All of us at MVO: The Voice-Over Guys couldn’t be happier for him or prouder of him!

The Voice Arts Award  nominations were announced Monday, October 4th by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS).

The promo was for Canada’s Travel & Escape network (T+E) in support of their weekday programming block called Boo! Brunch. Shows featuring in the block included Ghost Hunters, Destination Truth and A Haunting.

Winners will be announced during the 3rd Annual Voice Arts Awards, to be held on Sunday, November 13, 2016 at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.

ABOUT DAVE MCRAE
Dave McRae is a full time professional voice over artist based in Toronto Canada with nearly 20 years of experience. He is a 2015 Voice Arts Award Nominee for Outstanding National Television Promo, Best Voice Over, for his work with the Canadian network Travel and Escape (T&E).

With an incredible vocal range that literally speaks for itself, Dave’s voice is one of the most sought after and respected voices in Canada and across North America. His voice has been heard on thousands of Radio and Television Commercials, Network Promos, Movie and Game Trailers, Corporate Presentation and Training Videos, IVR’s, Narration, Animation and more.

McRae is heard nationally as the narrator of Four Weddings Canada (now in repeats and syndication), What’s For Sale With A View, the network promo and imaging voice for the adventure channel Travel and Escape (T&E), the Smithsonian Channel Canada, and as the announcer for SCENE Card during the pre-show presentation in Cineplex Theatres.

McRae’s voice has been heard in commercials and promos for Big Brother Canada, Toyota, Red Bull, Lexus, Netflix, Cineplex, Time Warner Cable, The Toronto Blue Jays, Source For Sports, ITravel2000, The Shopping Channel, DELL, Disney, Nestle, Rogers, LCBO, All Star Wings And Ribs, Next Issue, Jack Astors, Tangerine, and on such networks as CBC, AMC, NBC, TSN, CTV, SLICE, FOOD, YTV and CITY TV to name but a few.

McRae can voice spots 24/7 right from his professional home studio.

A true professional, Dave McRae’s voice will complete your vision.

ABOUT SOVAS
The Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) was established on August 26, 2013 under the New York State Department of State Division of Corporations, pursuant to the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. The founding members, Rudy Gaskins and Joan Baker, created the SOVAS in direct response to a growing need to provide education, training and job opportunities in support of working voice actors and those people seeking to establish gainful careers as voice actors. At its core, SOVAS was first conceived in the year 2005 as a book written by Joan Baker, called Secrets of Voiceover Success. This was the first book ever the chronicled the career journeys of America’s top voice actors, unveiling practical career guidance as it primary theme. Traditional book signings followed and gradually grew into ticketed community events and workshop offerings for the public. These events evolved into an annual career expo named That’s Voiceover!and the Voice Arts® Awards which are the two primary components of SOVAS.

ABOUT T+E
Passionate about discovery and dedicated to telling amazing stories about the exotic and familiar, T+E leaves audiences feeling carried away. Join our adventure-seeking personalities as they embrace new situations—trying the food, discovering the scenery, and meeting new people. It’s a break from the everyday, without the hassle of packing.

T+E is operated in Canada by Blue Ant Media, the country’s fastest growing media player.

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Former Phoenix resident and voice actor BRUCE MILES is all about his Redbirds in this week’s matchup and why not? They made it all the way to NFC Championship Game, only to fall to Carolina.

Popular voiceover talent and proud Torontonian DAVE MCRAE is a die-hard Buffalo Bills supporter — and no one has died harder for the past 20+ playoff-less seasons than the Buffalo Bills. This is a make-or-get-fired season for Bills Head Coach Rex Ryan and Arizona could provide an extremely tough battle for Buffalo.

Good luck to Bruce Miles and Dave McRae in their Week 3 matchup.

ABOUT MALE VOICE TALENT BRUCE MILES

Bruce has been an actor for over 40 years in Television, Film, Radio, Theater
and now behind the mic in his own studio in Portlandia. He’s a credible
Storyteller for things fanciful to technical. While he is not a Zoo, he has played
almost every Animal you can imagine, for adults as well as kids. As a life-long
performing Actor, he brings Characters and normal people to life.

