HALIFAX—With his extravagant wiry beard, thick black-rimmed glasses, and a mop of unruly hair, Ben Caplan doesn’t look like a typical businessman.
But the Halifax-based musician is one of many Canadian artists who are at the helm of their careers, handling the business side of their music.
It’s a rising trend in the music industry, said Caplan.
“If you want to make a living as a musician, particularly as a songwriter, I think you have to have some entrepreneurial sensibility,” the folk singer-songwriter said in a recent interview, sipping black coffee from a white ceramic mug at a bustling north-end Halifax cafe.
There aren't labels handing out money to people on experiments. Those days are gone.
