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Tamale is for the 13 year old inside of me that felt like giving up until she found her guitar and tried to understand difficult truths. I am proud of her courage and the struggles we’ve faced to get here. I began to write it to understand me, now it’s yours: Available everywhere now

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The next deadline to submit applications to our Demo or Juried Sound Recording programs is this THURSDAY, JANUARY 28th at 11:59 PM PT (or 12:59 AM MT, 1:59 AM CT, 2:59 AM ET, 3:59 AM AT, or 4:29 AM NT on Friday).

We encourage you to check out the Resources for Applicants > Documents and Useful Tools section of the website for help with your project application. Especially helpful are the Juried Assessment Preparation Guide, which tells you what you need to include with your Demo and JSR applications, and our Marketing Plan Guide, which is useful for JSR applicants.

As always, our system will be running at capacity leading up to this deadline. Anticipate longer loading times! Avoid the crush and click "submit" on your applications before Thursday.

If you experience any glitches or technical issues, take a screenshot and get in touch with your PC for help.

Remember that you need both a rated artist profile and a rated applicant profile to create a new application. If you try to create a new project and you can't select any programs in the program dropdown menu, it means that one or both of your profiles are not yet rated. You'll have to submit your profile(s) for review to receive a rating, which will allow you to apply for the next deadline, which will be in late May. 

The industry gathered in Yarmouth to celebrate Nova Scotia’s homegrown talent at the Nova Scotia Music Week Awards this past weekend. 

We are proud to have supported these #FACTORfunded winners:

Web.com Entertainer of the Year Joel Plaskett

Solo Recording of the Year Mo Kenney - In My Dreams

Group Recording of the Year Gypsophilia - Night Swimming

Recording of the Year (Tie) Gabrielle Papillon - The Tempest of Old and Mo Kenney - In My Dreams

Music Video of the Year Mo Kenney - "Telephones" (Director: Nathan Boey)

Alternative Recording of the Year In-Flight Safety - Conversationalist

Digital Artist of the Year The Town Heroes

DJ of the Year Ryan Hemsworth

Electronic Artist of the Year Rich Aucoin

Folk Recording of the Year Jenn Grant - Compostela

Jazz Recording of the Year Gypsophilia - Night Swimming

Pop Recording of the Year Mo Kenney - In My Dreams

Educator of the Year Erin Costelo

Event of the Year Halifax Pop Explosion

The wait is over, and the long list of nominees for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize is finally here. We’re delighted to be sponsoring the Polaris Prize again. This year marks their tenth anniversary. Way to go, guys!

That being said, we’re even more excited by the diverse talent of the nominees, and thrilled to congratulate our #FACTORfunded Polaris hopefuls. FACTOR funding supported 21 of the 40 albums that made the long list. We also awarded funding to an additional 12 artists. That’s a really big slice of the long list pie - and we really like pie. And music.

On to the lists!

The following artists and labels received FACTOR funding to support their nominated album:

The Acorn, Vieux Loup (Paperbag Records)

Lydia Ainsworth, Right From Real (Arbutus Records)

ALVVAYS, ALVVAYS (Royal Mountain Records)

BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killa, Sour Soul (eOne Music Canada)

The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator (Secret City Records)

Braids, Deep In The Iris (Flemish Eye)

Steph Cameron, Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady (Pheromone Recordings)

Jennifer Castle, Pink City (Idee Fixe Records)

Cold Specks, Neuroplasticity (Arts & Crafts)

Frazey Ford, Indian Ocean (Nettwerk Productions)

Pierre Kwenders, Le Dernier Empereur Bantou (Bonsound)

Lee Harvey Osmond, Beautiful Scars (Latent Recordings)

METZ, II (Negative Space)

Milk & Bone, Little Mourning (Bonsound)

Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test (Pheromone Records)

Elizabeth Shepherd, The Signal (Linus Entertainment)

Siskiyou, Nervous (Constellation Records)

Viet Cong, Viet Cong (Flemish Eye)

The Weather Station, Loyalty (Outside Music)

White Horse, Leave No Bridge Unburned (Six Shooter Records)

Young Guv, Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland Records)

The following artists received past funding from FACTOR:

Absolutely Free

The Arkells

Rich Aucoin

Bahamas

Caribou

Death From Above 1979

B. A. Johnston

The New Pornographers

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufield

Patrick Watson

White Lung

We couldn’t be prouder to support Canadian musical talent, which is part of a thriving $47B per year cultural industry.

Can’t wait for the Polaris Short List announcement on July 16th at the Carlu in Toronto!