February 2021 News

by Makenzie Shattler



BRP has partnered with rock legend JOAN JETT and hip-hop star SAINt JHN. Together they will take part in the new Can-Am On-Road ad campaign dubbed "Outliers". This is an effort to celebrate the diversity of the on-road riding community.

JOAN JETT is known for her top billboard hits and is no stranger to diversity being a successful female rocker of the 1980s. She has had many gold and platinum albums along with many singles that have reached the Top 40 charts across the world.



Saint Jhn is an American-Guyanese rapper, singer, and songwriter known for his hit song "Roses" released in 2016 that was surged to topping billboards after a remix was released in 2019. He is also known for music producing and working with some of the hip hop industry's biggest names like Beyonce, Kanye West, Future, and even music icon Lenny Kravitz.

Outliers use the powerful voices of the music icons to help raise awareness surrounding rider diversity. This campaign will support everyone and anyone looking to join the riding community. It will directly challenge the stereotypes currently associated with on-road riders.

See the press release from BRP below:

by Michele Amabile Angermiller



Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS and more will appear virtually as part of this year's three-day "Winter Love Fest" for Light of Day, the New Jersey charity event which raises funds and awareness in the fight against Parkinson's disease.

Highlights from Springsteen's 2020 "Light of Day" appearance at the Paramount in Asbury Park (pictured) - where he joined Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers for a 75-minute set - will be online during the Saturday night (Feb. 13) stream, which will be available through YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook live channels. Van Zandt fans will get a treat with clips from his Disciples of Soul's 2017 appearance and tribute to the Beatles at the Cavern Club.

Over three days and 15 hours of streaming content, the extravaganza will feature new and old clips from over 80 artists who've participated in the past, including Linda Chorney, Low Cut Connie, Glen Burtnik, Jeffrey Gaines, Dramarama, Steve Forbert, Willie Nile, John Eddie & His Dirty 'Ol Band, Jesse Malin, Williams Honor, Bruce Springsteen fan group the "Spring-Nuts" and more.

"In typical Light of Day Fashion, we just went above and beyond sanity," says festival director Tony Pallagrosi. "I was thinking about reining it in and making it manageable, but there was something that wasn't very exciting or Light of Day about it. So I decided to throw caution to the wind and let's go for it and make it more like Light of Day.

Pallagrosi revealed that over the last two years, the fundraiser dubbed "Bob's Birthday Bash," in honor of music industry veteran Bob Benjamin, who has been battling Parkinson's since 1996, was recorded professionally.

by Rosy Cordero



Miley Cyrus kicked-off Super Bowl Sunday with a little help from rock legends JOAN JETT and Billy Idol.

Cyrus headlined the TikTok Tailgate celebration in Tampa, Florida ahead of the big game that'll see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against the Kansas City Chiefs starting at 6:30 p.m. ET live on CBS.

She performed popular hits off her seventh studio album Plastic Hearts including "Bad Karma" with Jett and "Night Crawling" with Idol. She also honored Jett and Idol by performing two of their hits, "Bad Reputation" and "White Wedding," respectively.

What made the concert even more special was the audience of 75,000 vaccinated Florida-based healthcare workers attending the COVID-19 safe soiree in person.

"This is my first show in about a year, and I couldn't imagine a better way to do this than in Tampa, surrounded by healthcare heroes," she told the audience.

She also thanked them by reading out some of their names and dedicating the song "High" to them saying, "it could never repay you for your services."