Tomorrow's the big day!
If you're in Canada, grab your camera and film your life. Then, upload it to the Canada In A Day website and it could be featured in a two hour CTV special on Canada Day to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday! There are many celebrity ambassadors on board including Ben Mulroney, Avan Jogia, Jessica Lucas, Cabbie Richards, Robbie Amell, and more. Who's overlooking all of this? Canadian director Trish Dolman. I will be filming myself as I recover from doing red carpet interviews at the My Roomate's An Escort Black Tie Gala and prepare to moderate a cast and director Q&A at the Canadian premiere of The Frozen Goose. Will you be participating? Now's the time where it really kicks in that award season is quickly approaching. The 2016 Toronto International Film Festival has officially kicked off bringing tons of films from all of our favourite A-listers. PepMag, an inspiring and exciting new magazine created by my girl Ann Pirvu launching next week, will feature an article written by yours truly featuring five TIFF films that I think are worth watching. Here are my top three (you'll have to check out the magazine on the 16th for the other two): 1) Hidden Figures - “NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson cross gender and race lines to help launch astronaut John Glenn into outer space.” (IMDb) 2) In Dubious Battle - “California migratory workers rise against the landowners in a wage dispute.” (IMDb) 3) Bleed For This - “With help from trainer Kevin Rooney, champion boxer Vinny Pazienza tries to make a comeback after severing his spine in a car accident.” (IMDb) _________________________________________________________________________________________ Check out PepMag on September 16th to see my Pep5 picks and how they rate on the PepMeter! It's always great to have an expert on hand to sound-off on the things that I don't know all that much about. I'd like to introduce you to some of the amazing peeps that will be helping me out this blogging season.
Monika Rejnowicz: She's the owner of Makeup Worx (once featured on The Saverina Show when she recreated JLo's 2015 Golden Globes smokey eye). You'll get to read Monika's red carpet makeup trend predictions and celebrity beauty product reviews this season. Sonia Giampietro: This woman is always down to hook me up with the hottest Stella N' Dot accessories. Stay tuned for some fun YouTube segments and blog posts from the two of us. Katie McClelland: Looking to get into yoga? Katie will be your go-to source for great poses and sequences throughout the season. Care Oehm: Sports are not my thing, but someone who does know a thing or two is Care. We'll be collaborating whenever sports and entertainment come together. Looking forward to collaborating with these amazing ladies! Note that I'm always open to bringing on new guest bloggers onto the team. It may be a team of ladies right now, but I'm open to all genders. Contact me here if you're interested! While I was stuffing my face with cheesecake and watching The Roast of Rob Lowe, Yoncé was partying with all of my favourite celebrities to celebrate her 35th birthday.
What was the theme of this party that I missed out on? Soul Train. Everyone was rocking their best disco attire, including Destiny's Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams as well as Bey's sister Solange. Also at the party were Carmelo Anthony, LaLa Anthony, Swizz Beatz, Alecia Keys, Usher, Cassie, Diddy and more. Oh, and you can't forget her other half, Jay Z. It must have been one hell of a party considering it ended at 5am this morning. Perhaps if I work hard enough I can land an invite to the next one. Happy #MusicMonday! I'm still recovering from the long weekend, how about you? I decided to take off Friday instead of today because there is always something to write about for #MusicMonday. However, I did post a couple of new interviews with Emmy winning entertainment reporter Chris Van Vliet and stand-up comedian Jeff Dye. Check it out here.
For this today's post, I'm featuring a Q&A I did with The Vaudevillian, a group of musicians with a cool sound, over the summer. Check it out below: What's the deal with your name and when did you start making super cool music together? The Vaudevillian name originated when Jitterbug James was 15 after he was given a record player from his grandma along with old records like Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie and fell in love with the ways of that old music. He wanted more and kept finding these long, lost Vaudeville records. The genre, Vaudeville originated in a place where there was bawdy drinking and performing of all live art performances and it translates directly to, "voice of the city." Jitterbug James wanted to be the voice of these lost tunes and to bring them back rearranged with his own musical flare to the city. James met Norah on the shore of Port Elgin at a flea market. She was with her grandma and after swimming in the lake was on the hunt for old antiques, what she found instead was a busking gentleman who couldn't keep his eyes off of her. After fumbling a few of his words in his song, Norah's grandma nudged her to talk to him. They ended up talking in the water of the lake for that whole night straight and fell in love. Since them meeting, they stayed in touch through letters and met for tea often. It then came to the point they couldn't be away from me another and they moved in together and began making music together along with a family of furry pets. As Norah had been a rock drummer in a previous band, and growing up with her grandma in a trailer park with grandma washing clothing with a washboard, everything fit together perfectly. I think you have a unique sound. Have you been tempted to change it in order to fit in with "mainstream artists"? We would never alter our music to be anything like mainstream music. You released a new album not long ago. What was the response from both your community and all of your followers? Our newest record, Bringing Satan Down, was recorded on an 8 track using 1/2 IN tape and is far better than any of our last 5 records, even put together. Before we released it, we sold 400 in a month only in small towns, not in the four towns we were doing a cd release in. We're now up to 1000 records sold and we haven't even released it officially in all 4 towns. We decided to sell at least 10,000 records this year and we will! We've had such great support from our followings, and having a kickass team; BadTaste Music Agency based out of Austria as our managers, Busted Flat Records as our label, and Sarah French as our publicist has given us a strong backing of the band. We couldn't be more thrilled for what's to come! _________________________________________________________________________________________ The one thing that stands out to me from this Q&A is their answer to the questions regarding fitting in with mainstream artists. I've seen way too many big name artists (*cough* Hedley and their single Lose Control *cough*) do this. l wish The Vaudevillian continued success and look forward to seeing what they do next! |
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