Bruce also relishes the Technical read, easily handling complex Medical and
Scientific copy. He’s a persuader too, recording hundreds of Political
commercials each election year and many more in between. His national work
this past year includes voiceovers for Wheat Thins, a series of Target Christmas
commercials, and Mary Brown’s Famous Chicken and Taters, big you know in
Canada, eh?

ABOUT MALE VOICE TALENT DAVE MCRAE

Dave McRae is a full time professional voice over artist based in Toronto Canada with nearly 20 years of experience. He is a 2015 Voice Arts Award Nominee for Outstanding National Television Promo, Best Voice Over, for his work with the Canadian network Travel and Escape (T&E).

With an incredible vocal range that literally speaks for itself, Dave’s voice is one of the most sought after and respected voices in Canada and across North America. His voice has been heard on thousands of Radio and Television Commercials, Network Promos, Movie and Game Trailers, Corporate Presentation and Training Videos, IVR’s, Narration, Animation and more.

McRae is heard nationally as the narrator of Four Weddings Canada (now in repeats and syndication), What’s For Sale With A View, the network promo and imaging voice for the adventure channel Travel and Escape (T&E), the Smithsonian Channel Canada, and as the announcer for SCENE Card during the pre-show presentation in Cineplex Theatres.

McRae’s voice has been heard in commercials and promos for Big Brother Canada, Toyota, Red Bull, Lexus, Netflix, Cineplex, Time Warner Cable, The Toronto Blue Jays, Source For Sports, ITravel2000, The Shopping Channel, DELL, Disney, Nestle, Rogers, LCBO, All Star Wings And Ribs, Next Issue, Jack Astors, Tangerine, and on such networks as CBC, AMC, NBC, TSN, CTV, SLICE, FOOD, YTV and CITY TV to name but a few.

McRae can voice spots 24/7 right from his professional home studio.

A true professional, Dave McRae’s voice will complete your vision.

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Our motto for this series is “Zen there, done that.”

Today’s Voice-Over Zen is brought to you by DAVE MCRAE.

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In Week 11’s MVO: The Voice-Over Guys’ NFL Showdown, CHUCK DAVIS and his New England buddies host DAVE MCRAE’s resilient Buffalo team in what the Western New York team hopes will be a dramatic reversal of their Week 2 meeting.

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MATT COWLRICK takes Miami and DAVE MCRAE supports Buffalo (as every thoughtful person really should).

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Here’s a quick summary as they have come into MVO Central.

DAN FRIEDMAN – Dan has just released a new political voice-over demo and has voiced for Garmin, Target, Kroger and Primanti Bros. restaurants.

CHUCK DAVIS – Chuck completed a national TV campaign for Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield that will be running this fall and he’s added “FX – India” as a promo TV client.

SCOTT BURNS – MVO’s Scott Burns will be the voice of the conductor on the “Blue Bird Express” and other lines for Lionel Trains soon to be released “Imagineering” products on shelves likely in time for Christmas.

DAVE MCRAE – Dave just finished some international television spots for Mitsubishi and Keurig, national radio ads for Itravel2000, Toyota, Walmart, and American Express, and continues to be the voice of SCENE card in ads in Cineplex movie theaters across Canada. His new show “What’s For Sale With A View” for which he narrates, has just finished airing season one on the channel Cottage Life.

CHRISTIAN ROSSELLI – Christian has been busy on a few exciting new projects including a new upcoming campaigns for Purina, added radio station imaging duties for KUPH (Today’s Hit Music, 96.9 FM The Fox) plus a nature documentary he narrated last year “Tortoise in Peril” has won multiple festival awards and will be showing this Fall at the New York Film Festival.

ROWELL GORMON – Rowell recently played a “Farmer” for a radio spot for Travelers Insurance and a Manager character in a training audio for Xerox. He also recently completed his third children’s i-Phone game app, “Fishin’ with Grandpa”.

PETER K. O’CONNELL – O’Connell helped Papa John’s Pizza sell some pies this summer, voicing spots that tied in a promotion with Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins. Peter also voiced a series of commercials for Hudson Heritage Federal Credit Union and completed narration voice-over work for Zaycon Foods, Silobagcheck and was also the narration voice on series of high-end real estate videos for prominent U.S. realtor. He’s also got new narration and TV promo demos.

