CMW 2014: SiriusXM Indies In Photos

It's been such a busy time that I realized I still had one more post from Canadian Music Week. This one is from the Sirius XM Indies. It was a great night full of awesome performances, much-deserved awards and even a lovely surprise for yours truly.

Check out my photos from the show:

Poncuation

The Strumbellas

 Mounties

The Born Ruffians

The Hidden Cameras

Little Dragon

Throughout the show, the audience was encouraged to Tweet along with the hashtag #SiriusXMIndies and obviously I was doing just that. But in addition to sharing all the fun, everyone was automatically entered to win an Indie award guitar and to my amazement, I won.

 I found these pics of me on www.indies.ca

The look of confusion says it all.

Best of all, CMW posted this:

Congrats @christinaaa28 on winning our #SiriusXMIndies @GibsonGuitarCA guitar! Rock on. Tweet on. Party on. pic.twitter.com/zn0H28kS7x
— Canadian Music Week (@CMW_Week) May 11, 2014

Such a funny moment. Good times. Thanks CMW!

- Christina
Follow my adventures on Twitter: @christinaaa28

CMW 2013 | SiriusXM Indie Awards Part 1

Last Friday, I got to cover the SiriusXM Indie Awards for Faze Magazine. This year, they moved the event to a new venue: the Kool Haus. I thought it was a great set-up and I had a lot of fun! I took tons of photos, so I'm going to separate this into a few different posts - enjoy!

The green room, where industry folks, media and artists mingled. 

Diamond Rings being interviewed - he was one of the performers of the night

Jeff Leake (Director of Music Programming at SiriusXM) was the host for the evening

 Hip hop artist Cadence Weapon opened up the show. He won the award for favourite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist or Group of the Year.

Sharlene Chiu & Daniel Victor presented the award for favourite Video of the Year.

The winners: Marianas Trench

Australian rapper 360 was the next performer. He killed it up on stage - he's so cool!

If you haven't heard of 360 yet, here's his video for his hit track "Child"

More SiriusXM Indie Awards coverage to come!

- Christina
Follow my adventures on Twitter: @christinaaa28