Tuesday June 19th, 2018 The 2018 Socan Awards www.socan.ca/ took place Monday June 18th, 2018 at Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel www.sheratontoronto.com/ . Socan is a performing rights society that licenses the public performance and communication of the world’s repertoire of copyright-protected musical works in Canada and then distributes royalties to its members and affiliated...
Saturday April 2nd,2017 he 2017 Juno Award Gala Dinner took place Saturday April 1st,2017 at Ottawa’s Shaw Centre. Some of the winners included Drake,Leonard Cohen, The Strumbellas and A Tribe Called Red. A special award was handed out to Canadian music legend “Buffy Sainte-Marie. Rudy Blair Entertainment Media Chats with Sainte-Marie about receiving the 2017...
Friday September 12th, 2025 A movie about a young female rock critic who leaves her column at an Ontarian alt-weekly for La Belle Province, and to write her 33 ⅓ paean to Alanis Morrissette’s Jagged Little Pill can be seen at the 50th annual Toronto International Film Festival https://tiff.net . Rudy Blair...
Tuesday March 14th,2017 The 2017 Canadian Screen Awards took place Sunday March 12th at Toronto’s Sony Center For The Performing Arts. Some of the nominations include “Orphan Black” with 14, “Schitt’s Creek followed with 13 and “Kim’s Convenience” 11. Some of the stars included show host “Howie Mandel”, “Dave Chappelle”, “Tatiana Maslany” & “Eugene Levy”....
Friday October 20th, 2017 You may notice theres a new but familiar theme song for Hockey Night in Canada. It’s actually a remake of the 1970’s hit “Saturday Night” by the Bay City Rollers and it’s done by the Hamilton Juno award winning rock band “Monster Truck” tinyurl.com/ycy9292c . Rudy Blair Entertainment Media rudyblairmedia.com Chats...
Friday May 14th, 2021 He’s one of Canada’s premier actor, writer, producer and entertainment visionary’ who’s many films including “Breakaway” https://tinyurl.com/dy5wshss (Breakaway is now on Netflix), “Dr. Cabbie” https://tinyurl.com/4sw5u2tf (Dr.Cabbie can be seen on CBC Gem) & “Little Italy” https://tinyurl.com/bs8a4y7a (Little Italy can be seen on Netflix) have represented Canadian culture and entertained families around...
Monday April 29th, 2019 The broadcast (on CBC) of the 2019 Canadian Screen Awards https://www.academy.ca/nominees/ took place Sunday March 31st, 2019 at Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts www.sonycentre.ca/ . The Canadian Screen Awards honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production. This years winners included The CBC series “Anne with...
Tuesday October 5th, 2021 A film about a High school boys basketball team who are about to play the most low-stakes game of their lives and starring Kim’s Convenience breakout star Andrew Phung is launching on VOD by Game Theory Films today (October 5, 2021) . Rudy Blair Entertainment Media rudyblairmedia.com speaks with Calgary Writer/Director...
Tuesday December 10th, 2019 (This Interview is also on SoundCloud https://tinyurl.com/vyfgwf8 ) Vancouver based Pop artist Mathew V https://tinyurl.com/unzbtfohas released a new single “Stay By You” https://tinyurl.com/uknaxob(604 Records) http://www.604records.com/website/ . recently he was on a Canadian tour with headliner Juno nominee Ria May https://www.riamae.com and during this busy schedule spoke with rudyblairmedia.com about his music...
Tuesday October 30th, 2018 (This Interview was recorded at Jasper Dandy https://jasperdandy.ca/ the all-day pub, sports bar and weekend live music venue located at 725 Queen St E, Toronto, ON M4M 1H1 (647) 343-1698 . One of the most prestigious artist development programs in Canada is the Allan Slaight JUNO Master Class https://www.junomasterclass.ca/ ...
Thursday May 2nd, 2019 (This Interview is also on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/rudy-blair/chat-w-jim-norris-on-canadian) One of Canada’s leading music publications for musicians and music industry professionals, Canadian Musician Magazine canadianmusician.com/ recently celebrated it’s 40th Anniversary with a party at Toronto’s Grace O’Malley’s (14 Duncan St,) www.gracies.ca/ . Some of the celebrities who attended included The Trews’ Colin...
Wednesday March 15th, 2018 This Canadian recording artist has performed with some of the biggest artist in Jazz music including Sting, Diana Krall, Chris Botti and Paula Cole. “Laila Biali” http://lailabiali.com has released a new self titled album. Rudy Blair Entertainment Media rudyblairmedia.com Chats with the Juno award nominee about balancing family life with...
