The Board of the Radio Starmaker Fund has made the decision to institute two special emergency measures to assist our community in this very difficult and challenging time.

(1) ALL CURRENT OUTSTANDING GRANTS/FILES WILL BE PAID IN FULL ON APRIL 3^rd, 2020

The Starmaker Board has taken the extraordinary step to forgive all outstanding paperwork for both marketing and touring files. We currently have over $2 million in our system that is pending to support artists and labels. We will pay all of it out to the applicants on Friday, April 3^rd, 2020. There is no need for you to take any steps in this regard - we will mark your files as “COVID-19 Override” and distribute payment. There will be no need to provide any future paperwork for touring grants or marketing support up to Round 74 completed in March. For labels - we are specifically waiving any requirement for you to spend the money in the ways outlined in your application. If you need the money to pay your rent - or employee wages - then feel free to use it as best you can. We hope that you can maintain or move some of your marketing initiatives to make them viable but we will leave it in your hands to make that decision in consultation with your artists. For artists touring grants we ask that you consider your band and crew when we pay out the remaining grants to you. Anything you can do to spread the money around within your circle of workers will help everyone.

(2) WE ARE CREATING A SPECIAL EMERGENCY RELIEF ROUND OF TOUR SUPPORT FUNDING DUE APRIL 30^th, 2020

In addition to our regular Round 75 which is now launching, the Board has created a special emergency relief round of funding to specifically compensate currently qualified Starmaker Artists for cancelled tour dates during the period March 15^th, 2020 to June 30^th, 2020. The details of this relief program are contained in the email notification sent to all users on March 30^th, 2020 and reproduced below.

• All currently qualified Starmaker Artists may apply to the Fund for cancelled tour date subsidies (based on our current rules and eligibility requirements) for the period March 15^th, 2020-June 30^th, 2020

• The application deadline is Thursday April 30^th, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST - all applications must be marked as received in our email system by that time

• Applications will be completed manually (not through the website) as a one page written summary of the tour dates planned, a spreadsheet of the dates requested for funding containing all the normal information that would be included in a tour date request (date, city, venue, capacity, ticket price, etc.) and whatever proof you can provide that these dates were booked and cancelled (ticket on sale evidence, poster, agent summary, anything will be considered). Please note: we will not review these emails before they are submitted.

• Email applications to be sent to MichelleFarres@starmaker.ca

• All applications will be reviewed and we will do our best to spread out as much money as we can over as many applicants as we can.

• There is no guarantee of funding in any amounts - all decisions are 100% discretionary and 100% final - we will simply do our best to help as many artists as we can.

• You cannot apply for dates that have already been funding through Round 74 applications