The Boom Chucka Boys Win CCMA for Album Design of the Year
Presented at the 2015 CCMA Luncheon Awards, Brandon Heard from Mediavandals was awarded with Album Design of the Year for The Boom Chuck Boy’s Album – Ramble, Photography was also done by Ashley Champagne.
The Boom Chucka Boys – Can’t Take My Lips Off You (Official Music Video)
Multiple CCMA Award Winners Hey Romeo Release New Single
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Multiple CCMA Award winners Hey Romeo release new single
‘Pushing’ Up Daisies’ August 24th
(Toronto, ON – August 14th) – Scheduled to hit radio on August 24, 2015, ‘Pushing Up Daisies’ is a swamp-rock fuelled, country stomp that finds Hey Romeo offering up their signature blend of harmonies and the fluent musical interplay they’ve cultivated over a decade of touring and recording.
Sung with a smile and a smirk in the vein of the Dixie Chicks’ ‘Goodbye Earl’ the lead single from Hey Romeo’s forthcoming EP, Ride With Me, (release date: Sept 25th, 2015) is a dark, tongue in cheek track anyone can relate to, says lead singer, Stacie Roper. “Everyone has someone in their life that’s wronged them, but still thinks they can be taken right back, and this is a cheeky way of saying that’s just not gonna happen.”
Frankly, ‘Pushing Up Daisies’ is a tune so true to life that fans and new listeners alike will see their own lives, loves and heartaches reflected in it on the very first listen.
Over the years Hey Romeo have toured extensively, playing countless shows on their own and with artists including Sugarland, Darius Rucker, Gord Bamford, Johnny Reid, Alan Jackson, Terri Clark and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
In that time Hey Romeo have been awarded multiple CCMA Awards beginning with Top New Talent of the Year (2008), and Group or Duo of the Year two years running in 2011 and 2012. In 2014 their single, ‘Hello Patio,’ from the I Got This EP garnered the band the Alberta Country Music Award (ACMA) for Song of the Year.
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New Single From The Boom Chucka Boys

“Can’t Take My Lips Off You”
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WHERE TO SEE ROYALTY ARTISTS AT BIG VALLEY JAMBOREE
THE ORCHARD
THURSDAY JULY 30TH, 2015
Showtime: 3:00pm
Molson Canadian Saloon
Showtime: 7:00pm
THE BOOM CHUCKA BOYS
FRIDAY JULY 31ST, 2015
Showtime: 12:00pm
Showtime: 3:30pm
HEY ROMEO
FRIDAY JULY 31ST, 2015
Showtime: 2:00pm
Showtime: 3:30pm
BLAKE REID
SUNDAY AUGUST 2ND, 2015
Showtime: 1:00pm
Showtime: 3:30pm
AMY METCALFE
SUNDAY AUGUST 2ND, 2015
Showtime: 3:30pm
ROYALTY RECORDS 2015 CCMA NOMINEES ARE…
July 15, 2015 (Toronto, ON) – The Canadian Country Music Association® (CCMA®) announced this years 2015 nominees, which includes Royalty Records artists’, Tristan Horncastle up for “Rising Star of the Year” and The Boom Chucka Boys nominated for “Group of the Year”, “Album Design of the Year” and Gord Bamford for “Producer of the Year” for The Boom Chucka Boy’s album – Ramble. Ben Shillabeer of The Boom Chucka Boys is also up for the “All-Star Band Award – Drummer of the Year”.
Royalty Records has also been nominated for ‘Record Label of the Year”, President/CEO – Rob Smith is up for “Record Label Person of the Year” and Royalty Music Publishing Inc. is up for “Music Publishing Company of the Year”.
Eight (8) awards will be presented on the 2015 CCMA Awards Show, being broadcast on CBC-TV at 8 p.m. local time (8:30 p.m. NT) with an encore airing on CMT (Canada) at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on Sunday, September 13.
This years awards will take place in Halifax on Sunday September 13th, 2015 at the Scotiabank Centre. Tickets for the show are now available to purchase here.
For a full list of nominees click here
About the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA):
Established in 1976, the CCMA is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization committed to the promotion and recognition of Canadian country music. Built upon the foundation to educate, elevate and celebrate Canadian talent, the CCMA progressively heralds the spirit, community and creativity that country music fosters through year-round initiatives, culminating every fall with Country Music Week and the Canadian Country Music Association Awards. Local sponsors of the CCMA Discovery Program – Atlantic Canada include the Province of Nova Scotia, the City of Halifax and the Government of Canada through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
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For media requests please contact:
Kathryn Hummel
Royalty Records Inc.
(416) 712-9375
kathryn.hummel@royaltyrecords.ca
AMY METCALFE FT. TRISTAN HORNCASTLE – WHISKEY WON’T FIX ME
NEW MUSIC FROM THE ORCHARD HITS COUNTRY RADIO THIS WEEK!
Royalty Records & Sony Music Canada Present
With “Wanted” we were wanting to portrait a story of a couple who are getting themselves into trouble. Kind of a Bonnie and Clyde type thing. We wanted it to sound fun and exciting. Bart McKay helped us put this one together, and we are happy with how it turned out.. Crank it up! – Mitch & Kasha (The Orchard)
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Fresh off the heels of The Orchard’s successful COCA Showcase and their selection as the Alberta representative in the 2015 CCMA Spotlight Performance Contest, they are set to hit the road for a busy summer of shows.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
June 29th, 2015 Ponoka Stampede – Ponoka, AB
July 4th, 2015 Osteria Restaurant – Calgary, AB
July 7th, 2015 Osteria Restaurant – Calgary, AB
July 11th, 2015 Wild Hose Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 16th, 2015 Billy Bob’s – Westerner Days – Red Deer, AB
July 17th, 2015 Corporate Gig
July 18th, 2015 HMV in-store Bower Mall – Red Deer, AB
July 18th, 2015 Bo’s – Red Deer, AB
July 30th, 2015 Big Valley Jamboree (Kick-off Party) Camrose, AB
September 5th, 2015 – Party in the Park – Whitecourt, AB
September 11th, 2015 – Apex Casino – St Albert, AB
September 12th, 2015 – Apex Casino – St Albert, AB
September 19th, 2015 – Art in our Park – Edmonton, AB
ROYALTY ARTISTS AT CALGARY STAMPEDE
Want to check out a few of our artists at Calgary Stampede?
Here’s where you can check a few of them out!
The Boom Chucka Boys
July 3rd, 2015 Nashville North – Calgary AB
The Orchard
July 4th, 2015 Osteria Restaurant – Calgary, AB
July 7th, 2015 Osteria Restaurant – Calgary, AB
July 11th, 2015 Wild Horse Saloon – Calgary, AB
Tristan Horncastle
July 2nd, 2015 Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 3rd, 2015 Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 4th, 2015 Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 6th, 2015 Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 7th, 2015 Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 8th, 2015 Bookers Crab Shack – Calgary, AB
July 9th, 2015 Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 10th, 2015 Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
NEW COUNTRY DUET FROM AMY METCALFE FT. TRISTAN HORNCASTLE
“Whiskey Won’t Fix Me”
Produced by: Aaron Goodvin, Bart Butler & Tristan Horncastle
“I started to write this song at Big Valley Jamboree, on my walk towards the outhouses (true story). As I was on my walk, I passed through and by a lot of campsites. So many people were a mess. I’m all for having a good time, but you can always tell the difference between people that party for fun and people that try to disappear for a few days. I wrote the lyrics on my leg with a pen, or rather scratched them on, as the pen wasn’t working. I sang the Whis-key won’t fix-me over and over, so I wouldn’t forget. My friends probably thought I was in space, because I was kind of out of it the whole weekend. I was in a writing trance. I had written a few more lyrics to the chorus like “rum leaves me numb”. But I could just tell it wasn’t becoming what it should.
When I was in Nashville, I took the song to the magical Byron Hill (George Strait, Gary Allen, Gord Bamford) and I played him the chorus I had. He changed my second sub par line and added a better one and then we began to write the verses. We wrote the song in about 45 minutes and I knew it was done! Man he’s good. The song ended up lighter, cute and just a feel good song. Now after we wrote it, I thought to myself, this needs to be a duet, who’s a down to earth, rich voiced country singer that can give the song what I’m envisioning. Tristan Horncastle, that’s who. He sent me a voice memo of him singing it acoustically and I knew it was going to be something great. He did such a great job on this track. We recorded it in Nashville with producers Aaron Goodvin, Bart Butler and engineered by Julian King, who has engineered for artists like Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill’s smash “Breathe” and MANY more. Aaron and Bart brought this song one step further, they delivered such a radio, patio, pontoon friendly jam along song.
For some reason you don’t see a lot of collaborations in Canadian Country Music and I’m so excited to change that”. -Amy Metcalfe

