Kardinal Offishall At Union Station ... Seriously

On Friday, November 18th, 2016 the Juno Award winning artist and Official Ambassador for Canada's 150 Year Celebration Kardinal Offishall headlined an event at Union Station that showcased the importance of the leading music education program MusiCounts TD Community Music Program. This year $525,000 worth of instruments and equipment were awarded to 33 community groups across Canada.  Members of both Art Starts and The Remix Project rounded out the list of performances.  

From Art Starts top left - 3GRay, top right - Brook Banks, bottom l:eft - J.White & from The Remix Project bottom right - Vanessa Lu.  

2016 MusiCounts TD Community Music Grant Recipients Are:
All-City Band Society, Whitehorse, Yukon Territories
Art Starts, Toronto, Ontario
Bella Coola Valley Learning Society, Bella Coola, British Columbia
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orillia, Orillia, Ontario
Birchmount Community Action Council c/o Youth Action Network, Scarborough/Toronto, Ontario
Boys & Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton & Area, Edmonton, Alberta
Boys and Girls Club of Summerside, Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Boys and Girls Clubs of Cape Breton Whitney Pier Youth Club, Sydney, Nova Scotia
Boys and Girls Clubs of St. John's, Newfoundland
Cause and Effect Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
Centre de Pédiatrie Sociale Laval, Laval, Quebec
Girls Action Foundation, Montreal, Quebec
Graffiti Arts Programming Inc, Winnipeg Manitoba
Harmonie de la Seigneurie des Mille Iles, Saint-Eustache, Quebec 
Harmony Project Society of B.C., Sooke, British Columbia
Iqaluit Music Society, Iqaluit, Nunavut
Music NWT, Yellowknife, North West Territories
Ottawa Rock Camp for Girls, Ottawa, Ontario
PACT Urban Peace Program, Toronto, Ontario
Place du Partage, Windsor, Ontario
Regent Park Focus youth Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Regina Symphony Orchestra Inc., Regina, Saskatchewan
Société culturelle des Tracadilles, Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick
Student Media Corporation, CJAM 99.1FM, Windsor, Ontario
The Edmonton Strings Players Association, Edmonton, Alberta
The HopeWorks Connection, Toronto, Ontario
The Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library (Joe's MILL), Kingston, Ontario
The Remix Project, Toronto, Ontario
The Treehouse Housing Association, Telkwa, British Columbia
UNITY Charity, Toronto, Ontario  
Wallaceburg and District Council for the Arts, Wallaceburg, Ontario
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Youth Link, Toronto, Ontario