2010 REPORT TO THE COMMUNIT YMaking tracks in Canadas Cultural Scene

Roger Jackson, Board ChairCantos Music Foundation

Music is powerful. Music connects people. Music bridges differences by creating a common bond among strangers and friends. Music can heal individuals, communities, even nations. Music transcends religion, colour and creed to create a fundamental experience that continues to inspire us as it has from humanitys earliest days.

Cantos Music Foundation harnesses the power of music to make a real impact in the Calgary community and beyond. Whether were using music to connect an eight-year-old to the principles of sound and hearing or bringing joy and memories to seniors or providing a place for emerging artists to practise their craft, Cantos Music Foundation and the burgeoning National Music Centre vision practises the catalytic power of music every single day.

We invite you to have a look at the following pages to see how we impacted our community in 2010. As always, we encourage an open dialogue with our stakeholders - contact us any time!

Andrew Mosker, Executive DirectorCantos Music Foundation

Dr. Roger JacksonChair, Board of Directors

Andrew MoskerPresident and CEO

To create engaging music experiences for the community using our unique collection, our cultural spaces and our expertise.

Cantos is a national catalyst for discovery, innovation and renewal through music.Vision

Mission

This year saw the creation of some new programs and the retirement of some others as Cantos continues to build toward the vision of a National Music Centre.

Public ProgramsBlue Mondays All Ages Blues JamHoliday Themed ToursCantos Street SoundsCanadian Country Music Hall of FameCreative SpacesMusic@Noon@CantosFirst Thursday at CantosMusic and FilmPublic Tours

Seniors ProgramsCantos Seniors Music ExpressMusic MelangeChristmas All Through the Gallery

Recreation ProgramsMusic Fun 101First Thursday at Cantos

School ProgramsHome School DaysReel to Real (development only)Key ConceptsFrom the Red River to the Black Valley (with Alliance Francaise)Renaissance Program PilotCanada Music NationCanadian Communities Celebrate (with Ft. Calgary)Close EncountersCantos Music ExpressGood Vibrations (Full day + Half day)Pipe! Pipe! Hooray!Parlour Music 1905 (with Lougheed House)History of Rock and Roll TourToggles, Triggers and Tracks

Through education programs: 6,058 Through public programs: 11,549

Programs at a Glance

Audience Reach

Children explore the science of hearing and sound in Good Vibrations

Your Song: Calgary ArtistsSalute Elton JohnAs Elton fever hit Calgary in October with Alberta Ballets production of Love Lies Bleeding a performance built around the work of Elton John Cantos kicked things off with a showcase of Calgarys best covering Eltons best.

Featuring diverse artists from multiple genres, this showcase delivered treasured early John/Taupin songs composed on the Elton John Songwriting Piano, which is part of the world renowned Cantos Music Collection.

Featured performers included:

Cabaret-queen Onalea Gilbertson with composer Dave Pierce.

Grammy-Award winner Donald Ray Johnson with John Leimseider

Soul siren Lynn Oladundoye with Chris Maric

Award-winning jazz bass man Simon Fisk with Sheldon Zandboer

Innovative country crooner Matt Masters with Earl McCauley and the Traveling Mabels

The ever-surprising Kris Demeanor with Anne Loree

Eclectic recording artist Jay Crocker with visual artist Joe Kelly

Each of the artists offered their insight on how they chose their particular song and their experience of Elton Johns music.

Cantos also featured the Ghost of 100 Songs Exhibit at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium during the run of Love Lies Bleeding.

Cantos offered several new school programs in 2010 including a revised version of its popular grade two program Canada: Music Nation. In helping to tell Canadas National Music story, Grade Two students discovered how the unique geography of our land has informed the musical heritage of the Inuit, the Acadians and the prairie cowboys of Alberta.

The programming team also developed a new program and a re-vamp of an existing one to broaden our offering to teens and adults.

The History of Rock and Roll tour puts the socio-political landscape of the 50s - 80s in a musical context through our instruments and memorabilia. The tour-based program takes participants through the major events and developments over the last half of the 20th

Century telling the stories through the music of the day. The program is linked to the Social Studies curriculum of junior and senior high students and provides a unique look at history and pop culture for anyone interested in music.

