Forward Music Group is a Canadian management company and

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based in Halifax,

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and distributed nationally by FAB.

Company history

Founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick by James Boyle, Kyle Cunjak, and Zach Atkinson in 2006, the team initially provided professional representation for

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musical acts, particularly those who found it difficult or impossible to release their music through the area's conventional channels. With a strong focus on aesthetics, presentation, and a grassroots approach to marketing & advertising, FMG have carved out a niche for themselves in the Canadian musical landscape and maintained a close relationship to their fan base. Forward regularly work with festivals and conferences such as Shivering Songs, ''the Halifax Jazz Festival'', ''Nova Scotia Music Week'' and ''East Coast Music Week'' to program interesting and intimate events with a variety of musicians both from inside and outside their community. At the 2007

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, one stage, dubbed the "Forward Music Group Stage," featured acts on the label alongside

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and

Holy Fuck Holy Fuck is a Canadian electronica band from Toronto. They were a part of Dependent Music, a music label and artist collective that began in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 2004 until its closing. They were then a part of the Young Turks label and in ...

. At the 2012 festival, Forward programmed music for the yurt stage and staged theatrical performances during the day with fake security guards at the yurt entrance that provoked the public by shooting them with water guns. They also operate a sister label called Backward Music for

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and work with NYC-based Bing & Ruth, Toronto producer/percussionist Joshua Van Tassel, and more.

Current roster

Michael Feuerstack Michael Feuerstack is a Canadian indie rock musician, who has been associated with the bands Wooden Stars and Snailhouse. Snailhouse was essentially a solo project with multiple contributing artists, including Julie Doiron of Eric's Trip, with ...

* Gianna Lauren * Joshua Van Tassel * JOYFULTALK * Paper Beat Scissors *

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* Cedric Noel * Century Egg * Wolf Castle * Jennah Barry * Sarah Pagé * Nick Schofield * Charbonneau/Amato * Nico Paulo

Discography

* Nico Paulo - Nico Paulo (2023) * Cedric Noel - Hang Time (2021) *

- Natural Weather (2018) *

- Beauty in the Tension (2018) * Sleepless Nights - Crystal Mountains (2017) * Paper Beat Scissors - All We Know (2017) * Gianna Lauren - M o v i n g P a r t s (2017) * Dan Misha Goldman - Champion of the Afterworld (2017) *

- Adult Lullabies (2016) * Gianna Lauren - Windows - Single (2015) * Paper Beat Scissors - Go On (2015) * Paper Beat Scissors - Go On (2015) * Gianna Lauren - Mistakes - Single (2015) *

Gypsophilia Gypsophilia was a Canadian jazz band from Nova Scotia. The band is composed of Ross Burns, Alec Frith, Nick Wilkinson (guitars), Gina Burgess (violin), Adam Fine (double bass), Matt Myer (trumpet), and Sageev Oore (piano, keyboards, accordion, me ...

- Night Swimming (2015) * Forward Music Group 2015 Sampler (2015) * Find The Others - Empire of Time (2015) *

- The Forgettable Truth (2015) *

& Associates - Singer Songer (2014) *

- Chance To Fate (2014) *

- The City Won't Have Time To Remix (2014) *

- Horska (2013) *

- Tambourine Death Bed (2013) *

- Shadow / Wolves (2013) * Paper Beat Scissors - Tendrils / Live at St. Matthew's Church (2013) * Gianna Lauren - On Personhood (2013) * Alan Jeffries - Coffee 'Til Midnight (2013) * Forward Music Group 2013 Sampler (2013) * Grand Theft Bus - Say it With Me (2012) * Snailhouse - Lies On The Prize (2012) *

- Southern Souls Sessions (2012) * Paper Beat Scissors - Paper Beat Scissors (2012) * Forward Music Group - Forward Xmas Remix 2011 (2011) * Forward Music Group - Forward Music Fall 2011 Sampler (2011) * Gypsophilia - Constellation (2011) * Snailhouse - Sentimental Gentleman (2011) * The Olympic Symphonium- The City Won't Have Time To Fight (2011) *

- Live At The Cohn (2010) * Gianna Lauren - Some Move Closer, Some Move On (2010) * The Slate Pacific - Eccentrics and Young Professionals (2010) * Sleepless Nights - The Communications Barrier (2010) *

- Chapter 1 (special revised edition) (2010) * The Slate Pacific - The Safe Passage Remix EP (2010) * Share - Coco et Co. (2010) * Sleepless Nights - The Phone Booth Outside The Video Store (2010) * Sleepless Nights - King Diamond (2009) * Share- Slumping In Your Murals (2009) * The Motorleague - Black Noise (2009) * The Slate Pacific - Safe Passage (2009) * Sleepless Nights - Jamz (2009) *

- More In Sorrow Than In Anger (2008) * Paiens - Pyramyd (2008) * Forward Music Group - 2008 Sampler (2008) * Grand Theft Bus - Made Upwards (2008) * Sleepless Nights - Turn Into Vapour (2007) * Share - Pedestrian (2007) * Petunia & the Loons - Petunia & the Loons (2007) * Grand Theft Bus - Flies In The No Fly (2007) *

- Chapter 1 (2007) * The Fussy Part - Ben EP (2007)

Past roster

* Sleepless Nights * Snailhouse * Grand Theft Bus * The Motorleague * Paiens * Share * Petunia & the Loons * Slate Pacific * The Fussy Part

References

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Additional sources

External links

Official Site
{{Authority control Record labels established in 2006 Canadian independent record labels Companies based in Fredericton Companies based in Halifax, Nova Scotia