Tour Management
| Friday, March 16th, 2012 | Student Services Building |
1pm - 2pm | $2 |
Our Tour Management panel will bring together three highly experienced music industry professionals to discuss the different aspects of tour and tour management. The panel will discuss various topics such as: what it’s like to be on tour, how to book a tour, tour stories (good and bad) and a play-by-play of a typical day on the road or at a show.
Confirmed Panelists
Lawrence Shyrane - Production Manager
With over twenty-four years of experience in live event production, staging, Producing, Stage Design. Lawrence has extensive national and international touring experience as a Stage manager, Production Manager and Tour manager working with many International recording artists. Raised in London, England and now living in Toronto, Canada he has also lived in Vancouver and Los Angeles, California. He attended The London School of Dramatic Arts, studying Theatre and stagecraft.
His credits include:
- Director of Production for Virgin Festivals Canada National Tour from 2006-2008
- OZ Fest (Calgary) 2009
- Earth Hour 2008-2010
- Edgefest from 2008-Present
- Wakestock 2009- Present
- Rogers Picnic 2007-2008
- Tragically Hip Festival Canada Day 2011-Present
He has also Produced live events for AEG Live, Goldenvoice Canada LTD, Live
Nation Bacardi, Virgin Mobile, Microsoft, HP, Intel, Molson's, Labatt's, IBM,
Coca Cola, Fashion Cares, Teddy Bear affair and many more.
Tara Hitchman - Tour Manager
After graduating from the music business program at Durham College, Tara spent the majority of her days mothering musicians on the road as a tour manager for the likes of Protest the Hero, Jesse Labelle, Sandman Viper Command, and Emily Osment. She has worked production for massive festivals like Edgefest in Toronto and held office positions at Wax Records and E1. Tara's ability to work hard under pressure and never show a sign of stress made Sari (Audio Blood's president) feel warm and fuzzy inside… so really it was a natural fit and in 2011 Tara officially joined the Audio Blood family.
Twitter: @tarahitchman
Stefan Babcock
Stefan Babcock holds the position of Marketing Coordinator at Arts & Crafts Productions, one of Canada's leading full-service, independent music companies. Working with artists such as Feist, Broken Social Scene and Dan Mangan, his duties include liaising with project and artist managers to create and execute marketing plans, while also managing the company's efforts to secure funding for these initiatives via various Canadian grant programs. Stefan is part of a team that is emphasizes and develops new and innovative approaches to artist development.
Stefan is a graduate of Ryerson's Radio & TV program, and draws from a long history of DIY show promotion, tour management, and performance to develop a well-rounded industry perspective. He got his first taste of life on the road at age 17 while playing in and managing a reckless and dysfunctional ska band called Stop Drop. He then began tour managing various local bands before landing at Arts & Crafts. His first assignment at A&C was to spend 3 months straight on the road with Zeus, Jason Collett, and Bahamas. That's a long time to be on the road in a small sweaty van with six other large, sweaty dudes. It was fun, but tough, and also, Stefan crashed Jason Collett's tour van. That was not good.
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