Toggles, Triggers and Tracks is a program focused on the technological development of electronic instrumentsfromtheveryfirstThereminthroughto modern computer-based sound synthesis. Linked to the science curriculum of junior and senior high students, this program features face time with our in-house electronics technicians who talk about their work and opportunities in the technology side of the music business. Anyone interested in electronics, synthesis and the science of sound will want to participate in this unique program.

New Programming Targets Teens and Telling Canadas National Music Story

Toggles, Triggers and Tracks is a program focused on the technological development of electronic instrumentsfromtheveryfirstThereminthroughtomoderncomputer-basedsoundsynthesis.

Reel to Real

Cantos Music Foundation is pleased to have received support from The Calgary Foundations Community Grants Program, the Rozsa Foundation, the Arthur JE Child Foundation and the Harry & Martha Cohen Foundation for the development of our next school program offering, Reel to Real. This groundbreaking program, inspired by our Kimball Theatre Organ, integrates filmand music with Grades 4-6 Social Studies curriculum to engage students in the productionandscoringofasilentfilm.

The goal of this program is to illuminate the role music plays in our daily lives and how, within the context of a movie scene, music helps to define our emotions and impactour thinking. By creating a movie scene,

students will not only make connections between the real-life relevancy of their social studies units and develop their skills in language arts and drama, they will also compose and record their own unique musical score. In addition, Reel to Real connects old technology to new, as students create movie soundtracks that incorporate traditional sounds of the theatre organ with iPod Touch technology.

The program also fostered a unique collaboration with SAIT students who recorded the sounds of our 1924 Kimball Theatre Organ for the software (created by soma creates). This was a work experience/ practicum project for SAIT and allows the software to use the authentic sounds of the Kimball thereby preserving the Kimball as well.

Students testing out the iPad technology behind Reel to Real

Blue Mondays All Ages Blues Jam brought some A-Listers and luminaries to the Cantos stage including Sam Lay and Gloria Jones as well as providing a venue for all ages and veteran musicians to learn, teach and perform.

The legendary blues drummer Sam Lay has worked with the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf and Bob Dylan and can be heard on more than 40 Chess Records recordings performing hisgroundbreaking,inimitabledoubleshuffle.

On February 22, Sam delivered a talk on his career and his time at the King Eddy in a presentation in cooperation with the Blues Historical Society of Canada. Then, he hosted the all ages blues jam!

Blue Mondays Unites Luminaries, Vetrans and Novice Players

Gloria wrote for such artists as Gladys Knight & the Pips, Commodores, The Four Tops and The Jackson 5. Songs that Gloria worked on during this period include The Supremes Have I Lost You, Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross My Mistake, Junior Walkers I Aint Goin Nowhere and the Four Tops Just Seven Numbers. The most remembered song that Jones penned was Gladys Knight and the Pips If I Were Your Woman, which was nominated for a Grammy in 1971.

Gloria hosted the Blue Mondays All Ages Jam with Gary Martin and the Heavenly Blues who brought her to Calgary and generously offered to bring her by Cantos to host the jam!

Gloria also gave a songwriters workshop on September 29 here at Cantos.

Young jammers strut their stuff for an encouraging audience at Blue Mondays

Calgary Opera:Community InstrumentsEPCOR Centre for thePerforming ArtsSoundasaurusCalgary Folk Music FestivalFolk Boot Camp Olympic Plaza Cultural DistrictFirst ThursdaysMount Royal ConservatoryMusic@Noon@CantosCalgary International Blues FestivalBluesFest 2010Calgary Reggae FestivalCreative SpacesCalgary Downtown AssociationCantos Street SoundsFriends of the King EddyBlue Mondays All Ages Blues JamUniversity of CalgaryPipe! Pipe! Hooray!Fort CalgaryCanadian Communities Celebrate!/Canada DayLougheed HouseParlour Music 1905