“First listening to the song I was struck by how well written it is….it all begins with that! The second part is the simplicity in the recording that makes the two of you shine as artists. Seeya on the charts!” – Ralph Murphy – ASCAP Nashville
“Two minutes and forty-one seconds of 100 Proof Magic! Everything about it sounds like a BIG hit.” – Byron Hill – Songwriter/Producer/Musician
A great Country duet song about “ Drinkin up the one you Love”… I love it. – Duane Steele – Singer/Songwriter
“I love it! Seriously, it sounds great and I love the tempo and lyrics…. Their voices work really well together.“- Christie Armstrong – Sakamoto Entertainment

June 20th, 2015 Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival – Beaumont, AB
June 29th, 2015 Ponoka Stampede – Ponoka, AB
July 9th, 2015 Carman Fair – Carman, MB
July 11th, 2015 Carman Fair – Carman, MB
July 23rd, 2015 – July 29th, 2015 Chengdu International Festival – Chengdu, China
August 1st, 2015 BVJ Songwriters Stage – Camrose, AB
August 15th, 2015 Corporate – Red Deer Golf and Country Club – Red Deer, AB
August 16th, 2015 Ivan Daines Picnic – Innisfail, AB

June 26th, 2015 Bud Country Fever – Grande Prairie, AB
June 28th, 2015 Ponoka Stampede – Ponoka, AB
July 1st, 2015 Draft Bar and Grill – Edmonton, AB
Calgary Stampede Dates:
July 2nd, 2015 7:00pm Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 3rd, 2015 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:00pm, 9:00pm Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 4th, 2015 5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:30pm Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 6th, 2015 1:00pm, 3:00pm, 5:30pm Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 7th, 2015 7:30am, 9:00am, 3:00pm, 5:30pm Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 8th, 2015 12:00pm – 4:00pm & 7:30pm – 11:00pm – Bookers Crab Shack – Calgary, AB
July 9th, 2015 1:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:00pm Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 10th, 2015 1:00pm, 3:00pm, 5:30pm, 9:00pm Wildhorse Saloon – Calgary, AB
July 11th, 2015 Peacefest – Peace River, AB
July 12th, 2015 NASHVILLE NORTH (All Star band Jam)
Aug 8th, 2015 Manitoulin Countryfest – Little Current, ON

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