2023 Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards Winners

The 2023 Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards were handed on June 6 at the The National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

Below is a complete list of winners:

• Live Musical Performance: “Long Black Train” – Blue Moon Marquee (signed with Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
  
  
  
  Links: Blue Moon Marquee, More BMM Stories, Video above courtesy of Blue Moon Marquee
  
  
• Radio Song/Single: “Deadman” – Logan Staats (Brantford)
  
  
  
  Links: Logan Staats, More Logan Staats Stories, Video above courtesy of L Staats
  
  
• Roots Album: Scream, Holler & Howl – Blue Moon Marquee (signed with Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
• Artistic Video: “We Were Here” – Aysanabee
  
  
  
  Links: Aysanabee, More Aysanabee Stories, Video above courtesy of Aysanabee
  
  
• Country Album: That’s the Way It Goes – Jim Jacobs
• International Indigenous Artist/Group: Solju
• Inuit Artist/Group: Beatrice Deer
• Legacy Award: Vince Fontaine
• Pop/Alternative/Rock Album: Watin – Aysanabee
• Metis Artist/Group: Andrea Menard
• Music in the Arts: A Broken Heart (Remembers the Breaking) – Kaeley Jade
• Pow Wow/Hand Drum/Fiddle/Instrumental Album: Mikwanak Kamôsakinat – Joel Wood
• Rap/Hip-Hop/Electronica Album: I’M GOOD, HBU? – Snotty Nose Rez Kids
• Recording Artist: Snotty Nose Rez Kids
• Rising Star: Aysanabee
• Social Voice: Digging Roots

Links: SSIMA, More SSIMA Stories

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