HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN REGGAE MUSIC ASSOCIATION
The Canadian Reggae Music Association is a non-profit organization based in Toronto
but was incorporated in Canada in May 2020. The CRMA consists of a group of music
businesses, festival promoters, reggae producers, professional/emerging artists, and
musicians with over 40 years of experience working in the reggae music community in
Canada. The CRMA’s membership consists of professional artists, musicians and
business owners from Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal,
Toronto, Niagara Falls and Halifax.
MANDATE
The Canadian Reggae Music Association’s mandate is to educate and inform
professional musicians and artists about the business of the music thus enabling them
to earn an income from their music while contributing to the music industry in Canada.
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the Canadian Reggae Music Association are as follows:
To produce an annual reggae music conference featuring artists and musicians from the reggae community in Canada.
To organize and implement reggae boot camps and artist development workshops for emerging artists in Canada.
To set up skill training workshops to equip artists with marketable skills in the areas of music, song writing, audio video production and grant writing.
To produce resource materials such as the Reggae Page directory and digital magazine featuring reggae artists from various Canadian cities.
To produce an internet media house in the areas of television, radio broadcasting, newspaper and magazine.
To create job opportunities for professional and emerging artists in the Canadian, African and Caribbean communities. To organize and develop cultural, educational and social programs using multi-media as tools to sensitize the society to the serious social problems afflicting artists in the community.
