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Concert Promoter Republic Live Creates Ooch and Hearts For Kids With Cancer

In late June, before The Rolling Stones played Burl’s Creek Event Grounds in Oro-Medonte, Ontario, Karen Bliss of Samaritanmag.com spoke with the venue owner/R

Concert Promoter Republic Live Creates Ooch and Hearts For Kids With Cancer

By Karen Bliss

In late June, before The Rolling Stones played Burl’s Creek Event Grounds in Oro-Medonte, Ontario, Karen Bliss of Samaritanmag.com spoke with the venue owner/Republic Live co-founder Stan Dunford about their events and the charities they support.  The big Stones show now out of the way, Republic Live still has its inaugural Big Sky Festival July 20 and the long-running Boots & Hearts Music Festival August 8-11.   


Dunford always adds a charity component to its annual Boots and Hearts country music festival, headlined this year (Aug 8-11) by Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, and Maren Morris.

Years back, he teamed with music education charity MusiCounts and asked members of the music industry to donate $50 in exchange for tickets to the three-day festival but then he heard about Camp Ooch, a unique overnight summer camp for children with cancer and brought in the hashtag #BootsLovesOoch and enabled the festival-goers to help raise money.

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“It's a cancer resort in the Muskokas, where kids that aren’t allowed or can’t do certain things because they’re fighting cancer, they come up to Camp Ooch, where they have complete medical facilities there for blood transfusions, radiation, chemo and everything,” Dunford tells Samaritanmag. “The kids get to actually live a normal life for a while, while they're being treated for their cancer.”

Stan, wife Eva, daughter Brooke, and “the whole team” at Republic Live are involved, he says.

Past initiatives for Camp Ooch at Boots and Hearts included a 50-50 raffle and donating $1 from every bottle of water sold. The country music festival is the largest of its kind in Canada and regularly draws 40,000 people over three days.

The really special part comes later — Ooch & Hearts. – Continue reading the feature on the Samaritanmag website.

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Jade Eagleson, The Reklaws Lead CMAOntario Nominations in 2024

The Country Music Association of Ontario has announced the nominations for its 12th annual CMAOntario Awards, with Jade Eagleson racking up five nominations. The awards will be presented on June 2 at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga.

Jade Eagleson is poised to win big at the CMAOntario Awards, presented by the Country Music Association of Ontario.

The "Rodeo Queen" singer picked up five awards nominations today, including Single of the Year, Album/EP of the Year, and Male Artist of the Year — the most nominations of any artist. Eagleson is followed by sibling duo The Reklaws, rising artists Josh Ross and Karli June, and mainstay Meghan Patrick, who all have four nominations each.

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