Talent Trust Artist Spotlight Radio with Guests Charley Young and Shandi Mitchell June 6, 2019.

Tune in to 97.5 CIOE Community Radio at 1 p.m. to hear past scholarship recipient and current board member Breagh MacKinnon host the Talent Trust Artist Spotlight in our monthly series every first Thursday of each month.

June 6, @ 1 p.m. 

Breagh will interview TT alumni Charley Young, visual artist and teacher, showing at the First You Dream Exhibition at MSVU Art Gallery, as well as Shandi Mitchell, filmmaker and author whose second novel, "The Waiting Hours" is hot off the press. 

Listen to the first episode with former scholarship recipient soprano Jane Archibald and longtime board member, visual artist, and founder of a named special award Charlotte Wilson-Hammond. 

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Breagh Mackinnon Plays for the Juno Awards with her Port Cities Band on March 17, 2019.

As a member of Port Cities, past recipient and current Board member, Breagh Mackinnon was selected to perform in front of over 1,200 music industry elite at the JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards on March 17 2019.

From http://www.portcities.ca/

This follows her participation in the Allan Slaight JUNO Master Class, where Breagh and her bandmates received industry mentorship courtesy of The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and Slaight Music.

This masterclass and performance adds to a list of growing accolades including 2019 East Coast Music Award nominations for Songwriter of the Year and Entertainer of the Year, five 2017 Nova Scotia Music Awards, a SOCAN #1 Award (for “Back to the Bottom”), and stints at #1 on CBC and Spotify charts. Breagh Mackinnon with Port Cities has amassed over 1.5 million streams internationally, showcased at The Great Escape, Focus Wales, and the Reeperbahn Festival, and will be releasing their debut in the U.K. and Germany this year.

Read more about her Nova Scotian influence in a recent CBC article and watch her performance on JUNO Awards.