TRISTAN HORNCASTLE NOMINATED FOR 3 PRIX MNB AWARDS!
Moncton, NB (September 21, 2015) – And the secret is out: Music•Musique NB (MNB) has unveiled the list of contenders for the 6th annual Prix MNB Awards, which Tristan Horncastle is amongst the nominees in 3 categories for Album of the Year, Emerging Artist of the Year and Country Artist of the Year. A total of 30 awards will be presented to artists and industry professionals who have made their mark on the NB music scene in 2014-15.
The winners will be announced during a gala event on Thursday, October 15 at the Tide and Boar Ballroom (700 Main St. Moncton, NB). The gala will kick off Festival (506), a four-day event that showcases some of the best of the New Brunswick music industry. The festival aims to present a diverse, comprehensive and all around awesome experience for delegates and fans alike!
Tickets for the gala and event passes are on sale at www.musicnb.org
THE POLLS ARE OPEN
It’s now time to vote! Like last year, some categories will be open to the public and the membership to vote on and some will be evaluated solely by a qualified set of jurors.
Genre-specific as well as certain industry categories will be determined solely by a panel of jurors. General categories recipients will be decided by the general public (25%), jurors (25%) and MNB members (50%). All nominees from general and genre specific categories will automatically be eligible for the Fan’s Choice Artist of the Year award, which will be determined 100% by the public.
Voting begins online at www.musicnb.org on Monday, September 21st and ends on Friday, October 9 at 12 noon.
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BRAND NEW ALBUM FROM HEY ROMEO OUT THIS WEEK!
For Immediate Release:
Alberta-based, CCMA Award winning Country band Hey Romeo
set to release Ride With Me EP September 25th
(Toronto, On –September 21st) – Hey Romeo’s records always reflect their commitment to their craft, their fans and each other, and Ride With Me (Royalty Records/Sony Music Canada) is no exception.
On Ride With Me, vocalist Stacie Roper, guitarist Darren Gusnowsky and keyboardist Rob Shapiro offer up their signature blend of harmonies, but also display a deeper, more fluent dialogue as players and songwriters than ever before.
Preoccupied with beginnings and endings, the 7-song EP dwells equally on the hope new relationships inspire and the places where love went wrong, treading the line between heartbreak and happiness and on songs like the tongue in cheek lead single, ‘Pushing Up Daisies,’ and rockers like ‘If That Sounds Like You’ and ‘Don’t Cry To Me’ – a track that finds Hey Romeo stretching out to create a unique style of modern country with echoes of 80’s New Wave haunting the edges.
Ride With Me’s title track finds Gusnowsky stepping up to take on lead vocals for the first time since Hey Romeo’s self-titled debut, adding substantial depth to the record and displaying just how much talent the trio possess, individually and collectively.
Ride With Me features an aggressive, more modern sound for the band, a seamless blend of country, roots and straight ahead rock and roll that’s a product of Shapiro and Gusnowsky’s insistence on producing the EP themselves, capturing Hey Romeo’s live sound on record and, Shapiro says, “Owning the album from the bottom up.”
Put bluntly, Hey Romeo have put in their 10,000 hours and then some, and that shows on Ride With Me; a set of songs so true to life, listeners will hear their own lives reflected in them on the very first listen.
About Hey Romeo: 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.
Track List:
If That Sounds Like You
Pushing Up Daisies
After All This Time
Ride With Me
Don’t Cry To Me
Something I Could Get Used To
Half Your Love
RADIO VISITS/TOUR DATES
Sept 24 – Leduc, AB (Special acoustic appearance – The One radio station) Stage 1, Jonathans Lounge, Denim Inn and Suites
Sept 25 – Red Deer, AB (performing on KG Sessions)
Oct 16 – Edmonton, AB (CFCW Listener Appreciation Party) The Venue-Rivercree Casino
Oct 17 – Grande Prairie, AB (Corporate Event)
Oct 24 – Edmonton, AB (STARS 5th Building Magic in the Air Gala) Chateau Lacombe
Dec 3 – Fort McMurray, AB (Corporate Event) Sawridge Inn
Dec 10 – Fort McMurray, AB (Corporate Event) Sawridge Inn
2016 Canadian Co-headline Tour – Dates TBA
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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
For Immediate Release:
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”
(MAL)
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