Misfit Music Inc. exists to ensure artists don’t have to build their careers alone.

We believe art is not a destination - it’s an extension of who you are. Our role is to help artists understand that, build from it, and evolve with intention.

Through artist-first strategy, infrastructure, and long-term thinking, we support music entrepreneurs in building sustainable careers rooted in identity, values, and real audience connection. We challenge the status quo by prioritizing clarity over hype, collaboration over gatekeeping, values over opportunity, and longevity over short-term wins.

We intentionally invest in underrepresented artists across Misfit Management, Misfit Live, and Odd Doll Records (label). Through our broader services, we help artists and music organizations build strategy, strengthen their tools, expand their networks, and move forward with greater clarity and direction.

Our team is made up of experienced music professionals with expertise spanning live performance, marketing, touring, funding, and systems development. Collectively, the team has received multiple industry nominations and awards, and the company has been recognized with a 2024 Western Canadian Music Award nomination for Impact in Artist Development and a 2025 Women in Music Canada Honours nomination for Organization of the Year.

MEET
THE MISFITS

ELISE
Founder & Director of Creative Marketing, Label Operations, and Artist Management

  • Roller publicly launched Misfit Music Management in 2021 with the announcement of its full-time roster and innovative Artist Evolution program. In 2023, she was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year at the Women in Music Canada Honours, received Manitoba’s Kevin Walters Legacy award, and has been nominated for Manager of the Year at the Canadian Live Music Awards two years in a row, making the shortlist in 2024.

    Roller has been actively involved in the Canadian music scene since 2008 first beginning as a self-managed artist with multiple projects, then throwing in the artist hat to put on a power suit a decade later. She spent four years as the Industry Development Coordinator at Manitoba Music where she connected music creators and industry professionals on an international scale, building training programs, and offering career development consultations to music entrepreneurs. She served four years as Pride Winnipeg’s main stage producer, has booked and managed tours for a number of Canadian acts, and has been successful at securing funds and building teams for a variety of musicians and projects.

    Roller is a social butterfly, master networker, and has an innate ability to connect with anyone and everyone. Her drive for excellence along with her passion to motivate, inspire, and show appreciation for music creators has positioned her as a beloved leader and mentor within the global music community.

CLAIRE
Artist Development & Management / Projects & Partnerships Lead

  • Claire Boning has spent her career finding the connection between artistic vision and organizational impact. This thread runs through everything she does as Co-Owner, CFO, Artist Manager, and Projects & Partnerships Lead at Misfit Music Inc. She currently manages Country/Americana artist Jade Turner, while also driving the company's partnerships with arts organizations and businesses, leading event coordination, and developing artist education initiatives including workshops, mentorships, and programs. Claire is also a co-creator of Backstage Book Club, a music industry book club bringing artists and industry together online and at conferences across the country.

    With years of experience as a recording and touring musician, event and program coordination at Manitoba Music and several years in artist management, Claire brings a rare blend of creative instinct and organizational precision to everything she touches. Her work is driven by a genuine commitment to community, connecting artists and organizations to the people, knowledge, and opportunities that help them grow.

CHRIS
Creative Marketing & Label Operations Manager / Artist Administration

  • Chris is the Misfit glue, holding the team together with his attention to detail, research skills, and eclectic music tastes alongside marketing, writing, and design skills. With a Management Certificate, Marketing Management Diploma, Public Relations and Strategic Communication Diploma, and Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications Degree, he’s a multifaceted professional who’s been instrumental in the growth and development of Misfit Music Inc. and its artists.

    Chris is a director at Misfit who oversees Distribution, Live Performance, and Marketing Communications. He handles the day-to-day with live performance logistics, and creative writing assets like bios and marketing plans. Chris also leads creative marketing, including brand development and digital media.

    Chris loves the arts, and, in addition to countless hours of personal study, he’s always broadening his music knowledge through mentorships, industry workshops, conferences, seminars and the like, as well as writing Exclaim! and previously for Stylus Magazine.

