Nadia Elkharadly: Toronto International Music Summit – Year One

This Saturday I had the good fortune to attend the first annual Toronto International Music Summit.  The summit was founded by Tanya Michell, working with director Laponne Burton.  Held at the Royal York Hotel, which seems to host a fair amount of music related things, this summit was meant to bring together fledgling and veteran artists and musicians, industry experts and other businessy types whose brains and experience in the music world were ripe for the picking.  The day was divided into four panel discussions, two celebrity talks and a workshop to end the day.  And of course, no music extravaganza would be complete without, well, actual music, which took place at the Hard Rock Café that night.