatre group tonight, German Wine Society dinner at a Morrocan restaurant tomorrow and drumming on Sunday. There is also a vinyl collectors sale going on at a local brew pub that should be interesting.
All I’m planning on is a show at the Black Sheep: Patrick Krief (The Dears) + Andrea Ramolo (Scarlett Jane).
tonight
I’m looking forward to watching the Siddal ARLFC vs Toronto Wolfpack on TV on Saturday
In related news, did you know there is a Canadian Rugby League team playing in an English league?
https://www.torontowolfpack.com
garf, fascinating. A first indeed.
I am considering going to watch them play against Newcastle Thunder in May
You all have amazing weekend plans! I’m going to watch the rest of the Scotties, and work on a paper this weekend, while listening to Darbar’s Searchlight playlist.
@Janet, I have been watching little bits of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts when I go to bed this week (one reason I have been staying up too late)
I’ve been watching too, but am fortunate that they’re in my time zone, so I don’t have to stay up later than usual 🙂
Yeah! who’s idea was it to have Canadian sporting events take place at a time suitable for Canadian viewers.
Clearly they should have considered their viewers from across the pond.
indeed, we have most of our soccer games at 3pm on Saturdays so Vancouver fans can watch at 9am local time.
I might be thinking about this too much
Greetings all!
Pre-ordered Amelia Curran’s latest and got my tickets for City + Colour. That’s the most music-y things I’ve done in a while!
Hi Centro
The last music-y thing I did was talk to The Wooden Sky last Friday
I’ve been at Starbucks here in Bend for the past hour working. This weekend, will run and ski a bit. But mainly work as I have a deadline on Wednesday and I gotta jam on it. Now… off for a run!
@DarBar… that sounds like an awesome weekend!
From a friend in Edmonton…
Weatherman Mike and a whirlwind of a dog named Kevin
https://www.facebook.com/GlobalEdmonton/videos/10154130383285927/
This guy is awesome.
Hey Garf, that sounds like fun. I presume you went to a show as well?
@Centro, I knew there was something I meant to do that night
Hi guys!
Hi darbar!
How was the show, garf? I wouldn’t mind seeing them if the stars align someday…
It was great, I did a (terrible) post about it on Monday
http://www.ourbasement.ca/2017/02/20/wooden-sky-independent-sunderland-england/
Meh, it’s not THAT terrible!
where do i send the $5
The ACLU! 🙂
I will do that 🙂
Long story that only has a small musical aspect to it:
I had an automated phone message at home about a delivery for me that had $32.13 in custom duties owing. I could go online and pay it. I assumed it was a scam of some sort as I hadn’t ordered anything. Then a couple days later a courier was at my door with a package coming from France with custom duties owing on it. I was trying to figure out what it was and the courier impatiently told me to hurry up he was busy. He wouldn’t let me crack it open or investigate further so I denied it and sent him away. I called DHL customer service to try to investigate further. She went into a long explanation about where the package was and I cut her off to say yes I know, let me explain. She said all she knew was it was “CD Prints” and the company name. I told her to put the package on hold for a week while I investigated.
I must have misheard the company name because I couldn’t find it. I remembered that I had given both Royal Canoe and Black Mountain some money in their crowd funding after gear being stolen. Maybe one of them were sending me something while they were in France? I tried messaging them on FB and while they read the messages there was no response. It wouldn’t have been Royal Canoe but maybe Black Mountain. I was going to attempt emailing them.
The other night the courier shows up while I am out trying to deliver it again. I had not told them to take it off hold yet. Fine, I will pay the duty online and see what it is. So they come back the next night and hand me this package. I open it up and it is a 3D print of a World of Warcraft character. It is a dwarf named Gloin. My son has a dwarf named Gloin in WoW but he looks at it and tells me that is not my Gloin. Different characteristics and gear than his. So I am going to try to figure out how to deal with this thing and get my money back.
Then this morning there is a message from DHL customer service that the company wanted it sent back so the package has been sent back and the account is now closed. Huh? I have the package sitting in my house. It was not sent back.
So I will be messaging Black Mountain to tell them they could have just said no it wasn’t us and I could have avoided this hassle. And I will have to deal with the company that sent it and DHL to get my money back. Ugh….
Hi bloggers!
Just bought two tickets to the Smugglers show! Who else is coming?
I wish!
Ticketmaster won’t let me buy them yet. Grrr
I will be there though!
I blame Grant
I’d go see the Smugglers if I were anywhere close. It sounds like they need to reunite more permanently and get on a world tour with the Kramdens.
That’s quite the story, darbar.
I got tickets through my phone. I am guessing my old browser was the issue.
looking forward to meeting you in person Darbar!
Likewise Funhug!!
What was weird is that the seating arrangement on the ticketmaster website showed the commodore set up as a wrestling venue?
Well, the Smugglers are a ragged bunch….
Seriously, this Leif Vollebekk album is marvelous. http://open.spotify.com/album/64Yh7XkMmHan0qMmmYTcZj
I just bought my train tickets to Manchester to see either Jenn Grant or John K Samson in May
😀
I thought I wouldn’t be able to find any cheap train tickets because some boy band called Take That are playing in Manchester that night as well
@Funhug, they may be performing “in the round”
Woohoo Garf!
Black Mountain have now replied to me apologizing for not replying thinking they had. I now feel bad that I bothered them.
I promise that you haven’t bothered Black Mountain as much as you think you have
I have even booked a bed for the night this time
All seems good. The Black Mountain social media person told me the pledge gifts will be sent out beginning of March and ended with a “cheers”.
Now I still have to deal with the company in France and DHL courier. I am guessing it won’t end with a “Cheers” from them.
So was it something you ordered or was it sent to the wrong address
We didn’t order it. It must have been someone else with a dwarf character called Gloin and they mixed it up with the one Devin has and shipped it to us. It is very strange. Some mix up with their app maybe.
Years ago, I did get Devin a 3D print of that character with proper features and gear from another company. They could have sent me a character with the same name as one of mine and I might have kept it.
In that case the supplier should cover all of your costs surely
hang on, I want to try something
I am hoping they will. We just need to get it all straightened out. As far as the courier is concerned, I don’t even have it. They tell me they shipped it back already. Haha!
I was about to say I have never used DHL but I think Amazon uses them
Foo Fighters! I got to see them at Blizzcon in 2011. Pretty cool.
The rumour is that they might be a headliner at Glastonbury this year (and I wanted to see if I could embed facebook live streams in the comments)
So at first, I saw Garf’s comment about wanting to try something, but the Foo Fighters video wasn’t visible, and I thought I missed Dave Grohl commenting on the site :).
A re-fresh disabused me of that notion.
Haha! How cool would that have been?
Are the Foos headlining Glasto or not then?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/evfwhn/live/cvfbj5?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=58b008d9e4b07f8d679fe545%26Are%20the%20Foos%20headlining%20Glasto%20or%20not%20then%3F%26&ns_fee=0#post_58b008d9e4b07f8d679fe545
@Janet, I have found out that I can get errors when I try to embed code from some sites into a comment, so I put up a place holder and went around the back of the site to edit the comment and add the code
I’m off to watch some TV in bed, this has nothing to do with the fact the dog is nagging me.
G’night, have great weekend
Night Garf. Have a great weekend yourself!
Good night! Enjoy your weekend!