HONOUR ROLL 2025

16th Annual MMF Canada Honour Roll
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Illuminarium 28 Distillery Lane, Toronto, ON)

This year’s MMF Canada Honour Roll included a new partnership with Billboard Canada and their Managers to Watch list. A combined celebration was held to bring together managers and industry to recognize some of the best doing the behind the scenes but crucial work of supporting artists and keeping the industry flowing. Thank you to Billboard Canada for your commitment to highlighting and sharing the stories of managers and for working with us to shine a spotlight on these unsung heroes. Thank you also to the team from MMF Canada, Billboard Canada, and Illuminarium for all of their work to make this night happen. And of course, congratulations to the 2025 MMF Canada Honour Roll Awards recipients!

Honour Roll Award - ROBBIE LACKRITZ

Robbie Lackritz is a Canadian-American producer and artist manager whose technical mastery of studio and live production, paired with a collaborative gift for empowering artists and technicians, has helped shape indie music for the past twenty years. He blends meticulous craftsmanship with spirited mentorship—equipping artists and production teams with the tools and confidence to push creative limits, resulting in landmark recordings that have garnered billions of streams and boundary-breaking performances on the world’s most prestigious stages.

His two decade long collaboration with Feist across studio, live production, and management includes recording the multi-platinum-selling The Reminder, the Polaris Music Prize–winning Metals, and the Grammy-nominated Multitudes — each recognized by The New York Times as Albums of the Year (Feist remains the only artist to achieve this three times). He spent over half a decade overseeing the creation of Feist’s in-the-round live residency for Multitudes—performed with custom surround audio and video—where intimate reveals and immersive visuals earned praise as one of the most uniquely inventive concert experiences. Over their time together, Feist has won 14 Juno Awards, garnered five Grammy nominations, and appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” “Sesame Street,” and at iconic venues like the Hollywood Bowl, solidifying her place as one of Indie music’s most revered artists.

Robbie has worked in Bahamas’ ascent from introspective singer-songwriter to multi-award-winning artist. Barchords (2012) was named iTunes Singer-Songwriter Album of the Year; Bahamas Is Afie (2014) earned Junos for Adult Alternative Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. Earthtones (2018) garnered a Grammy nomination and won the Juno for Adult Alternative Album of the Year. In 2023, Robbie helped craft Bootcut—Afie’s classic-country-infused release that received a CCMA nomination for Alternative Country Album of the Year—further cementing Bahamas’ status as a five-time Juno winner and Grammy nominee. Bahamas has six 100 million+ stream albums with Gold and Platinum RIAA certifications for Lost In The Light and All The Time.

Lackritz is also a multi–Grammy-nominated producer and engineer. In addition to his work with Feist and Bahamas, he has worked on albums with Alvvays, Madison Cunningham, Jack Johnson, Peach Pit, Robbie Robertson, and The Weather Station—and produced the first album made in space by astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield. With collective credits including over five million albums sold worldwide and more than two billion streams, he has appeared in Tape Op, The New York Times, Spin and was heralded by the CBC “the secret weapon of Canadian music”.

Ryhna Thompson has been an artist, entrepreneur, manager, producer, leader and builder in the Canadian and international cultural and creative industries for over two decades. As the Founder and President of Envision Management & Production an artist management company since 2002 which has expanded to support artists through a range of approaches, she and her team work with artists to conceive, produce and manage artists and musical projects, often in the realm where music intersects with film, animation, theatre, literature and interactivity, and all in the context of building long-term careers.

An innovator, projects have ranged widely from Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall (a stage production adapted from his graphic novel involving the real-time creation of a film through the choreographed work of a team of puppeteers, crew, live scored by Kid Koala and a string quartet); Richard Reed Parry’s Quiet River of Dust Dome show (a live music performance immersed in 360 film); to Floor Kids (a hand-drawn animated music and breakdance video game now available on 5 platforms).  

Always keen to contribute to her communities and to support a healthy, sustainable, positive and innovative creative economy, Ryhna has sat on numerous non-profit boards and committees including serving as President of the Music Managers Forum Canada. A lifelong learner, Ryhna has engaged in numerous professional development experiences since graduating from McGill University and has been a Leadership Fellow with the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Eager to pay forward her learnings, Ryhna has served as a mentor and speaker at conferences and in educational settings in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East, and has developed initiatives such as the Pathwaves Digital Literacy Incubator.