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We are pleased to launch the CityArts Rock Band Program for 2011/2012. The details are as follows:

Join a Rock Band! Jam! Have Fun! Play Live in Concert!

Developed out of our industry leading CityArts Summer Rock Camp program, the CityArts Rock Band program takes the Rock Camp experience into a year round program. Each summer, kids through Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe have come to the CityArts Toronto Rock Camp. CityArts Rock Band is your chance to Keep On Rocking throughout the year!

Taught in several seasons throughout the year, CityArts Rock Band is a multiple week program with a focus on collaboration, self improvement, and fun. Kids aged 10 through 17 learn to play effectively within a band concept, collaborate with other musicians and gain confidence playing Live in Concert.

The CityArts Rock Band program allows aspiring Rock Stars from 10 to 17 years of age to:

• Join a Rock Band during our Year Round Programs!
• Play Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums or Sing Vocals for your Rock Band!
• Compose an Original Song or Learn your Favorite Song as a Band!
• Jam with your peers and members of other bands!
• Receive Instruction in your chosen Instrument from Professional Musicians and Experienced Teachers during Weekly Practice Sessions and Lessons!
• Perform your Songs Live in Concert at the end of the season!

The focus is on fun and collaboration and on getting your band ready for a Live Concert Performance.

Dates and Details:

Season 1: October 28, 2011 through Dec 16, 2011

Season 2: January 14, 2012 through March 2, 2012

Season 3: March 23, 2012 through May 18, 2012

Number of Weeks: 8 Weeks per Season. One Session per Week!

Session Duration: 90 to 120* minutes per Session. Some sessions will be extended for Jams & Clinics.

Ages & Experience: 10 to 17 years of Age with a minimum six months experience on your instrument recommended.

Program Cost: Only $200.00 per Season!

Riverdale Location: 833 Broadview Avenue near Danforth Avenue

A short 2 minute walk north of the Broadview Subway Station.

Registration and Information: CityArts.ca

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Each year CityArts grants scholarships and bursaries to kids from 11 to 17 years of age to the Summer edition of Canada’s Biggest and Best Rock Camp.

For 2011, we are, once again, creating a special number of full one-week scholarships for kids from the St. James Town and Regents Park neighborhoods in Toronto. Twenty kids have attended the CityArts Toronto Rock Camp from these designated priority neighborhoods in 2010 alone.

For more information, visit: http://www.cityarts.ca and http://rockcamp.ca

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We are very pleased to announce that CityArts will exhibit a series of photographs at Jet Fuel Coffee during the entire month of May 2011. The exhibit will feature photographs taken at CityArts programs, including the Rock Camp photographs taken by our talented young photographer Devin Dubeau. Join us for a month long exhibition this May (coinciding with the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival).

We are proud to announce that we are scheduled to record at Metalworks Studios. One of Canada’s premier facilities.

CityArts grants scholarships to its programs on a social needs basis.  During the summer of 2010, twenty five children attended the CityArts Toronto Rock Camp on full scholarship.  Please consider supporting our scholarship program by donating or participating in our 2011 Rock Camp Donation Drive.

Fund a Program!  Make a Difference!

http://rockcamp.ca/donate/index.html

In addition to the scholarships that will be fund from the proceeds of the donations, we will also grant one our scholarship gift certificates to three parties who participate in the Rock Camp Contest Donation Drive. Gift certificates can be directed to a program or a child on your behalf by CityArts.

Scholarship 1:  1 Week of Summer 2011 CityArts Rock Camp ($495.00 Value)

Scholarship 2:  1 CityArts Gift Certificate ($250 Value)

Scholarship 3:  1 CityArts Gift Certicate ($100 Value)

Donation Drive No. 1 closes on February 1, 2011!  Scholarship Gift Certificates will be announced on that date.

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We are very pleased to announce that Brian Moncarz will be joining CityArts as the Producer / Engineer of the innovative Rock Band Plus+ program.  Brian is uniquely positioned and qualified to work with serious young musicians, sharing our vision and desire to develop industry leading creative learning programs in music.  Brian will guide the Rock Band Plus+ bands as they prepare for recording in some of Canada’s leading recording studios and oversee the recording of the EP/CD.

