Charlie Simpson got to meet Jerry Granelli after learning to play songs from A Charlie Brown Christmas and then is interviewed about it on CBC Radio Halifax. Phlis McGregor interviews, Jerry West produces.

Charlie And Jerry

Music Nova Scotia hosted a town hall to generate constructive conversation about gender issues in the music industry. The goal was to work towards collective solutions to overcome roadblocks and challenges.

It was not just about airing grievances, but identifying and acknowledging common gender issues within the local music industry, using real-life scenarios to propose action or change and offering support to each other moving forward.

On the panel: 
Gianna Lauren - CKDU Station Coordinator, Artist
Laura "Lulu” Healy - Artistic Director Halifax Jazz Festival
Meaghan Smith - Artist
Samm Splash - Artist
Heather Gibson - Executive Director of Halifax Jazz Festival, Artistic Producer of In the Dead of Winter Festival and manager of Amelia Curran, co-owner of The Company House
Andria Wilson - Operations Manager, East Coast Music Association
Moderator: Laura Simpson, Program Officer, Music Nova Scotia

For more information: www.musicnovascotia.ca

Women in the Music Business Panel - Music Nova Scotia - Halifax

CAMP, part off-grid business conference and part camp for creative adults, takes place in Big Bear, California. CAMPers take part in business workshops and creative craft classes, listen to inspirational speakers, and face outdoor challenges to stimulate all senses.

This interview series is about CAMP, it’s effect and the people who experienced it, (including me!) 

The first subject is Kevin Hainline, astronomer and post-doctoral researcher from the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona.

Go to theuniquecamp.com for more information.
Go to makedocamp.ca - a camp in Canada inspired by the Californian CAMP


Kevin Hainline, Astronomer At CAMP

CAMP, a one part off-grid business conference and the other part camp for creative adults, takes place in Big Bear, California. CAMPers take part in business workshops and creative craft classes, listen to inspirational speakers, and face outdoor challenges to stimulate all senses.

This two-part interview series is about CAMP, it’s effect and the people who experienced it, (including me!) 

The second subject is Carl Andrews, Innovation Lead at Rolls Royce.

For more information, go to theuniquecamp.com
Go to makedocamp.ca - a camp in Canada inspired by the Californian CAMP


Carl Andrews - CAMP

Imagine, in today's world of being connected in multiple ways at nearly every hour of the day, going to a business conference where you are asked to turn off your electronics and turn in your mobile for four days. This is exactly what hundreds of attendees have been doing at Unique CAMP, a retreat of sorts for entrepreneurs, creatives and those yearning to return to simpler times. Held in the mountains, two hours east of Los Angeles, campers take part in business workshops and creative craft classes, listen to inspirational speakers and face outdoor challenges. The Syrup Factory's Laura Simpson captured the moment the phones were turned over and how entrepreneurs managed the unplugged life.

Originally broadcast on November 18, 2015 https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-entrepreneurs/214/

For more information about the California camp, check out theuniquecamp.com
For more information about the Canadian camp, check out makedocamp.ca

Unplugging for four days and going to camp

Sheldon MacLeod of News 95.7 Halifax (http://www.news957.com/the-sheldon-macleod-show/) interviews Laura Simpson, Founder and Director of Make.Do.Camp. about the call for workshop leaders. Aired February 17, 2017 

Make.Do.Camp. will be held September 7-10, 2017 in Big Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada
Camp is for everyone. Camp is for you.

Make.Do.Camp. takes the grown-up camp model and combines it with professional development to result in a work retreat that will allow participants for deep reflection and problem solving, with full access to expert leaders in diverse fields.

You will be bussed from Halifax, Nova Scotia into a YMCA camp in the woods on the northeastern shore. You will enter a world of no phones, no internet and no booze and live in a cabin with other campers. You will have full access to the hiking trails, high ropes course, zip line, climbing trees, archery and canoeing. You will have teachers who will lead yoga and meditation, as well as an on-site therapist. Your food will be wholesome, made from scratch and customized for your needs.
The schedule includes high-level workshops, recreation and socials. And you can always find the time and space to just be alone. You will make friends and memories that you’ll have forever. You will go back to your life feeling refreshed and inspired.

Tired of making do? Try Make.Do.Camp.

Website: makedocamp.com
Email: info @ makedocamp.com
Twitter: @make_do_camp
Instagram: make.do.camp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/make.do.camp.
Sign up for the mailing list: http://eepurl.com/bWY70L

Sheldon MacLeod Show Feb 17, 2017 - Laura Simpson - Make.Do.Camp.

This interview is from the Music Nova Scotia Back Home podcast from April 2015, when then-host Laura Simpson interviewed Adam Baldwin, who was friends and bandmates with Jay Smith. Jay took his own life while on tour with Matt Mays in 2013. Adam offers an honest perspective of what life is like for artists on tour, challenged with mental health issues and addictions. Please contact http://unisonfund.ca/ if you are in the music industry and need help. Please contact https://suicideprevention.ca/ if you are having any dark thoughts and need someone to talk to. There is only one you. You are enough. You matter to this world.

Adam Baldwin On Jay Smith W Laura Simpson - April 2015 - Back Home - MNS Podcast -

Music Nova Scotia's Funding Program Officer Laura Simpson stays up all night on the last day of Nova Scotia Music Week 2012 at White Point Beach Resort, Nova Scotia to deliver Don Connolly and Information Morning the full report.

Laura Simpson

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