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Everything related to the free music calendars is done by email. We may call you occasionally to resolve an urgent problem, but the free calendars department does not have a phone number, you can't call us. Here are the 5 regular emails that we send out.

seasonal reminders

For the purpose of the calendar, we consider there are two "seasons": September to May, and June to August (approximately, depending on your programming).
One or two months before each "season", and sometimes in mid-season, we send reminders to all our contacts across Canada asking them to send us their complete season info. This reminder targets companies that have a season completely planned in advance, like those who have a season flyer that describes all their upcoming concerts for the next "season", like orchestras, choirs, recital societies, opera companies, summer festivals, all festivals.

  • Do not reply to these emails. To send us listings, always start a new thread, put the appropriate subject.
  • You don't have to wait for our reminders to send us your listings.
  • For more info on sending your listings, see step 1 in the table of contents.

monthly reminders

We publish 10 issues of the magazine La Scena Musicale per year. One month before each issue comes out, we send our contacts in the province of Québec and the Ottawa region a reminder of our deadlines for the calendar of the upcoming magazine issue. Deadlines are always around the 10th, never later than the 12th.

  • Do not reply to these emails. To send us listings, always start a new thread, put the appropriate subject.
  • You don't have to wait for our reminders to send us your listings.
  • Never send us the same listing twice.
    • If you have already sent us your complete info for the coming month or longer, just ignore this email.
    • If you have new listings to add to those previously sent, just send those new ones.
    • Each regional calendar covers the first 7 days of the next calendar period; so if you have already sent some listings for those 7 days, do not send them again.
  • We have 2 two-month issues. In November, our reminder is for December and January events; in June, it is for July and August events.
  • Do not write to tell us "we have nothing this month” or "we already sent you our listings for the whole season".
  • For more info on sending your listings, see step 1 in the table of contents.

here is what we have

We send this email every time we add your events to our database, or make major changes to them.
This begins step 2 proofreading our version.

  • Do reply to these emails. Do not modify the subject line.
  • This email is generated by the click of one button in our database. So please do not read any special emotion into it.
    We may sometimes add comments at the top, as a P.S., before sending it.
  • When you get this email, your job is to proofread it for errors, and answer our questions if any.
    • Our use of "???" allows you to jump from one question to the next using the Find Again function (apple-G or control-G).
    • A new concert is not a correction. New concerts must be sent separately, following the step 1 procedure.
  • Please wait for this email to send us your corrections, changes, cancellations.
  • Please keep these emails for one year. You can use them to send us program changes and cancellations later on.
  • For more info, see step 2 in the table of contents.

urgent - late fees

  • Do reply to these emails. Do not modify the subject line.
  • Instructions are included within the email.
  • For more info, see our page on deadlines and late fees.

contact info for your company

  • Do reply to these emails. Do not modify the subject line.
  • Please keep these emails for one year or more. You can use them to send changes to your contact info as they occur.

Occasionally, we will send you an email with the subject line "contact info for your company". This is to help us update our files so we can write to the right people. This is not just for our calendar department, it can also be used by accounting, magazine distribution, etc. You can also ask us to send you this email if you find that our emails or mail are not being sent to the right people in your company. No contact info is published, except websites for music companies.

Click here to see the procedure for proofreading the data in that email.

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