As the founder of Oceanview Guitar Studio & Creative Services, and Avebury Moon Music & Film, 17 x award-winning guitarist-filmmaker Kerilie McDowall offers guitar instruction, music industry coaching, and workshops from sound bathing, publicity/understanding the press to film. She’s coached and worked instructing non-profit groups from opera to theatre, to guitarists of all levels, JUNO and Polaris-winning musicians, to new film directors, and young filmmakers. As a professional publicist, she can also teach you a few tricks that you will just not want to miss, with crucial-to-your-success press, TV, radio, blog/podcast industry guidance, with important timelines and guidelines.
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JUNO Awards Readiness Coaching , Your First FREE Guitar Lesson & More!
Published about 1 month ago • 16 min read
Coaching Assistance for Recording Artists, Writers & Filmmakers
From Pixabay by Webandi.
Happy Spring! It's Kerilie McDowall here, I have BIG NEWS coming up soon, so stay tuned an announcement will be coming, and in the meantime, fab discounts on coaching, mentoring, and other great services with offer opportunities. You can check out all of my services on my music and creative services website https://kerilie.com in the store. I coach guitarists, creatives, writers, non-profits, businesses, on-the-rise musicians, and new film directors at Oceanview Guitar Studio & Creative Services in Nanaimo, BC, Canada.
Services include grant writing, writing services, film festing, press and publicity coaching, JUNO Awards readiness and album prep, and music sync coaching immersion for emerging composers and songwriters.
(Prices are in USD and Canadian funds can be converted with a quick USD to CAD calculation on Google online.)
I am thrilled to announce that I have joined Fromm Consulting as an A&R Representative. Fromm Consulting specializes in the complexities of music rights transactions. Fromm Consulting was founded by 70× platinum songwriter Andrew Fromm—a 27-year music-industry veteran. Since 2008, Andrew and team have completed nearly 200 music rights deals (Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Clapton, Rihanna), totaling over $1.25 billion in total sales. If you are an artist or an acquaintance of a music artist that may be interested in selling a song or catalogue, do not hesitate to contact me at keriliemcdowall@gmail.com.
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COACHING
Lately I have recently been working with extremely gifted, excellent award-winning vocalists, coaching them with finding global and national music fests, grant writing, writing, the press, self-publicity, music sync, radio, TV, guest podcasting/blogging and the North American music industry.
One of my talented Edmonton recording artist clients I was coaching and assisting with grant writing just received the news that she has won the major grant award we had been working on.
It is knowing that deserving artists are gaining the acknowledgement and funding that they deserve that brings me the most happy satisfaction. Additionally, our Canadian and US artists are very gifted and deserve to be supported.
Why? Music brings in major income on a global scale. Driven primarily by live events and tourism, Canada's music industry adds over $10.9 billion and 135,000 jobs to the national GDP every year. Recent data also highlights strong sector growth, with the recorded music market reaching $957.9 million and the rights management organization SOCAN bringing in an unprecedented $587 million, for example.
The music industry contributes $212 billion to the U.S. GDP annually and supports more than 2.5 million American jobs.
This is only one reason why music programs should not be cut from schools. Additionally from an innovation point of view and making Canada competitive, high school music students receive higher grades and improved intellect over their non-music-focused peers. Early music lessons prevent dementia later in life. Science and health magazines rave about this.
MUSIC IN SCHOOLS VS SPORTS (ILLOGICAL SPOCK MOMENT )
MUSIC BRINGS IN MORE INCOME THAN SPORTS IN CANADA BUT RECEIVES MORE CUTS
The Economic Impact of Canadian Sports
Canada's sports sector is anchored by community-level facilities, local recreation programs, and a deep-rooted winter sports culture, all complementing its major professional sports franchises. To measure this financial impact, Statistics Canada monitors the entire value chain through its official "Sport GDP" metrics.
Annual Sport GDP: The sports industry generates$7.56 billion CAD every year.
GDP Contribution: This economic output represents precisely 0.3% of Canada's overall gross domestic product.
Workforce Impact: More than 103,000 jobs nationwide are supported by the sports sector, with athletic education, coaching, and structured tournaments serving as primary employment drivers.
