Halifax Politics dot ca

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From producing rock concerts to writing political commentary, Waye Mason is your man. He works in the music industry as an educator, event producer, and business manager, and has been a Halifax area activist and occasional op/ed writer for over twenty years.

Waye Mason began banging his head against the brick wall that is the Canadian music industry almost twenty years ago.

It all started while volunteering at campus station CKDU-FM in 1990, where he stayed for seven years. Observing (sometimes) desperate and (often) floundering bands at close range triggered Waye’s natural fatherly instincts. He started to organizing shows and helping bands record in 1991, and started record label (No Records) in 1993, in part to alleviate the artist’s pain.

After ten years of doing it punk rock, he sold out and in 2001 he became a Board member of Music Nova Scotia (then MIANS), serving as Treasurer, Vice President, and then President.

He wrote and lobbied for the 2002 Music Sector Strategy, which lead to an unprecedented couple of million bucks in investment in music in Nova Scotia. In 2007, Music Nova Scotia hired him to write the 2007 version of the Music Sector Strategy revision.

During that time Waye lead the fight to stop the replacement of Halifax’s small community schools with a couple of expensive mega-schools, started writing op/ed pieces that sometimes even get published in real newspapers, and began posting his thoughts on his website Halifax Politics dot ca.

Over the years he has worked as business management consultant, with clients such as Ticketpro Canada, DRUM!, and Gigantic Entertainment. He was the Executive Director of the Halifax Pop Explosion music festival from 2001 to 2010.

Today, Waye has a day job as an instructor at the Nova Scotia Community College, where he teaches Music Business and entrepreneurship to the Photo, Music Arts, and Recording Arts programs. He is a Board member of Music Nova Scotia and a member of the National Training Advisory Council for the music industry.

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The opinions on this website are my own, and no one else, unless otherwise indicated.