CADMEAll Ages Jazz JamAlliance FranaiseHurdy Gurdy performanceCalgary Society of OrganistsResonate/Calgary Organ FestivalRoyal Canadian College of OrganistsResonate/Calgary Organ FestivalCalgary International Film FestivalLecture Series and Music on FilmCalgary is AwesomeShot at the Dark Film SeriesGlobal CountryCanadian Country Music Hall of FameCalgary StampedeCanadian Country Music Hall of FameRandom Task CollectiveCollective on SundaysOne Yellow RabbitHigh Performance RodeoCanmore Folk Music FestivalFolkFest 2010/Instrument Petting Zoo

One of Cantos Music Foundations fundamental values is collaboration. Our team works with numerous other community and cultural organizations to help use music as a conduit for creativity, cooperation and community. Our partners in 2010 included:

CKUACreative SpacesCJSWCreative SpacesAlberta BalletYour Song/Love Lies BleedingSouthern Alberta Jubilee AuditoriumGhosts of 100 SongsAlberta Museums Assoc./Canadian ConservationHeritage Planning CourseMorningside Music BridgeMusic@Noon@CantosThe Banff CentreAlberta Arts DaysCalgary Underground Film FestivalLook at What the Light Did NowTooth Blackner ProductionsLook at What the Light Did NowFeel Fun Film FestivalSilent Film: The GeneralSled IslandCreative Spaces

Collaborations at a Glance

Cantos teamed up with Fort Calgary to bring more than 10,000 Calgarians a dayfilledwithmusicandfun.TheCantosprogramming team brought a variety of artists in to entertain the crowds and celebrate Canadas musical diversity. Performers included: Ruth Purves Smith, The Fedora Club, The Mike Clark Band, Heather Blush and the Uppercuts, Random Task Collective and Gary Martin and the Heavenly Blues.

The partnership with Fort Calgary was thefirstofwhatwehopewillbemanyaswe prepare to move the National Music Centre to East Village where we will be neighbours.

Music Nation Celebration: Canada Day at Fort Calgary

Music on FilmCantos Partnered with the Calgary International Film Festival to bring a number ofgreatfilmstothescreenincludingMusic From the Big House and Soundtrack for a Revolution. In cooperation with the Calgary Underground Film Festival and Tooth Blackner Presents, we screened the Feist documentary Look at What the Light Did Now and with Cinematique, Cantos presented a screening of Fritz Langs Metropolis accompanied live by the Alloy Orchestra.

Festival FabulousCantos spent some quality time with Alberta music lovers this summer with appearances at the Calgary Folk Music Festival, the Canmore Folk Festival and the Calgary International Blues Festival.

Sporting our fancy new Ask Me About NMC t-shirts, we talked to hundreds of people about the National Music Centre project while providing a little entertainment of our own.

Family FunWe took our instrument petting zoo to the family areas at both the Canmore and Calgary Folk Festivals engaging kids in interactive music making on unique instruments. The kids especially love the sci-fisoundsoftheTheremin.

Cantos Jam Stage at the Calgary Folk Music FestivalAs has become tradition, we brought some of our coolest instruments to the Cantos tent at FolkFest for a variety of festival performers playing pleasure. In addition to scheduled performances by the likes of Axis of Conversation, JR Shore, Ohbijou, Ukrania, esl and Chris Gehran, we had plenty of people stop by to jam on the Minimoog, Wurlitzer, suitcase harmonium, LM 1 drum machine and the Theremin including Shakura Saidas keyboard player Lance Anderson who led a rousing rendition of Lean on Me.

Impromptu jams broke out with passing trumpeters, guitar players and drummers and crowds gathered for audience participation that had everyone singing and dancing.

Folk Fest Boot CampWewerealsothrilledtohostourfifthconsecutiveFolk Festival Boot Camp with workshops from Linda Tillery, Dan Mangan, David Essig, Del Ray and others. Singers, songwriters and guitar players infused the building with music for three days and it wasnt unusual to find a group of workshopparticipants to be composing in the stairwell or in the loading dock. Thanks to the Folk Festival for continuing to choose Cantos as the venue for this amazing event!

Music Nation Celebration: Canada Day at Fort Calgary

Dan Mangan performs at Boot Camp Kick-Off in our Performance Space.

