Thursday October 9th, 2025

The 2025 Socan Awards  https://www.socan.com  were handed out Monday September 29th, 2025 at Rebel Toronto  https://rebeltoronto.com  ( 11 Polson St First Floor).   The SOCAN Awards is an annual event, held in both Toronto and Montréal, celebrates the songwriting, composing and music publishing achievements of our Anglophone and Francophone members alike.  Some of this years recipients included  Drake(who made history as the most-awarded songwriter in SOCAN’s century-long legacy and the most awarded in a single evening), Joni Mitchell , Lowell, bülow , Nathan Ferraro,& Boi-1da . Rudy Blair Entertainment Media rudyblairmedia.com was on the red carpet to speak with some of this year honourees and attendees including Wild Rivers  https://www.wildriversmusic.com  (Folk/RootsMusic Awards),  Erica Procunier  http://www.ericaprocunier.net  (Breakout ComposerAward), , Andrew Lockington  http://www.andrewlockington.com  (Most Streamed Production ‘Atlas’, “Special Ops:Lioness & Mayor Of Kingston) , Andrew Polychronopoulos(Dance Music Awards “Gravity’, ‘Missing You’ & ‘Missing You’) and Shaun Frank http://shaunfrank.com  &  Steve Mastoianni  http://stevemastroianni.com  (Country Music Award ‘Love Somebody’, Pop Music Award ‘Training Season’ & Dance Music Award ‘Sideways’)

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