Weaves
2016-2017 Annual Report feature
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As musicians who have had the amazing opportunity to travel around the world playing our music we’re extremely appreciative of the funding available to artists in Canada.
We come from the DIY, grassroots community in Toronto and, were fortunate enough to receive some attention after our first EP was released on Buzz Records, becoming one of Rolling Stone‘s Bands to Watch and playing at Glastonbury within our first year as a band.
Releasing our debut album and subsequently touring for over a year would not have been sustainable without the help of the FACTOR funding we received.
We are forever grateful to come from a country that supports their artists and believes our creativity helps build diversity and culture.
The Juried Sound Recording funding allowed us to build upon our unique sound, strive for better production in the studio and hire fellow Canadian creatives to engineer and art direct our next album, which has been an amazing privilege.
Funding allows Canadian artists the ability to have freedom within their creativity that has in turn created international buzz about the talent in this country.
Photo Credit: Brendan George Ko