It was 10 days of music, memorabilia and magic at the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame during this years Stampede. With revitalized exhibits, the addition of the Ray Griff Songwriters Stage, the High Noon Concert Series and visits by Michelle Wright, the Good Brothers and others, Cantos was thrilled with the outcome.

Performances by emerging Alberta country artists including Matt Masters, Hurricane Felix and the Southern Twisters, Wheat and Water and others brought the energy of live music to the Hall during the inaugural High Noon Concert Series. Matt Masters said of the series: This is unique at the Stampede. Its the only place featuring local talent on the entire grounds.

Thestagewasnamedafterprolificsongwriterand Hall-of-Famer Ray Griff who is credited with writing more than 2,000 songs and has received international accolades for the number of hits he has in his catalogue.

The collection team including Jesse Moffatt, Rick Smith and Annie Phillips with help from summer student and frontliner Sarah Davachi gave the Hall of Fame a complete revitalization organizing artifacts into the order of induction and by category: artist, builders and broadcasters. There was also a section set aside for non-Hall-of-Famers who were friends of founder Gary Buck.

Instruments were displayed in a way people could get up close and personal and some of themoreelaborateperformanceoutfitswereset out on mannequins so visitors could see how the Mercey Brothers or the Rhythm Pals may have looked on stage together. Listening stations were also added so folks could hear the work of some of the Hall of Famers.

We made a lot of friends over the 10 days and look forward to next years Stampede! Special thanks go out to all of our dedicated volunteers, Dianne Kerr, Maryanne Gibson and Deb Buck for their ongoing support and passion.

Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame Attendance: About 10,000

Audience Reach

Stomp & StrumCantoshosteditsfirsteverStampedefundraiser on Parade Day July 9, 2010. More than 250 folks moseyed down to the Cantos breezeway to enjoy some good eats, fine drinks (sponsored byWillow Park Wines and Spirits), face painting, balloon animals, cotton candy and, of course, tons of great music.

Tim Hus, The Good Brothers and Michelle Wright brought their talents to the Loading Dock Stage while kids of all ages tapped their toes and sang along. Many also took tours of the amazing Cantos Music Collection.

A guitar autographed by the members of Blue Rodeo was auctioned off raising $5,000 for Cantos and other donations allowed the Foundation to raise more than $11,000 that day. Thanks again to Willow Park Wines and Spirits and for all of our supporters for their generosity!

Michelle Wright performs at Stomp and Strum

Cantos Pianos get the Star TreatmentCantos Yamaha C7 and Steinway O pianos have made music with countless entertainment luminaries over the years from Sarah MacLachlan to David Foster. This summer was particularly busy for these instruments as the C7 was seconded to the main stage at the Calgary Folk Music Festival where it was played by numerous performers, including the amazing Roberta Flack. Perhaps best known for her 70s soul hits Killing Me Softly and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Flack is a prolificandgiftedpianistwhohasbuiltalongandsuccessful career combining her technical skill with her sultry vocals and soulful presentation.

Also tickling the C7s ivories this summer was Canadian country music legend Ray Griff in his special presentation at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino. Ray has written more than 2,000 songs, including at least 50 nationally charted singles in Canada and the US, has released 22 albums on his own and received over 80 ASCAP and BMI citations as a songwriter, artist, producer and publisher and remains one of the hottest songwriters and music publishers in country music.

As Bryan Adams made his way across Canada with his Bare Bones Acoustic Tour, he made a stop in Red Deer where he used Cantos Steinway O to serenade fans with his hits.

Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 18 JUNO Awards among 56 nominations, including wins for Best Male Artist in 2000 and Male Vocalist of the Year in 1997 and every year from 1983 to 1987, as well as JUNOs for Producer, Composer, and Songwriter of the Year. He has also had 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically foraMotionPictureorTelevision for(Everything I Do) I Do It for You for Robin Hood: Prince of Theives in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting forfilms.

Another fan of the Steinway O was the inimitable Van Morrison who played the instrument at his Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium performance in Calgary. He actually opened the show sitting at the Steinway to play Northern Muse followed by a mellow Brown Eyed Girl.

