Live music venues offer music fans a space to enjoy unique, real-time musical performances – concert experiences only made possible by songwriters and composers who create the music that those musicians perform. When you become Licensed To Play with SOCAN, you have the freedom to engage all the live music your business needs to be successful, while ensuring that the artists you hire to perform are compensated for their work as songwriters as well. Your license to play music demonstrates to artists, songwriters, music fans and peer businesses that your venue is using music legally and ethically, while supporting Canadian music creators. The license fees that live venues pay to SOCAN for the public performance of live music are used to compensate SOCAN-member songwriters, composers and music publishers that make up SOCAN.
What is the difference between SOCAN and Re:Sound?
SOCAN represents the performing rights of songwriters, composers, and music publishers (the people who created the compositions that are embodied in sound recordings) in their musical compositions. Re:Sound represents the performing rights in the sound recordings of artists and record companies (the people who performed and recorded the compositions that are embodied
Cœur de pirate (a.k.a. Béatrice Martin) is a Francophone singer-songwriter from Montreal, with a compelling voice and emotionally resonant songs, who's been credited with bringing la chanson française to a whole new generation of Quebec youth. Singing mostly in French and occasionally in English, Cœur de pirate has earned five JUNO Award nominations, won four Felix awards at Quebec's ADISQ gala, and garnered the International Achievement Award at the Francophone SOCAN Awards in Montreal in 2010. The SOCAN member also won both a Victoires de la Musique Award in France, and a Canadian Independent Music Award.