COACHING RESULTS
As you know, I have been a long-time JUNO Awards and DownBeat Critics Poll music judge, a 2025/26 MiMc Music Awards judge with Music in Motion Canada, and a past Polaris Music Prize judge (2018-2026). So, I have been coaching artists in JUNO Awards readiness and prep, music sync contacts, as well as sharing prospective BC, Canada, USA, and European Jazz and Music Fest lists and contact information. This includes contact and acquisition information for blogs, podcast guesting and how to access radio and music sync.
I also assist writers with book launches; the press, and new film directors with film festing and the press.
If you would like some assistance, I have some space right now to assist. I am working with several artists and have limited space.
As I had mentioned I have been drawing BIG lines in groups of five to create massive music score paper, because I find creating my own staff paper makes me feel much freer when I am not squinting to see the notes and struggling to fit and squeeze them on to the staff!
It was kind of comical, this is a joke for the musicians. I ran into a leger line mishap when sketching out violin harmonics while composing, noting the notes due to trying to remember what I was hearing due to repeatedly falling asleep (late at night), yes so I went to bed! Then a fun game with a violin extreme upper leger line harmonics range better suited to piano due to the range, and a leger line bass drone interfering with the scoring space yesterday! Leger line fiasco!!!!
From Pixabay by girlonphire.
So, I decided to make the leger line experiment a composed introduction for a jazz quintet tune, with the first introductory part for bass ONLY, of course with some ad lib and rubato as the bassist desires. So those imaginary violin harmonics are really going to drop down much lower.
I am hearing this as a very minimalist art-jazz piece with avant influences in tribute to my past mentor, American composer James Tenney. (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006). Jim (James) would have loved the art sketch book hand-drawn staff large staffed music scoring paper! You can see a sample above, and note the random pen marks that took place when I fell asleep several times! :)
Shape-note score created by monks. A moving gift from James Tenney.
Jim Tenney used to ask me to notate my scores with an ink well and a quill, a pen nib, in the old-fashioned ancient style. Occasionally, an over-dipped-in-the-inkwell dripping pen with a random falling ink drop mistake would destroy carefully notated work, requiring a score restart. This was during the pre-computer era. Computers were not yet in most households the way that they are now.
Tenney had wanted me to learn notation very thoroughly so I could always notate my ideas. I managed to hear his work performed at Musikinstitut Darmstadt, West Germany, where I met his friend, composer John Cage. ♥ Cage and Tenney used to commonly program a room that was full of equipment from floor to ceiling, a massive computer, requiring hand-fed cardboard slots with inventive methods used to produce musical indeterminacy.
When I told Toronto's Jim in the 80s that I was moving to BC, he gifted me a wonderful shape-note framed antique music page written by monks that I have hanging on my wall to this day. This was how music was written before note heads became circles.
Album Project
I am excited about continuing to compose for an upcoming jazz album project and honoring my heart and intuitive imagined inventions.
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I am so happy with the new Substack format! It is my new writing hangout spot, I am reducing time on this Kit.com format, so catch me there on Substack and be sure to join me there! (It's free, but there are incentive perks for paid subscribers, with 35% off Oceanview Guitar Studio & Creative Services store discounts if you sign up as a premium user!) As you can see I have been much more active there. You can see what you have been missing and catch up with my articles for musicians, filmmakers, writers and creatives below.
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From Pixabay by Prawny. (Kerilie has always loved giraffes!!)
Avebury Moon Music & Film
Film Investor Access & Future Perks
As a filmmaker, and entrepreneur I am in the process of raising $1,000,000 USD as a founder ask to get my short film In the Zone: Rick Kilburn underway with educational distribution in Canada, the USA and globally and to release my first feature film. Our team feels this project is a proven winner with 14 international awards, and a massive digital footprint of 1.47 billion IMDb Pro cast hits. The story is captured and the audience is waiting. I’m looking for angel investors to help us navigate the final last post-production phase to get this award-winning piece onto global screens, and especially the education market, and onward with the feature film.
I am in the process now of applying for substantial film funding for post-production finishing, followed by the outline of products and events below for investor consideration.