Collections

Singer-Songwriter Anne Vriend plays Cantos

Rhapsody in Blue Steinway

Art and Music Collide with Cantos DonationCantos Music Foundation received a most fascinating donation from the Higgin family in 2010 with an oil pastel painting of local opera legend Enrico de Carlo by local visual art legend H.G. Glyde.

Glyde, who came to Calgary in 1935 to join the Faculty of Art at the Provincial Institute of Technology (now ACAD), had a deep desire to learn how to sing. So, he arranged for lessons with Elgar Higgin, a well known opera teacher who had studied under the great Enrico Caruso in New York and went on to teach major Canadian opera stars like Allan Monk.

As payment for these lessons, Glyde offered a painting. The subject was Higgin (whose stage name was Enrico de Carlo) on stage in one of his roles.

BothGlydeandHigginbecameimportantfiguresinAlbertas cultural scene with lifelong commitments to visual and performing arts. Higgin and his wife, Eileen, began teaching singing at the Banff School of Fine Arts in 1949 and in 1952 persuaded the school to establish an opera division. Glyde also taught at the Banff School and was head of the art division from 1936 - 1966.

The painting, measuring 68 x 44, was donated by the Higgins daughter, Elaine on behalf of the Higgin family - a family that is still contributing to music education in the province today.

Enrico de Carlo, by H. G. Glyde

Case of the 5-Necked GuitarAs the collections team worked hard at integrating the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame collection, our own Jesse Moffatt, Rick Smith and Annie Phillips performed a complete inventory and itemized, photographed, assigned values and tagged over 1280 items during the month of March.

Meanwhile, Cantos received an email from a gentleman from rural Saskatchewan looking for some artifacts he had lent to Gary Buck for the collection one of which, he said, was a five-neckedguitar!Interestpiqued,theteamsifted through hundreds of artifacts, and found this amazing and unique instrument property of Saskatchewan country music legend Lonesome Steve Puto.

When Lonesome Steve contacted Cantos, he explained that he had presented three guitars to Gary Buck at the Canadian

Country Music Hall of Fame fundraiser in April, 2003. Were absolutely

thrilled to have these one-of-a-kind instruments at the Hall of Fame as

part of a growing collection that helps tell Canadas fascinating

music story thanks to musicians and pioneers

like Lonesome Steve.Lonesome Steve Putos

five-neckedguitar

Fresh from the Shop

The electronics workshop worked hard to bring some vintage synths back to life and two of them are now on display in the electronics gallery:

Emulator 1

TheEmulator1was thefirst affordabledigitalsampler. It is an eight-voice, eight-bit sampler withanalogfiltersandprocessing.Oursfeaturesthe JL COOPER Emulator Generator Modulator modification which adds additional envelopecontrol and processing/routing. Legend has it only around 500 of these were made and it originally had a price tag of just under $10,000 in 1981, The next sampling option (the Fairlight CMI) was close to double the price, often more depending onconfiguration.ThisinstrumentwasdonatedbyBrian Kehew of the Moog Cookbook.

Waldorf Wave (1993)

The Wave is the Flagship instrument in the Waldorf catalogue. Its a very sophisticated and rare digital wavetable synthesizer featuring analog style controls and processing facilities. Its a modern classic often found in the collections of the industries top producers and sound designers we are lucky to have one!

Cantos Expertise Sought for Musical Instrument Dictionary

A team of Cantos and external experts, led by Jesse Moffatt, Manager of Collections and Artifact Care, has been charged with the monumental task of editing and updating the Electronic Instruments section of the Groves Dictionary of Musical Instruments.

The three-volume encyclopedia known as the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments appeared in 1985, totaling just over 2,700 pages, weighing 12.8 pounds altogether. The musical instruments dictionary took its place in the tradition of Groves music encyclopedias beginning with the Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by Sir George Grove in 1878. (For the latest incarnations, see Oxford Music Online.) Over the years the Groves dictionaries, including many offshoot publications on particular facets of music, have been seen as the foremost and most authoritative scholarly resources in their fields.The1985musicalinstrumentsdictionaryis regardedas the final andexhaustiveword inmusical instrument scholarship.

Of course, electronic instruments have come a long way in 25 years and Cantos expertise and collection of many of the major innovations over this time period made editor-in-chief Laurence Libin thinkofCantosfirstwhen it came time tomake this major update.

