In Memory of Angus MacKay
The Angus MacKay – MIA bursary has been established by friends and colleagues of Angus MacKay to recognize and honour Angus Mackay, a graduate of the MIA program and co-founder of Ready Records. On June 15, 2010, the Canadian Music Industry lost one of the “good guys” with the death of Angus MacKay. Angus was born and raised in the Toronto area, and spent the last three decades creating, developing, and managing not less than four different record labels. Angus is best known as one of the founding partners in Ready Records. Ready Records became a brief home for the likes of Teenage Head, The Guess Who, as well as the first ever all Canadian cast recording of Anne of Green Gables.
Impact
The Angus MacKay MIA Bursary has been created as an endowed fund to recognize in perpetuity Angus MacKay’s contributions to the music industry. His career and the establishment of Ready Records was a remarkable achievement. This bursary will be awarded each year to a student in the Music Industry Arts program at Fanshawe College who is entering the second year of the music industry arts program who has a cumulative Grade point average of 3.0 in the previous two levels of the program. This student also has expressed a strong interest in pursuing a career in music industry arts upon graduation from Fanshawe College.