ECMA 2011 Music Awards Additional

Encompassing an industry conference, an awards show, showcases, and more, East Coast Music Week celebrates the best and brightest musical talent in Atlantic Canada. Attended by more than 2,500 industry representatives and performers, music week will take place in Charlottetown, PE from April 13 to 17.



ECMA is giving awards in a variety of additional categories, ranging from Francophone Recording of the Year to Aboriginal Recording of the Year and DVD of the year./n/nThis five-day music and industry extravaganza will take the city by storm.

Artists may use this page to submit for the 2011 East Coast Music Week awards listed below. Artists interested in submitting for other award or showcasing categories click here.

To apply for the following awards, select the submit button to the right:

• Aboriginal Recording of the Year


• DVD of the Year


• FACTOR Recording of the Year


• Fan's Choice Entertainer of the Year


• Fan's Choice Video of the Year


• Female Solo Recording of the Year


• Francophone Recording of the Year/Enregistrement francophone de l'année


• Group Recording of the Year


• Instrumental Recording of the Year


• Male Solo Recording of the Year


• Rap/Hip-Hop Single Track Recording of the Year


• R&B/Soul Single Track Recording of the Year


• Rising Star Recording of the Year


• Single of the Year


• SOCAN Songwriter of the Year

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Please note that there are different requirements for each award. These will be laid out during the application process after you hit the Submit button and before your submission is finalized. For full details on the awards and stages submission process, and for a copy of the 2011 Awards & Stages Booklet, visit www.ecma.com. You can also request a copy by contacting ecma@ecma.com. If you have any technical questions about the online application, please contact the Sonicbids Community Team at www.sonicbids.com/support.

More About the East Coast Music Week:

Encompassing an industry conference, an awards show, a wide array of showing stages, a host community that embraces the event and a spotlight on local, national and international recording artists, East Coast Music Week celebrates the best and brightest musical talent in Atlantic Canada.

Attended by more than 2,500 industry representatives and performers, the event has grown from a one-day event hosted in a Halifax bar, to a forum that has helped to promote many of Atlantic Canada’s artists to national and international presenters and buyers.

Throughout East Coast Music Week, there are a wide range of awards and showcase opportunities and this is your chance to submit for 2011. For full details on each opportunity including prices, criteria, eligibility etc, please click on the listing(s) of your choice on the landing page. You may submit to more than one award category providing you meet the specific criteria for each.

Accolades and Applause for East Coast Music Week

• “If you are on the East Coast of Canada - The ECMA's are top notch. They're a really forward moving group and I've honestly found that they want to work with artists and mold their organization to be exactly what their artists want it to be. In 2009 I had several suggestions that I wanted to see happen - and for the 2010 ECMAs - they adopted a lot of what we wanted (in our case - bringing delegates that catered to the punk / metal community) Top Notch Festival / Group" - The Motorleague


• “ECMA 2010 was the most important event to date and incredibly important for my development of the music industry as a career choice and advancement of opportunities for my artists. Between relationship building, Kim's profile and success, and the leg work we had done in the year prior, we came out of the conference with at least a year's worth of follow up to do. Thanks again for all your work and for running an incredibly power-packed Domestic & International industry conference”. - Adam Lomas, Management (Kim Wempe, Carmel Mikol), NS



• “Wow...I hope you've managed to catch up on some sleep and have recovered OK. What a week! I just wanted to sincerely thank you for everything you did to make my ECMA experience so enjoyable. The music was fantastic and you could not have been more thoughtful and considerate. I wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your hospitality and hard work. I have enough material to put together an hour ECMA special within my Radio 2 program this Saturday night (from the various compilations etc). - Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2 (England, UK)



• “Created as a device to enhance export capacity and build cultural collaborations between Canadian and Australia artists, The Sydney Meets Sydney partnership exceeded the expectations of all involved. Not only were two fantastic original songs written by the talented participating artists, but the relationships that were established amongst the peripheral networks of management/labels will go a long way towards potential success in the respective markets. We are all now looking forward to June and hosting the East Coast artists in Sydney, Australia as part of Song Summit 2010, where the opportunities and outcomes from the partnership will continue to expose themselves." - Millie Millgate, APRA/ AMCOS (Australia)