The Buchla 200E - one of the many instruments in the electronics collection

Jesse has enlisted the help of Andrew Mosker, President & CEO of Cantos whose Masters of Fine Arts in Musicology thesis is on the topic of electronic instruments as well as John Leimseider, one of the worlds foremost technicians of electronic instruments; Rick Smith, a technician whospentsignificanttimeunderthetutelageofsynth innovator Don Buchla and David Kean - a collector of and expert in the history of electronic instruments and recording equipment.

Over the course of the next few months, the team will compile and edit existing articles to reflectnew innovations, identifygaps inentries,defineelectronic instruments that have emerged since 1985 either within the team itself or by identifying and soliciting input from other experts. In all, the New Groves Dictionary currently contains about 13,000 entries with hundreds more expected.

Specialty Tours

Valentine Tours

CantosfeatureditsfirstValentineToursthisyearon February 11 and 14 that showcased love songs through the ages on our unique collection. Love was in the air with Chris Maric accompanying the shortHaroldLloydsilentfilmIDoontheKimbalTheatre Organ. The three tours, co-led by Sarah Davachi and Brandon Smith were sold out and enthusiastically received.

Tales From the Crypt Halloween Tour

This special edition Halloween Tour began with Tales from the Crypt a rare and spooky look at the Cantos basement full of old and rare instruments with many scary stories to tell. Then, ghostly musicians guided visitors through the Collection, raising instruments from the dead with creepy sounds and melodies.

History of the Christmas Carol Tour

Music historian and performer Kasia Borkowska took visitors on a musical journey through time and the Cantos Music Collection as they explored the history of the Christmas Carol.

Halloween tour goers get a rare look at the Cantos basement , AKA, The Crypt.

National Music Centre Vision Takes Flight

It was a monumental year for the National Music Centre with funding announcements of $25 million each from the City of Calgary as well as the Province of Alberta and the Government of Canada. The architectural design of the building progressed a great deal over 2010 with the completion of schematic design and the beginning of design development.

CARAS Partnership

The National Music Centre project made a big splash in Ontario this summer with a unique partnership with the Canadian Association of Recording Arts and Sciences and the JUNO Awards.

NMC has partnered in the creation and exhibition of the Great Canadian Music Challenge that invites Canadians to answer trivia questions about Canadian Music. The game, exhibited in a large interactive display, was at the Ottawa Blues Festival and Torontos Canadian National

Exhibition later in August. We also provided a number of important Canadian music artifacts for display in the History of Rock and Roll exhibit at the CNE.

A Brand is Born

After nearly a year of research, consultation, design, revision and approvals, we unveiled the National Music Centre brand. We invited stakeholders to view the process and presentationfirsthandinJulytogreatreviewsand have been rolling the brand throughout 2010.

National Music Centre Project

Revenue

Music collection $853,212 Programs $687,822 Fund development $955,337 Marketing $159,025 General and administration $892,464

Total $3,547,860

Expenditures

Financials

Donations $2,370,247 Government grants $507,070 Foundations $158,893 Sponsorships $105,001 Sale of goods and services $111,946 Unrealized gain on Investments $301,754 Investment income $95,109 Gifts in kind $44,450 Amortization of deferred capitalcontributions $35,380 Total $3,729,850

For the year end of December 31, 2010

For the year end of December 31, 2010

Cam Crawford Charlie Fischer Desiree Bombenon Freida Butcher

Jamie Leong-Huxley Ken Boessenkool Mary Rozsa de Coquet Ric Singleton

Roger Jackson, Chair Roman Cooney Ron Mannix

Board of Directors

134-11th Avenue SE, Calgary Alberta Canada T2G 0X5Ph: (403) 543-5115info@cantos.cawww.cantos.ca

Grantors

Canadian HeritageAlberta Foundation for

the ArtsAlberta Lottery Fund

Calgary Arts Development

The City of Calgary

Sponsors

ATCO GroupHyatt Regency Calgary

Donors

EnCanaCenovus

Telus Community BoardMBE Jet Ltd.

Foundations

The Calgary FoundationThe Rozsa Foundation