IN THE OF T - Atlantic Business Magazine

SeaAndBeScene BY STEPHANIE BEAUMONT
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Country on the Coast:
CCMA® Week 2015
The Canadian Country Music Association®
brought their annual celebration to Halifax, Nova
Scotia for the first time in 32 years on September
10 - 13, 2015. Upwards of 20,000 people attended
at least one of the CCMA® Week’s music festival,
industry conference and awards show events,
generating over 300 million media impressions.
That's a sweet country spotlight with big city
benefits: the estimated economic impact was
$3.5 million to the local economy. “It was a
pleasure working with the team at the Province of
Nova Scotia,” says CCMA® president Don Green.
“We know our Canadian Country Music Week
delegates thoroughly enjoyed their experience on
the East Coast.” Y’all come back now, ya hear!
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1. CCMA® president Don Green (far left), Halifax
Mayor Mike Savage, FX101.9 radio personality
Denyse Sibley and Nova Scotia’s Minister of
Communities, Culture and Heritage Tony Ince (far
right) join CCMA® artists for a line dance in
Parade Square to kick off Country Music Week.
2. New Castle, N.B. native Jason Barry accepts
the CCMA® award for Studio of the Year for his
Ontario-based Barrytone Studios.
3. Nova Scotia resident and Video of the Year
winner Dean Brody with Paul Brandt, meeting
and greeting fans at the Irving Oil FanFest. The
pair just wrapped their co-headlining
coast-to-coast Road Trip tour. 4. P.E.I. native and
CCMA® Rising Star nominee Tim Chaisson is
joined by New Brunswick's Joan Kennedy for the
CCMA® Legends show at the Rebecca Cohn
auditorium. 5. Music Counts team (l-r Mike
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Hurley, Vanessa Thomas, Noreen Eason, Marie
Desmarteau & Allan Reid) accept the 2015 Slaight
Music Humanitarian award in honour of their
efforts to recognize and support music education
(www.musiccounts.ca). 6. Johnny Reid with wife
Jennifer on the John Deere Green Carpet before
heading into the CCMA® Awards show to
perform and collect the 2015 Fan's Choice
Award. 7. The “first family” of Cape Breton,
Cookie, Heather and Jimmy Rankin presenting
the Group of the Year award. 8. Last Year's
CCMA® Rising Star award winner Tim Hicks
receiving his fourth gold record from RGK
Entertainment Group's Ron Kitchener at the
Cunard Centre during FanFest. 9. N.L. funny folks
Gemini award-winning Susan Kent (This Hour has
22 Minutes) and Jonny Harris (Murdoch Mysteries,
Still Standing) deliver the laughs prior to presenting.
10. 2015 CCMA® Interactive award winner Brett
Kissel interacts with the crush of fans awaiting his
arrival on the John Deere Green Carpet.
For more information, visit www.ccma.org;
follow them on Twitter @CCMAofficial.
Photo Credit: Grant Martin Photography
Stephanie Beaumont is the president, CEO and
creative director of Sea And Be Scene—an
entertainment-based magazine-style website
designed to celebrate the four Atlantic provinces.
She’s also the executive producer and host of
SEA AND BE SCENE TV, broadcasting on Bell
Aliant FibreOP’s TV1. Visit seaandbescene.com
and follow her on Twitter @SeaAndBeScene
Atlantic Business Magazine | November/December 2015
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