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Rural Music Project begins with Noel

A J.P. Cormier Christmas, December 8-17

By Ken Chisholm - What's Goin On

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(J.P. Cormier, left, will be joined by Bill Elliot, right, and his bass-playing brother Mike on the inaugural Rural Music Project Tour, which will see J.P. Cormier and the Elliot Brothers present Cormier's first Christmas show in 8 rural communities around Cape Breton and eastern Nova Scotia - photo: Murdock Smith)

“The lightbulb moment was bringing these two needs together to help both,” Max MacDonald says his new endeavour, The Rural Music Project. “As a one-off gig, none of these venues make sense. They’re too small and they don’t have staff to organize a show. However, if you string 5, 8, 12 or more of these together and have central organization, the numbers start to add up. That was the lightbulb moment.”

Mac-Using Troubadour Launches Comeback CD, Music Industry Software

By Charles Moore - LowEndMac

An old friend of mine, Nova Scotian musician Max MacDonald, recently released his first solo CD in his varied career as a singer, actor, songwriter, and entertainment manager.

Max was front man for the Cape Breton, NS based rock band Buddy and the Boys back in the '70s and early '80s, a mainstay in the touring music and comedy repertories "The Rise and Follies of Cape Breton" and "The Cape Breton Summertime Revue" from 1977 until 1995, and, as a principal in the entertainment promotion firm Rave Entertainment, founder and organizer of the fall Celtic Colours music festival from 1997 to 2008, which grew to an event featuring more than 400 performers.

Songs of Home was officially released at an event at the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club in late November. I was so pleased that the room was full, including a number of the writers who contributed to the CD. It was a terrific night!

Wendy Bergfeldt, from CBC, was also there recording some of the activity. CBC’s Island Echoes will be broadcasting some of the event action this Saturday, Jan. 10 @ 8:05 pm (AST). The show will also be available online by going to http://www.cbc.ca/islandechoes/

Cheers,

Max

Taking it to the Max at the ECMAs

By Laura Jean Grant - The Cape Breton Post

Max MacDonald wearing several hats in Corner Brook, N.L

Max MacDonald certainly won't be cold with all the hats he'll be wearing at the East Coast Music Association's awards, festival and conference weekend later this month in Corner Brook, N.L.

A well-known figure in the island's entertainment scene, MacDonald recently began a new job at Sydney-based Marcato Digital, developing web-based software for the music industry, and last fall put out a solo CD, Songs of Home, which has earned him his first two ECMA music award nominations.

"I'm going there wearing a whole bunch of hats. I mean I'm going there certainly to support the Team Cape Breton ECMA group to promote the ECMA here next year. I'm also going wearing my Marcato Digital hat to talk to a lot of the international delegates about what we're doing, and I'll have a little beanie, a little artist cap too," said MacDonald. "It's going to be fun. It's going to be really exciting."