Umbrella Closes Up

By Joshua Errett

Canadian music is a strange fruit. We’ll finance Fefe Dobson’s album with government grants, but we let slide the infrastructure that helps musicians in greater need. UmbrellaMusic, a site rich in bandwidth but not in advertisements, was a part of that infrastructure. And finally, after a few months of inactivity, UmbrellaMusic.com will officially close on Tuesday – six years after it launched.