Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection (Music Summit and Film Screening)

In collaboration with the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM), the National Music Centre (NMC) brings notable speakers to Calgary to explore the cultural synergies between Canadian and American music.

Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection brings together industry leaders to discuss how cross-border Canadian-U.S. influences have shaped generations of artists, with a special focus on the ’60s and ’70s Laurel Canyon era, where songwriting visionaries like Joni Mitchell and Neil Young made their mark at home and beyond.

This summit includes a carefully curated lineup of speakers from Canada and the U.S., including Rob Bowman, a Canadian GRAMMY Award-winning musicologist, known as York University’s “rock ‘n’ roll professor”; Nicholas Jennings, one of Canada’s most respected music journalists and finest music historians; Eileen Chapman, Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in New Jersey, who was responsible for bringing the collection to the University; Robert Santelli, a GRAMMY Award-winning music historian, producer, and educator, who is the Executive Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music; and more speakers to be announced soon.

Summit Schedule — Saturday, October 4