MATT COWLRICK – Matt was recently brought back on as the brand voice of the University of Southern Queensland, recording 6 new spots for TV, radio and in-stream advertising for their 2016 campaign. He also recently recorded corporate videos for Emirates, Chevrolet, Allianz and Pringles.

BRUCE JACOBSON – Many folks around the U.S. have likely heard the current national TV commercial (available to view on Bruce’s page) for Sqwincher, a heat stress safety product for the industrial market. New Angry Orchard and Del Taco spots are airing as well as recently completed narrations for the Atlanta Hawks and University of Nevada Wolf Pack Football.

JAMES CLAMP – Our Mr. Clamp has been a bust Englishman for voice-over clients world wide including TV spots for Volvo, corporate narrations KLM, Club Med, Champion Oil, Netherlands Government, IKEA, Philips, Conoco Philips and Porsche. James also completed TV promo work for WETA UK (US) and KCTS 9 (US) and an audiobook “Home” by Matt Dunn for Brilliance Audio.

TOM TEST – MVO’s Tom Test voiced a :60 national TV spot for Snapper Lawn Mowers, as well as corporate narrations for Shell Oil, Motorola and the World Bank.

DAVE DEANDREA – Dave continues his reign as “the poor man’s Morgan Freeman” with his new National TV and internet spots for Game of War, he’s also been lending his normal, corporate-casual delivery to narrations for Delta and Microsoft.

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The world of professional voice over certainly has its perks, but this was one I wasn’t expecting.

About 2 years ago while driving home (or perhaps racing home) from my girlfriend’s, I was pulled over by the police for speeding. Was I speeding? I was 30km over the limit. Yes, I guess you could say I was speeding.

The police officer asked for my insurance, drivers license and ownership. As he looked over my information, he happened to look down inside the car and catch my business card in my wallet. My card is stylish and different, with my signature promotional shot on it.

“What do you do?” he asked.

I contemplated telling him I was a nuclear physicist… but I decided not to.

“I’m a voice artist” I said.

Unless you’re in the entertainment industry in some sort of capacity, or are a voice artist yourself, there is inevitably an explanation that has to come with it.

He looked at me, perplexed. I took a breath and began telling him exactly what a voice artist is and what exactly it was that I did for a living.

The police officer’s demeanor changed.

He became much more relaxed and casual. One could say he even became more… human.

At one point he leaned on my car, smiling and laughing as if we had been friends for years. He was a big fan of the travel and adventure channel Travel and Escape (T&E) for which I am the promo and imaging voice for. His wife was also a fan of Four Weddings Canada for which I did the narration for.

While laughing and becoming engaged in my stories he then said to me…

“You know, I’ve always wanted to get into that myself.”

He must have stood there for another 10 minutes telling me his aspirations for getting into the business and asking questions regarding the industry. I kept thinking to myself…

‘If he gives me a ticket now, he’s up for the biggest a** of the year award.’

Don’t get me wrong, he had absolutely every right to still give me that ticket, and perhaps he should have. But I think it was that potential awkward transition that prevented him from doing so more than the “celebrity” of what I do.

“Amazing. Thanks so much for all that information Mr. McRae. Oh.. and here’s the $350 ticket and 3 demerit points. Have a nice morning!”

Needless to say he didn’t give me the ticket, but rather a friendly warning and reminder to slow down. I did however, give him my business card for which he was grateful for. One could even say… excited.

I’m still waiting for his call.

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The Voice-Over Guys’ collective experience working with explainer videos paid off as their “Meet MVO: The Voice-Over Guys” explainer video won top video honors at the 15th annual BETA Awards, presented by InfoTech Western New York ( #BETAS2015 ). MVO: The Voice-Over Guys won in the category of “Best Use of On-Line Video” from among four category finalists including professional marketing and video production companies.

Each voice actor within MVO: The Voice-Over Guys is a featured narrator in the newly awarded production including the video’s writer, executive producer and owner of MVO: The Voice-Over Guys, Peter K. O’Connell. MVO’s Dan Hurst provided script assistance for the video and finished audio for the project was produced by MVO’s Dan Friedman. Evil Cyborg LLC, based in Austin, Texas, conceived and completed the production design for the explainer video.

