Canada: The Arts Scene: Music in the City

CANADA: THE ARTS SCENE
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One of the things I would do about music in Toronto to make it a more liveable, resilient, happy, and healthy city would be to increase the number of music venues. While Toronto boasts of being home to the world's most culturally diverse population, its music scene fails to reflect the same diversity concerning several festivals, concerts, venues, and performing arts centers. Increasing the number of social spaces promoting multicultural music will allow marginalized communities to showcase their music and cultural identity. The municipal council of Toronto needs to create more venues for local creators across all genres and cultures by availing city spaces in town halls and community centers as performance spaces. Finding locations to hold multicultural performances can be cost-prohibitive for community groups and upcoming artists. Therefore, the City of Toronto and potential partners can consider using underutilized spaces for performances.[Canadian Live Music Association, “Dark Days for Toronto’s Live Music Venues: New Study Finds Venues at Risk of Business Failure,” , 2020, /news-releases/dark-days-for-toronto-s-live-music-venues-new-study-finds-venues-at-risk-of-business-failure-854827154.html.]
These spaces must be accessible throughout Toronto to generate the following required to support local communities of musicians. Some of the societal actors I would push the City to consider partnering with include Catholic District School Boards, Business Improvement Areas (BIAs), and commercial businesses offering unused spaces for various cultural music events. The second thing I would do to make Toronto a more lively music landscape is to expand the capacity of financial programs at the provincial and federal levels to provide the much-needed funds needed to support the music industry. Due to the high level of competition, existing financial programs tend to be project-specific and challenging for upcoming artists to access. Currently, the demand for these financial programs exceeds what the City is giving, thereby placing a huge financial burden on emerging artists, who require financial support to pay for studio space and even sustain themselves and their music projects.[Ibid.]
If I had the power, I would compel the City of Toronto to back its commitment to improving its music scene by increasing the number of funds it allocates to public-sector music funding programs. I would also abolish the restrictive funding requirements to support unestablished artists at different stages of their careers. Pivotal projects occur at different stages of an artist's career, and therefore eliminating the existing constricting funding conditions is pivotal. The third thing I would do to improve Toronto's music hub is revitalize the business of music: promoting the music business sector will not only increase the revenue generated from music stores, record labels, recording facilities, radio stations, and other entities but will also provide more platforms for emerging and multi-ethnic artists to present their music and earn more revenue. I would ensure that all new bylaws and regulations consider the needs of the music community and that all potenti...