HALIFAX – A group of Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) students is hoping the power of Taylor Swift will help them get to the East Coast Music Awards.
The students are in the Music Business program at NSCC and want to volunteer at the ECMAs as part of East Coast Music Week, which runs April 8 to 12.
“I’m really excited to go and have the opportunity to be in a room with a lot of people who could potentially hire us,” said student Kristin Cameron.
“It’s going to be the ultimate networking experience for our class since we’re in the music business,” said student Szeren Domokos. “We really want to get to know all the people we can in the industry, all the local people, all the artists.”
Cameron, who aspires to manage musicians one day, is organizing a fundraiser that will be held at Friday’s Taylor Swift Appreciation Night in Halifax.
The students have created a pseudo photo booth with a backdrop of New York City and will have Taylor Swift inspired props, such as giant red lips and heart-shaped sunglasses.
“Taylor Swift’s new album 1989 is basically all Polaroid so we are going to take that idea and take pictures of people if they want,” said Domokos.
“It will be a nice tie-in to her album and we’ll write a lyric on it on the bottom of the Polaroid.”
Both women are die-hard Taylor Swift fans and said the cost for people to take a picture in their photo booth is by donation.
The fundraiser is just one of several the students have been holding during their one-year program.
The women estimate it will cost $620 for each student to fly and room in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where the ECMAs is being held, and there are 25 students in the program.
Though the group recently received $8,000 from the NSCC Waterfront Campus Student Association and the school’s Your Entrepreneurial Self program, the women admit they have a long way to go and hope Friday’s fundraiser can help.
“We know it’s a daunting task,” Cameron said. “Getting to St. John’s logistically is very hard because it is very expensive to not only fly there but to stay there because it’s in the middle of nowhere.”
“It’s going to be really hard to raise the money but we’re doing everything we can to try and get there at a really low cost.”
“It’s just an extra thing that we can do. The lower we can get our costs, the better,” Domokos said.
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