News

April 30, 2012

Jayhas been nominated in the Best Gospel Song category in the International Independent Music Awards !

He is the lone Canadian !!

You can vote for him here !!

February 14, 2012

Jay's new record 'Sending Love' is released today in shops and on Itunes !!!

It is also available for purchase or download in our shop !     Just click on 'Stuff To Buy' above
to find it !!

September 14, 2011

Jay has a new single going to radio this week !

'Party In the Parking Lot (The Football Song)' is available for download here.

June 30, 2011

Congratulations to Jay for his nomination for 'Songwriter Of the Year' at the Western Canadian Music Awards !!

The nominated track is Before You Leave Canada, which you can purchase

here

June 1, 2011

Jay Semko's new single 'Nobody's Watching' from his new s/t album has just been released in time for Valentine's Day !!  

The single's smooth as honeysuckle catchy chorus along with its yearning for anothers heart is sure to fire off Cupid's arrow !

Bio

Jay Semko is known worldwide as singer/songwriter/bassist with multi-platinum Canadian pop icons the Northern Pikes, and as an award winning music composer for numerous film and television productions, including one of Canada's most successful internationally syndicated series, "Due South". Jay's songwriting and composing for film &TV has earned 2 Canadian Music Publisher Association Awards, 5 Juno Award nominations as a member of the  Pikes,  and 2 Gemini Award nominations for Best Original Music Score in a Dramatic Series, among many others. He has co-written with many well-known songwriters in Canada and beyond, and was recently nominated in the 2011 Western Canadian Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year.

In addition to Jay's numerous albums with the Northern Pikes, Jay now has 9 solo releases on Canada's premiere roots/alternative label Busted Flat Records. Jay has toured across Canada numerous times, played at SXSW in Austin, Texas, and also performed at the International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. He has received many stellar reviews, and his solo albums have charted highly on the Canadian
!earshot Folk/Roots/Blues charts.

His newest album,  "Sending Love",  features 11 new songs written by Jay, all lyrically woven in a tapestry of love, sensuality, and spirituality. Early reviews are suggesting that "Sending Love" may be Jay's finest work ever……in Jay's words:
 " I kept calling this 'the romance album' as I worked on it - all the songs are sewn together in a subconscious stew of love and raw emotion…I just laid everything on the line, straight from my heart, both lyrically and musically…."

Jay's songs, film & television scores, and legendary live performances continue to garner him international recognition as one of Canada's most prolific musical talents. 

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