Kingston Musicians' Union

Join us this Sunday for a Spring Concert Two Thirds Down Under 3:00pm Sunday

Catch Sean Hully tonight at 8pm live

How the union has helped Canadian musicians throughout the pandemic, thanks to a coalition with three other unions representing 50,000 members.

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The Beatles...Ed Sullivan of course....a different angle

Some good news for our local! The City of Kingston is going to have a number of opportunities for live music this summer for singles, duos, and trios for concerts downtown. Please contact Sue, or me if you are wanting to play. Preference will be made for union members first. This is a great time to consider joining or rejoining the union. Benefits of joining include: We cover the liability insurance for live and streaming performances that is now required almost everywhere.... We will work with you to stream yourself or you and your band from your YouTube Channel / Facebook Page. We are offering Facebook Live concerts with ticketed attendance. You have a self-directed pension plan that you can control deductions, that is fully registered with the government of Canada. Once you pay for the first year; payments can be made monthly. See more

Join us on Thursday evening with Andy Forgie in concert. As a performer and songwriter Andy Forgie wears many hats: from a solo pub singer/guitarist to musical therapy for seniors, performances for the young and young at heart, and the lead singer of All You Need is Love and Photograph.

Join us tonight for a concert by Kingston's own Chris Murphy. He will be live at 7:30 PM. You can catch his concert right here!

Thursday evening January 21st at 7:30 PM, Tim Hallman a well-known musician from Gananoque, Ontario will be streaming an hour of live music. Pull up a chair or two and enjoy!

Enjoy Andy Forgie's concert of original music from his career as the lead singer of Photograph, children's entertainer, and solo artist.

Kingston Musicians Union launches second Streamed Series of Concerts. The Kingston Musicians Union has partnered with the Music Performance Trust Fund of New York to bring music back to the stage at the Royal Theatre in Gananoque. With 8 concerts planned the series began last week with Andy Forgie's performance streamed out on Facebook live from the Kingston Musicians Facebook page. Upcoming performances include: Turpin's Trail Friday 27th November @ 8:00 pm The Arrogant W...orms 6th December @ 7:00 pm The Dave Barton Trio 6th December @ 8:30 pm ZC Top Band 12th December @ 8:30 pm Christmas at the Royal 18th December @ 8:30 pm Christmas at the Royal Matinee 20th December @ 2:30 pm New Year's Eve 31st December beginning 9:00 pm Please join us in supporting our talented local musicians. We are currently offering competitive rates to potential sponsors who would be interested in advertising their businesses during this series and in turn help to support our musicians. Contact our Local office for details: [email protected] (613) 542 3732 See more

Some technical difficulties stand by: Don’t miss out! Concert from the Royal Theatre in less than 20 mins!

Big shout out to James Corden for his recognition of the musicians on his show last night! ICYMI, here's some of what he said: "I don't know if anybody at home... may have read that the amazing live musicians, who play on all of the different television shows across all of the networks, every network where you see a live group of musicians on TV, have come together to demand better terms for the work that they do. They are using the hashtag #RespectUs. And their union is asking for all of the networks, for better pay, better health-care benefits, better residuals for the shows that they appear in. And look, this show, music is a massive part of this show, and the real reason for that is that musicians have been a massive part of my life... I truly understand the joy that musicians work brings to all of these shows. And if you'll allow me, I just wanted to say to our band here, how much I absolutely love you so much and value the work that you do on our show and what you bring to the show is indescribable. You elevate everything that we do. And it's not just the music, it's your presence here on screen. You lift everyone here, every single day. And I can honestly say we would be lost without you. I would be distraught without you and I feel so lucky to see every night and watch this incredible group of musicians. We salute you and applaud you now and every single day." You can watch the clip here (at the 16minute mark): https://www.cbs.com//the-late-late-show-10-22-20-josh-gad/ Respect Us: Live TV Musicians The Late Late Show with James Corden

We are currently looking for businesses and individuals that would like to either sponsor, or advertise in one, or several of our live streaming concerts that will be live-streamed to the artist's Facebook page or YouTube channel. To help musicians survive this pandemic we have launched a streaming series to support our musicians and we are currently doing preproduction for a number of upcoming streaming concerts featuring Andy Forgie, the Arrogant Worms, CZ Top, a fantastic... ZZ Top tribute band, Turpin’s Trail, and the Dave Barton jazz trio. Concerts will be streamed in the upcoming weeks. We are also live-streaming a Christmas Concert (Christmas at the Royal) featuring Frayne McCarthy and Rob Bradizza, Val Kettner, Molly Lutha, Two Thirds Down Under, Jan and Mark Wilkins, and Kevin John Saylor; and a live New Year’s Eve show featuring Spencer Evans and many local and international artists. The concerts will be live-streamed from the stage at the Royal Theatre in Gananoque; They have created a very cool set to help showcase each artist. We stream with professional sound and lighting, and a 4 camera HD switching system. We also have the ability to insert promo materials and graphic overlays during each concert. We have found that over a six-month period, a well-produced streaming concert gathers thousands of views. Streaming concerts we have produced over the last couple of months include the Steam Punk Festival in Gananoque and the First Nations Performing Arts Festival of the Thousand Islands. Both of these events have had thousands of views, and thousands of engagements. On social media the key metric is engagement. If you sponsor or advertise on one of our streaming concerts, the concert could be linked to your social media business page or channel, in addition to the artist’s page. We also found that when people watch our concerts, they typically link the concert to their social media page and make comments and therefore will see your business name and advertisements. Check out our advertising rates and get in touch!! https://www.dropbox.com//streaming%20concerts%20-%20info%2

Reg Cory entertains the audience with folk and country favourites and lovely guitar picking courtesy of the Music Performance Trust Fund this afternoon.

A great read for freelancers.

Saxophonist Noah Abrahamse entertains residents courtesy of the Music Performance Trust Fund and the Kingston Musicians’ Union. This fund provides free concerts to the public while supporting local musicians with fair compensation.

Local movements can help make things better for club musicians.

Douglas Schalin performs classical music to appreciative listeners today. Another performance made possible by the Music Performance Trust Fund.

Don’t miss our next Streamed Performance this Thursday night

Tune in at 7:00 pm tonight as part of a regular Thursday series live from the Royal Theatre in Ganonoque.

Ancient Airs Duo performs Early Music and Celtic tunes for residents during lunch courtesy of the Music Performance Trust Fund. Pictured: Douglas Schalin and Tori Owen.

Mark Wilkins has turned the Royal into a modest TV studio for Cliff Edwards concert... on now!

Live Streamed concerts from the beautiful Thousand Islands