News Roundup (Polaris Short List, Passings, Travelling Beer Bellies)

Polaris Prize 2017 Short List 

The top spot (to be announced Sept 18, 2017) will win $50,000 and the rest of the Short List will receive $3,000.

• BadBadNotGood: IV
• Leonard Cohen: You Want it Darker
• Gord Downie: Secret Path
• Feist: Pleasure
• Lisa LeBlanc: Why You Wanna Leave: Runaway Queen?
  
  
  
  Links: Lisa LeBlanc, More Lisa LeBlanc Stories, Video above courtesy of Lisa LeBlanc
  
  
• Lido Pimienta: La Papessa
• Tanya Tagaq: Retribution
• A Tribe Called Red: We Are the Halluci Nation (Six Nations)
• Leif Vollebekk: Twin Solitude 
• Weaves: Weaves

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News

Local

• No Depression Story on Kathleen Edwards
• CHCH Video: Vanessa Marie Carter
• Commissionaires (Jacob Moon + Joel Parisien) Debut Album 
• Local Canadian Country Music Association Award Nominations

Canada

• Talkin' Blues Podcast w David Rotundo

Passings

• Erik Cartwright (ex-Foghat guitarist)
  
  
  
  Links: Foghat, Video above courtesy of Rare Tracks
  
  
• Joe Fields (Jazz label owner)
• David Z (Adrenaline Mob/Trans-Siberian Orchestra bassist)

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Featured Video

Links: Travelling Beer Bellies, More TBB Stories, Video above courtesy of Brantford Ribfest

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