    All about purposeful work, Chris is driven to help people tell their stories, find their audience, grow their communities, and succeed in meaningful ways.

TALIA
Executive Operations Manager 

  • Talia joined Misfit Music Management in 2025 as Executive Assistant, supporting all aspects of our work. With a background as both an artist and creative administrator, she enables the Misfit team and artists to do their best work by creating innovative, people-centered systems that support their unique needs within an evolving music industry.

    Before joining Misfit, Talia began building her own creative career as an artist, songwriter, producer, and dancer, bringing perspective and empathy to the challenges artists face while developing their careers. As a neurodivergent creative who relies and thrives on systems, she pairs this understanding with an affinity (some may say an obsession) for out-of-the-box organization. What began as a mission to rid her life of things she didn’t want to do became the realization that she could build a way of living that genuinely supports who she is. Now she brings that into her work, designing custom boxes rather than expecting people to fold. As a human, she's a perceptive, intuitive straight-shooter incapable of understanding subtext, yet oddly gifted at understanding people and making them feel seen.

HOLLIS
Director of Live Performance & Artist Management (Misfit Live)

  • Hollis Brunt is the Live Performance Manager at Misfit Music Inc., where they specialize in touring and live strategies, including performance bookings, community engagement, and acting and speaking opportunities for artists. With a keen eye for detail and passion for live music, Hollis ensures every concert, tour, and engagement runs seamlessly, taking concepts to completion through negotiations, contracting, advancing, and tour management. Hollis has expanded Misfit’s artist services with a dedicated focus on building a dynamic roster of 2SLGBTQIA+ artists - continuing the company’s mission to champion underrepresented voices in music and create inclusive spaces across the live performance landscape in North America and abroad.

SCARLETT
Artist Evolution Consultant / Admin

  • Scarlett Flynn is a Toronto-based singer, songwriter, producer, and the owner of Running Red Lights Entertainment, with over 20 years of experience in Canada’s music scene. A seasoned performer, she has toured extensively across Canada and Europe, sharing stages with The Counting Crows,Great Big Sea, among others. Her songs—rooted in folk, pop, and alt-country—have been featured on CBC, BBC, and commercial radio.

    As one half of the duo Wolfville, Scarlett blends raw emotional storytelling with rich acoustic textures. She is a multi-time recipient of grants from FACTOR, SOCAN, and the Canada Council for the Arts, and has earned accolades from international songwriting competitions. Scarlett also co-created Indie Fish TV, a CAC-supported performance series, and works closely with community-based music programs like the Massey Hall/UHN Lullaby Project.

    In addition to her performance and songwriting work, Scarlett is trained in advanced Sync Strategies for Film and Television and is building a catalogue of songs for placement. She continues to champion independent Canadian music through mentorship and creative and artistic development.

MJ
Artist Evolution Consultant

  • MJ DANDENEAU is a French Métis/Anishinaabe woman from the Red River Nation Treaty 1. Over the past 20 years her tours, studio and composition work have literally taken her all over the globe and nationally recognized with recording awards such as Canadian JUNO’s, WCMA-Awards, CFM-Awards as well as the Kevin Walters Legacy Award, Indigenous Full Circle Prize and The Rise Award.  MJ’s multi-faceted talents have given her, through her own business, MJ Entertainment Canada Inc, the ability to be an effective Booking Agent, Tour Manager, Career Consulter, Musical Director and Producer for the past 20 years as well as landing the Sound Designer & Composer hat for theatres across Canada. 

    Her involvement in the industry has led her sit on various juries and consultation committees such as Canada Art Council, FACTOR, Manitoba Art Council, Winnipeg Art Council, OCFF, WCMA and JUNO Awards. Further, she is an active industry board member for Aboriginal Music Manitoba, Manitoba Art Council Indigenous Advisory Board, American Federation of Musicians, and Conseil Elzéar-Goulet. 

    MJ’s mission is not only to be working to strengthen Indigenous communities but more importantly providing mentorship, sharing her knowledge, and instilling the values passed down to her of patience, respect, integrity, and kindness in youth to develop future community leaders.