“Brian is one of the hottest young producer/engineers around.” Bob Ezrin (Producer, Pink Floyd, Kiss, Jane’s Addiction)

“I’ve been working with Brian Moncarz for the last several years. He is a top class engineer and producer and is always able to put musicians at ease. It is always my intention to encourage musicians to feel that they are doing their best work and Brian is always supportive of this and remains calm even during the most stressful of sessions. We’ve had such a productive working relationship that when I felt it was time to open a studio and needed a partner, my obvious choice was Brian.” David Bottrill (Producer, Tool, Peter Gabriel, Silverchair).

Rock Band Plus+ is an innovative 32 week program which takes talented young musicians to the next level with intensive instruction from leading industry professionals, a series of concerts, photo and music video sessions, all leading up to the recording of a EP/CD in some of Canada’s best studios.  To learn more about CityArts Rock Band programs visit http://www.rockcamp.ca.

About Brian Moncarz:

“Even before I could walk, my dad taught me how to put a record on the record player,” says Brian Moncarz, Toronto-based producer/engineer. Music has been an ingrained part of his life since he was young, and his passion for sound has led Moncarz to work with artists from Moneen (Dine Alone/Vagrant) and The Junction (Universal Music) to Kyle Riabko (Aware/Columbia), Silverstein (Victory Records), Pilot Speed (Maple Music), Rise Electric (featuring Lukas Rossi, EMI Publishing) and most recently, Circa Survive (Atlantic Records).

“Brian is one of the hottest young producer/engineers around.” Bob Ezrin (Producer, Pink Floyd, Kiss, Jane’s Addiction)

In high school, Moncarz was intrigued by the recording process. “I played in lots of bands when I was growing up and… I was always the band member that would be heavily involved with the recording of our demos.  It was just a natural progression from guitarist/musician to producer/engineer.”

After completing a degree in Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University, he began work as a freelance engineer in the Greater Toronto Area. A self-motivated entrepreneur, he opened his first studio in 2000 and began honing his skills with an attitude characterized by humour, calmness and attentiveness in the studio. Moncarz explains, “In order to keep bands inspired, I feel it’s important to maintain a fun and creative atmosphere… while always staying focused on working hard. Recording a song or an album takes time. Why shouldn’t we have a great time doing it?”

And while his self-taught engineering style forced Moncarz to learn quickly, it wasn’t until 2005 that he found a mentor in legendary producer, Bob Ezrin. “

[Ezrin] taught me how to listen,” Moncarz says, “He especially helped me with mixing and really tuned my ears to hear tones.”

That experience was put to good use in 2007, when Moncarz was hired to produce The Junction’s debut album for Universal Music.  The album’s first single, Components of Four, was quickly picked up by rock radio stations across Canada, and reached top 10 at 102.1 The Edge in Toronto.

Ezrin also introduced Moncarz to producer David Bottrill (Peter Gabriel, Tool, Silverchair), with whom a friendship quickly developed. After working together on an EP for We Are The Take.  he and Bottrill banded together to open Rattlebox Studios in 2008.  Their first joint-effort was, fittingly, a co-production of Moneen’s The World I Want to Live Behind, which Exclaim! Magazine heralds as the band’s “watershed album”.

2009 was just as busy for Moncarz, both in and out of the studio. Most notably, he held post as engineer for Circa Survive’s forthcoming major label debut while attending to teaching duties at Ryerson University and the Metalworks Institute of Sound and Music production. He has also delved into the world of electronic business, as the president of online mixing website, eMixEngine.com.

And though Brian Moncarz has experienced success as an engineer, producer and e-business entrepreneur, he attributes it, first and foremost, to his passion and love for music.

“I’ve been working with Brian Moncarz for the last several years. He is a top class engineer and producer and is always able to put musicians at ease. It is always my intention to encourage musicians to feel that they are doing their best work and Brian is always supportive of this and remains calm even during the most stressful of sessions. We’ve had such a productive working relationship that when I felt it was time to open a studio and needed a partner, my obvious choice was Brian.” David Bottrill (Producer, Tool, Peter Gabriel, Silverchair)

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