Calls for transparency come after women account for small percentage of ECMA winners
This year's East Coast Music Awards were unusual in many ways amid a global pandemic, but the small number of women who actually won brought up long-standing conversations around gender parity in the Atlantic music scene.
Kimberly Sinclair owns SpinCount, a Nova Scotia music promotions firm, and is a former ECMA board member. She said the percentage of women who took home awards this weekend "does not match" the actual industry she works with every day.