Educational Products
My company Avebury Moon Music & Film has a plan for targeting the educational world through the purchase of library member lists and educational targeted lists, school educational licenses, event lectures, film clinics, and directing workshops for youth. Study and course workshops and high school and college study plans with educational kits consisting of the 10:37 duration 14-time award-winning film and 50 minute Director's Cut with behind the scenes footage are planned.
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Lesson plan
Discussion guide
Transcript
Licensing rights
Bonus interviews
PDF booklet
Access to a private Q&A with you (separate fee)
This is extremely attractive to universities.
Access Details
***I have the contact lists,
A membership film fan and In the Zone: Rick Kilburn Substack newsletter called Musicians & Filmies Jam, with blog interviews of corporate and member features.
Events Strategy
Senior, libraries, and community centres, jazz festivals, jazz mp3 downloads, jazz music sync.
Film society film showings featuring live jazz reception performance with an introduction, finale and Q& A with myself Director Kerilie McDowall.
Setting monthly revenue targets with corporate partnerships, collaborations and sponsorships, product endorsements, and events key note speaking, jazz and film event key notes, occasional Facebook Lives: JazzStorming, Riverside Podcasts, and more.
Merch
Merch such as DVDs, digital movie copies, mugs, framed posters, photo prints, journals, water bottles, and grocery tote bags are possible to purchase in the film website store, currently in design.
I am honored that In the Zone: Rick Kilburn was just selected in New York, USA, at the New York Film & Female Actress Award. Our film received an overall score of 10 out of 10, due to the talents of Rick Kilburn, the band, and the cast and crew, which was an honor and we look forward to seeing how the selection progresses! You can view the films Press Kit HERE OR Pitch Deck. Stay tuned for my new upcoming film website!
Led me to retitling a song in Dee's honour, fast forward past the chatty banter to the Sound Bath for a relaxing and meditative session.
SONG FOR DEE
**The Big Reveal
I hope you enjoyed your first guitar lesson! To hear the big reveal check out my interview with the ROAR Gallery with host Kimberly Stevens here who I just adored!
I am working on a book for composers and musicians about music sync (the intricacies of landing your music into film or TV) with USA film composer Mike Hall (who has 30 years of film composing behind him). The book is being written in my spare moments and we are looking at adding in sections on showrunners, music libraries and more for the modern musician and composer in 2026. So stay tuned that is in the works, it will progress as my time allots.
I recently had a blast guesting on Positive Talk Radiowith Kevin McDonald with the fabulous and talented Kevin McDonald and his gifted co-host Brichelle! You can check out the entire show here! We were talking about #jazz, #dance, #music, #film, #writing, #art, and more! (For all of you creativepreneurs!)
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COMING UP
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Award-winning TV Director-filmmaker/radio host, jazz guitarist, and composer Kerilie McDowall instructs and coaches guitarists, creatives, writers, non-profits, businesses, on-the-rise musicians, and new film directors at Oceanview Guitar Studio & Creative Services in Nanaimo, BC, Canada.
Kerilie has been a JUNO Awards judge from (2016-2025), a Polaris Music Prize juror (2018-2026), MiMc Music Awards judge (2025/26), and a DownBeat Critics Poll music judge (2016-2026). She coaches emerging recording artists and JUNO winners/nominees, with the fine art and etiquette of the press and publicity, album and JUNO awards prep, music sync, and writing, as well as grant writing.
View Kerilie McDowall’s current writing work in her blog, In the Zen, and at All About Jazz and past work in DownBeat (2016-2020), INSPIRED 55+, Canadian Musician, and the Canadian Antique Phonograph Society.
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As the founder of Oceanview Guitar Studio & Creative Services, and Avebury Moon Music & Film, 17 x award-winning guitarist-filmmaker Kerilie McDowall offers guitar instruction, music industry coaching, and workshops from sound bathing, publicity/understanding the press to film. She’s coached and worked instructing non-profit groups from opera to theatre, to guitarists of all levels, JUNO and Polaris-winning musicians, to new film directors, and young filmmakers. As a professional publicist, she can also teach you a few tricks that you will just not want to miss, with crucial-to-your-success press, TV, radio, blog/podcast industry guidance, with important timelines and guidelines.
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