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE:

ABOUT MVO: THE VOICE-OVER GUYS

MVO: The Voice-Over Guys is a marketing cooperative featuring twenty of the most professionally accomplished and popular male voice-over talents ever assembled in one place. Media producers can audition and work with any Voice-Over Guy directly with no extra fees just by visiting each talent’s web page on the MVO site. Voice-over specialties for the twenty members include commercials, narrations, animation, promo, e- learning, video games, movie trailers and audiobooks, among others.

The exclusively selected, highly respected male voice talents featured on the MVO: The Voice-Over Guys web site include (alphabetically): Scott Burns, James Clamp, Matt Cowlrick, Chuck Davis, Dave DeAndrea, Dan Friedman, Johnny George, Rowell Gormon, Dan Hurst, Dave McRae, Peter K. O’Connell, Jordan Reynolds, Christian Rosselli, Bob Souer, Tom Test, Pete Turbiville, Brad Venable, George Washington III and MVO: The Voice-Over Guys Media Releases ON LINE:
http://malevoiceovertalents.com/category/media-release/

Home of Male Voiceover Talent | MVO: The Voice-Over Guys

MVO: The Voice-Over Guys Company Blog:
http://www.malevoiceovertalents.com/blog

What Does “MVO:” Mean?
The name “MVO:” comes from the abbreviation on voice-over scripts for Male Voice-Over. On a voice-over script, the abbreviation appears as “MVO:”.

Evil Cyborg, LLC Web:

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Evil Cyborg Contact:
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About Evil Cyborg:
Headquartered in Austin, TX, Evil Cyborg, LLC specializes in the crudely effective Scribbletron format, revolutionizing education one stick figure at a time.

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The explainer video, which highlights the purpose and benefits of working with the members of MVO: The Voice-Over Guys, features the voices of all 20 members of the voice-over cooperative and was chosen among a field of 4 finalists.

Here’s the award winning video, featuring voice-over performances by:
George Washington III – Voice Talent
Brad Venable – Voice Talent
Pete Turbiville – Voice Talent
Tom Test – Voice Talent
Bob Souer – Voice Talent
Christian Rosselli – Voice Talent
Jordan Reynolds – Voice Talent
Peter K. O’Connell – Voice Talent, Executive Producer
Dave McRae – Voice Talent
Dan Hurst – Voice Talent
Rowell Gormon – Voice Talent
Johnny George – Voice Talent
Dan Friedman – Voice Talent, Audio Producer
Dave DeAndrea – Voice Talent
Chuck Davis – Voice Talent
Matt Cowlrick – Voice Talent
James Clamp – Voice Talent
Scott Burns – Voice Talent

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The BETA Awards recognize and celebrate the Buffalo Niagara region’s organizations and individuals that set the standard for technological innovation and implementation, workplace culture, and industry activism.

One of their categories is “Best Use of Online Video”. And the #Betas2015 nominees are:

Yup!

MVO: The Voice-Over Guys are nominated for the self-produced “Meet MVO: The Voice-Over Guys” video (which in case you missed here it is) :

So, if we’re being accurate, the #Betas2015 nominees for “Best Use of Online Video” are (in reverse alphabetical order this time, otherwise Scott Burns ALWAYS gets to go first :

Matt Wiewel – Voice Talent
George Washington III – Voice Talent
Brad Venable – Voice Talent
Pete Turbiville – Voice Talent
Tom Test – Voice Talent
Bob Souer – Voice Talent
Christian Rosselli – Voice Talent
Jordan Reynolds – Voice Talent
Peter K. O’Connell – Voice Talent, Executive Producer
Dave McRae – Voice Talent
Bruce Jacobson – Voice Talent
Dan Hurst – Voice Talent
Rowell Gormon – Voice Talent
Johnny George – Voice Talent
Dan Friedman – Voice Talent, Audio Producer
Dave DeAndrea – Voice Talent
Chuck Davis – Voice Talent
Matt Cowlrick – Voice Talent
James Clamp – Voice Talent
Scott Burns – Voice Talent

The winners will be announced on April 23, 2015. Congratulations to ALL the category nominees.

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