HALIFAX — Female singer-songwriters reigned at this year’s East Coast Music Awards gala Thursday, including a P.E.I. artist rewarded for an intimate music video detailing her heartbreaking story of adolescent rape. Hosted by actor Jonathan Torrens, the 30th annual East Coast Music Awards show featured performances from Cape Breton’s Port Cities, rapper Classified of Enfield, N.S., Halifax electronic pop group Neon Dreams and Cape Breton darlings The Barra MacNeils. Work is underway to include the music video for “Microphone” in P.E.I.’s Grade 9 health curriculum about sexual assault. The East Coast Music Association is a regional collaboration of people in the music industry to foster, develop and celebrate East Coast music and its artists.

Source: National Post May 04, 2018 01:35 UTC