Fiesta Equestria, the fan convention taking place next month in Houston, Texas has announced that Michelle Creber, the voice of Applebloom will be attending the event from 28th-30th of June. She’ll also be performing onstage, opening for the band Hey Ocean!
For all the details please read the press release below:
The upcoming Sweet Apple Acres Con has announced that Lee Tokar, the recently emmy nominated voice actor for Snips and the sea serpent Steven Magnet will be attending the convention this July in Nashville, Tennessee.
For more information about registration and the convention, you can read the full press release below.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has been nominated in two categories for Overall Sound and Musical Score of the 2013 Leo Awards,the industry awards for the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British Columbia.
Daniel Ingram and Stephan Andrews (Composers) have been nominated in the category ‘Best Musical Score in an Animated Program or Series’ for their work on the Season 3 episode Magical Mystery Cure.
While a second nomination in the category of ‘Best Overall Sound in an Animation Program or Series’ include Marcel Duperreault, Todd Araki, Jason Fredrickson, Adam McGhie for their work on Sleepless in Ponyville. ■
[Source: Leo Awards]
An article by the New York Times has revealed a lot of new information about the upcoming cinema screening of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.
“Our goal is to stay true to who those characters are,” said Meghan McCarthy, the head writer for the movie, adding that the high school setting allowed for new storytelling possibilities. “It’s new but still an extension of our mythology.”
While a trailer has also been released, which can be viewed here. Or below: ■
[Source: NYTimes]
The Brony Thank You Fund, a charity which has done much in the past has now received it’s Tax-Exemp Public Charity status from the American Internal Revenue Service. This means that all donations made are now tax-deductible. The good news is that this applies retroactively to all donations made since the 8th May 2012, if you have donated since that date you can use the receipt to claim money back on your income tax.
To celebrate that the fund has become the one and only federally recognized Brony charity, on Monday they will be holding a donation give-away with chances to wing a ‘heavily autographed poster’ one of two dozen MLP trading card mats or even Sibsy’s drawing of your OC.
For more details, visit their website or read more below.
Bronycon 2013 has announced that Michelle Creber, the voice actor for Apple Bloom and the singing voice of Sweetie Belle, will be attending this years Bronycon fan convention this August in Baltimore.
Read more for the full press release.
A new website for the music side of the community has recently launched. Pony.fm is a music hosting site for music content creators, allowing users to upload and promote their work in a variety of formats on a database with extensive search terms.
Pony.fm is a music hosting site for bronies. The goal of the site is to do for pony music what Fimfiction did for pony fan fiction: provide a platform for creators to host and archive their work, built by fans for fans. Like Bandcamp, the site accepts lossless uploads and provides perfectly tagged downloads in a variety of formats; but it also allows users to follow each other, mark songs as favourites, create downloadable albums and playlists, and more.
Furthermore, Pony.fm also has fandom-specific features that can’t be found on the mainstream sites like YouTube and SoundCloud, such as the ability to search for tracks based on whether they’re original or a remix, the song they’re a remix of, etc. Not to mention that it offers unlimited downloads for free – an issue that many artists struggle with on Bandcamp and SoundCloud, often having to resort to file hosting services like Dropbox or MediaFire that require the artist to maintain tags and alternative formats themselves – which they usually don’t, leading to a poor experience for listeners who want to grab a song and chuck it on their iPod.
As a gift to the brony community, Pony.fm has truly been a labour of love. After nine months of development and five months in private alpha, it’s finally ready for the greater fandom to come in and start filling it with music.
~Feld0
Pony.fm – Founder, Lead Developer
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IDW has revealed all of the variant covers for the upcoming Issue #7 MLP:FIM comic book which will go on sale May 16th.
Written by Heather Nufer, art by Amy Mebberson and colours from Heather Breckel; Issue #7 continues the story arc of the mainline comics with the next adventure that our little equines have been tasked with.
You can view preview pages for Issue #7 on iTunes or our website here, or discuss the MLP comics on our forums here.
To read a story synopsis and view the rest of the pretty covers (potential spoilers) click below.
TrotCon 2013 has announced some guest attendance changes for the convention next month. Joining the guest lineup are FIM writer Dave Polsky and voice actor Peter New. Sadly Lee Tokar will not be appearing at the convention due to a scheduling conflict his Emmy nomination awards night, best of luck Lee!
Meanwhile, prolific voice actor Tabitha St. Germain will be attending the inaugural BronyCan convention this August in British Columbia, Canada.
You can read the two announcements in full below:
The 2nd Annual Behind The Voice Actor Awards took place this week and the winners list has just been announced. The voices behind My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic didn’t take out an editors choice award but were able to win two fan favorite awards plus a number of other nominations.
The cast of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic voice actors won the fan poll for ‘Best Vocal Ensemble in a Television Series – Children’s/Educational‘. Those included in the cast award are Ashleigh Ball, Tabitha St Germain, Tara Strong, Andrea Libman, Cathy Weseluck, Nicole Oliver, Michelle Creber, Madeleine Peters, Claire Corlett and Peter New.
Britt McKillip won the Peoples Choice vote in the ‘Best Female Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Guest Role‘ category for her role as Princess Mi Amore ‘Cadence’ Cadenza.
The winners of the ‘General’ awards are announced tomorrow, with Tara Strong being nominated for ‘Female Voice Actress of the Year‘ and Claire Corlett nominated for ‘Best Female Vocal Performance by a Child‘ as Sweetie Belle.
You can find the full list of winners here. ■
[Source: BVTA]
