Ed Smeall

Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson. He was soon hired as a consultant by Yuk Yuk’s International to set-up a booking agency for their comedians. He hired some key agents including Evan Adelman and together they became a strong team.

At the same time he ran his own management firm where he handled the careers of FM, Nash The Slash & The Northern Pikes. When The Northern Pikes became successful and started working internationally, he left Yuk Yuk’s to concentrate full-time on management.

Five years later and three albums, he parted ways with The Northern Pikes and came back to Yuk Yuk’s.

Ten years later he has decided to fulfill yet another dream. He started HELP - where he represents a few primary artists he feels have the capability to take it to the next level.

As well, through his connections of over 30 years of experience he has the experience & knowledge to HELP make the right decisions for your event.

Ed started his career in the entertainment business when he attended Concordia University in Montreal although he couldn’t decide on accounting or marketing, he wasted no time in making the decision that 4 more years of school was not for him. He became Music Director at the University’s radio station and shortly after went to work for Sheldon Kagan booking DJ’s at Bar Mitzvah’s & Sweet 16 parties. Wanting to do more, they both started to promote concerts and worked with such artists as Dave Brubeck, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Dizzy Gillespie Jackie Mason, Loggins & Messina, Billy Preston, plus Delaney, Bonnie & Friends to name just a few. He soon left to start his own agency that became so successful that the number one agency in Canada at the time bought him out and moved him to their Head Office in Toronto. A few years later he left and formed The Agency which became Canada’s largest contemporary music agency. He was the personal agent for many recording acts including Corey Hart, Spoons, & Men Without Hats.

He left The Agency after 10 years to become an entertainment consultant. His first client was Concerts Productions International where he was hired to market, close circuit boxing matches by satellite, across Canada involving top level fighters such as