He's that kid we all know. The one who teaches himself Wonderwall on the guitar so he can impress his high school friends. But turns out we don't really know him at all. Because when he graduates real life shows up. He moves to LA. Wakes up. Gets inspired. Gets his heart broken. Grows up in a hurry. Discovers Hendrix, The Weeknd and the blues. Gets soaked in a barrel of bourbon and Sam Drysdale the musician is born. Velvet grit. Urban surfer. Undefinable yet true to the bone.
Sam Drysdale is Toronto bred with time in Nashville and LA colouring the mix. A world- traveling musical anomaly fusing urban blues with hip hop, R&B with a modern pop sensibility; a singer-songwriter with a voice to stop you in your tracks. Sam Cooke, John Mayer, The Weeknd, Adele, Johnny Cash... you'll find flashes of them all in Sam's music.
Anomaly yes, and that is what makes Sam so unique. He is a neon-lit west ender who loves Hawaiian shirts and combat boots. Raw and honest, surprising and evocative. Ditching cliches and bringing on the truth in all its mysterious glory. Meet Sam Drysdale.

Jillea has 22 tattoos, 11 piercings and black hair but the music she produces isn’t roll-in-the-glass punk rock or head-banging hard rock. The 21-year-old small town gal with the city edge only stomps on clichés and stereotypes. She creates an urban-tinged pop that has a gentleness and vulnerability with a killer emotive voice.

“It’s my favourite thing…for people to look at me and hear the acoustic version of ‘Bottles,’ which is the most beautiful piano-vocal ever and they’re like, ‘Did that come from you?’ ‘Yeah it did.’” 

Jillea — who won Slaight Music’s 2013 It’s Your Shot songwriting and artist development competition with her heart-wrenching rhythmic-ballad “Shattered” — is now in Toronto co-writing an EP with co-producer Adam Alexander (Shawn Desman, Mia Martina) and New Royale’s Liz Rodrigues (Eminem, Dr Dre, Pink) and recording it with producer Andrew “Marty” Martino of gold-selling rap-rock group Down With Webster.

“We all work so well together; I haven’t even stepped outside of that circle,” says Jillea. 

The feisty tell-off “Miss America” is what Jillea stands for, a lyric that declares she’s not a covergirl that can be changed and molded, while in the string-enforced “Goddess” she demands to be treated well. It’s something different for the girl who says she always comes in second place in love, losing out to someone else, which is the subject of “Shattered.”

“I like to show every side of me in my music,” Jillea explains. “So there is a confident side, a cockiness, just as there is to everybody and that comes through in ‘Goddess,’ but some of my songs are more emotional and vulnerable. When someone listens to my album, I want to hit every feeling that they might have.”

Jillea had only just relocated to Toronto, living out of boxes, when she began writing these songs. She grew up in Quispamsis, New Brunswick, a town of 18,000, just outside Saint John on the East Coast of Canada, with “lots of water and trees and nature,” she says. But she always felt big city, just like her mom, a successful (and tattooed) interior designer, whose own mom had put her on a bus at age 16 to a bigger city to pursue her dreams. 

Jillea knew she could sing at age 3. Her mother tells her she tearfully confessed one day, expecting to get in trouble because she had said she was in her room playing with Barbie dolls when really she was singing. “I don’t want you to be mad at me, but I can sing. I can really sing,” the little girl had said. Her uncle also recalled that at 5 she would sing nursery rhymes in perfect key. 

“He always told my mom, ‘She’s gonna be a singer.’ So it never left my head,” says Jillea. 

“But where I’m from, everyone’s first reaction to having big dreams is ‘No.’ Everything is ‘No, no, no. You can’t do that.’ “Because of the type of music that I sing  — R&B, pop alternative — it was very foreign. It was like I was an alien to everybody back home. All my friends’ parents thought I was nuts because I dropped out of university when I won the contest and moved to Toronto.”

It’s Your Shot was the first contest Jillea ever won. “Even back home doing Saint John Idol on the boardwalk on Tuesday nights, I never even won any of that shit ever. Ever,” she says.

Now, she’s validated — and big city. And hearing yes, yes, yes. 

“To me, the most charming thing about music is when you see something or hear something unexpected,” Jillea says. “I love the fact that my image and my sound don’t make sense because it makes people question what does make sense and then it tests the boundaries of what’s acceptable. 
“I don’t like being predictable. I love the unexpected. I love when people look at someone and are like, ‘Why are they that way?’ That’s when my job is done. That’s exactly what I want people to be like – ‘Who is Jillea?’ That is the point of what I do.”

Founded in 1983, Camp Oochigeas (Ooch) has been providing magical camp experiences for children with and affected by childhood cancer. Camp Ooch is much more than a summer camp. Camp Ooch also offers year-round programs for children with and affected by childhood cancer in Muskoka, at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), various other cancer centres across Ontario, and Ooch Downtown in the heart of Toronto. Ooch is the only residential camp in Canada to offer onsite chemotherapy IV treatment and blood transfusions. Through these programs, Camp Oochigeas provides fun and meaningful experiences to approximately 1000 children affected by cancer each year, at no cost to their families. This is all made possible by the generous support of donors and volunteers. 

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Singer-songwriter Tomi Swick is a Hamilton native who was recognized for his debut album "Stalled out in the Doorway" in 2007 by winning the juno for best new artist and a nomination for pop record of the year as well as 2 Canadian radio music awards, the Socan A/C songwriting award and multiple Hamilton music awards.  

A Warner/Chappell Publishing recording artist, Tomi spent four months in London England where he recorded his second album with top British producer Chris Potter of Verve / Richard Ashcroft Acclaim as well as many others.  This self titled record " Tomi Swick" was released on Warner Music Canada in 2012. Tomi has written, toured and played with many great bands and artists such as Julian Lennon, The Barenaked Ladies, The Goo Goo Dolls, Stabilo, Collective Soul, Tom Cochrane, Tom Wilson, Sam Roberts, Big Wreck, Feist , Jeremy Fisher, Blue Rodeo, Ron Sexsmith etc.... A record in collaboration with Slaight Music titled “ The Yukon Motel” was released 2016 to great reviews and a spot on the polaris prize long list. more music is coming …

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Not a revivalist, but a musical revisionist, Julian Taylor masterfully re-combines and updates the vintage sounds that inspired him, to create bold, innovative songs.  

Taylor, of both West Indian and Native Canadian decent, is a charismatic frontman, prolific songwriter, and endearing individual – the kind who immediately connects and makes you feel at ease. That character of warmth and generosity permeates everything Taylor does. A calm, somewhat self-effacing person offstage, Taylor morphs into an intense, incendiary and almost shamanistic presence onstage. Toronto poet Robert Priest describes him as “the kind of artist forever in the zone, the voice limitless, the songs full of feeling and memorable hooks.”

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