2025 Polaris Long List Including Local Artists

On June 10, the Polaris Prize Long List was unveiled, including a few local artists. The Short List will be revealed on July 10. The Grand Prize winner (who gets $30,000) will be awarded on September 16 at a wonderful gala at Massey Hall in Toronto.

Below is a video of the Long List announcement.

Links: Polaris Music Prize, More Polaris Stories, Video above courtesy of Polaris Music Prize

Below is the Long List. Local artists are bolded.

• Caribou (Dundas) - Honey
  
  
  
  Links: Caribou, More Caribou Stories, Video above courtesy of Caribou
  
  
• Nemahsis (Milton) - Verbathim
  
  
  
  Links: Nemahsis, More Nemahsis Stories, Video above courtesy of Nemahsis
  
  
• Richard Laviolette (Guelph) - All Wild Things Are Shy
  
  
  
  Links: Rich Laviolette, Video above courtesy of  Richard Laviolette and the Oil Spills - Topic
  
  
• Art d'Ecco-  Serene Demon
• Backxwash - Only Dust Remains
• Quinton Barnes - CODE NOIR
• Bibi Club - Feu de garde
• Basia Bulat - Basia's Palace
• Lou-Adriane Cassidy - Journal d'un Loup Garou
• Choses Sauvages - Choses Sauvages III
• Cold Specks - Light For The Midnight
• Antoine Corriveau - Oiseau de Nuit
• Marie Davidson - City Of Clowns
• Destroyer - Dan's Boogie
• Myriam Gendron - Mayday
• Gloin - All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
• Saya Gray - SAYA Hildegard - Jour 1596
• Yves Jarvis - All Cylinders
• Kaia Kater - Strange Medicine
• Bells Larsen - Blurring Time
• Wyatt C. Louis - Chandler
• Kelly McMichael - After The Sting Of It
• Men I Trust - Equus Asinus
• Mustafa - Dunya
• N NAO - Nouveau langage
• Eliza Niemi - Progress Bakery
• The OBGMs - SORRY, IT'S OVER
• Dorothea Paas - Think Of Mist
• Klô Pelgag - Abracadabra
• Population II - Maintenant Jamais
• Ribbon Skirt - Bite Down
• Ariane Roy - Dogue
• Mike Shabb - Sewaside III
• Sister Ray - Believer
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids - RED FUTURE
• The Weather Station - Humanhood
• Rick White and The Sadies - Rick White and The Sadies
• Donovan Woods - Things Were Never Good If They're Not Good Now
• Yoo Doo Right - From the Heights of Our Pastureland

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CONGRATS! Hamilton's Jessy Lanza on Polaris Short List!

Picture courtesy of Polaris Music Prize

The Polaris Music Prize has whittled down their Long List of Canadian Albums for 2016 to 10 for their Short List.  Hamilton electronic musician Jessy Lanza is the only local performer to make it through the process.

Links: Jessy Lanza, More Jessy Lanza Stories, Video above courtesy of CBC Music

Each act on the Short list will receive $3,000 and will be in the running for the $50,000 grand prize at the Polaris Gala (September 19, 2016 at The Carlu in Toronto).

CONGRATS AND GOOD LUCK.!

Here is the complete Short List.

• Jessy Lanza: Oh No
• Black Mountain: IV
• Basia Bulat: Good Advice
  
  
  
  Links: Basia Bulat, More Basia Bulat Stories, Video above courtesy of maidoiZelle.com
  
  
• Grimes: Art Angels
• Carly Rae Jepsen: E•MO•TION
• Kaytranada: 99.90%
• PUP: The Dream Is Over
• Andy Shauf: The Party
  
  
  
  Links: Andy Shauf, More Andy Shauf Stories , Video above courtesy of antirecords
  
  
• U.S. Girls: Half Free
• White Lung: Paradise

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winner

Links: Polaris Music Prize, More Polaris Stories

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GOOD LUCK! Local Artists on Polaris Long List

The renowned Polaris Music Prize has unveiled their Long List of Canadian Albums for 2016 and quite a few local musicians are on it! 

Hamilton electronic music-makers Junior Boys and Jessy Lanza grace the list. 

Links: Junior Boys, More Junior Boys Stories, Video above courtesy of City Slang



Links: Jessy Lanza, More Jessy Lanza Stories, Video above courtesy of Rodolfo Yuzo

So do St. Catharines Alt-Folk sensation City and Colour and Daniel Romano from Welland.



Links: City and Colour, More City and Colour Stories, Video above courtesy of Monical4



Links: Daniel Romano, More Daniel Romano Stories, Video above courtesy of Blue Jean Pieta

The announcement of the Short List (which will whittle the long one to just the top ten) will be on July 14, 2016.  The prize winner will be awarded at the Polaris Gala (September 19, 2016 at The Carlu in Toronto).

The top candidate will earn $50,000 and the rest of the Short List will receive $3,000.

GOOD LUCK.

Here is the complete Long List.

• Junior Boys: Big Black Coat
• Jessy Lanza: Oh No
• City and Colour: If I Should Go Before You
• Daniel Romano: Mosey
• Art Bergmann: The Apostate
• Justin Bieber: Purpose
• Black Mountain: IV
• Jean-Michel Blais: II
• Basia Bulat: Good Advice
• Daniel Caesar: Pilgrim’s Paradise
• Tanika Charles: Soul Run
• Coeur de pirate: Roses
• Dead Obies: Gesamtkunstwerk
• Destroyer: Poison Season
• Dilly Dally: Sore
• Drake: VIEWS
• Essaie pas: Demain est une autre nuit
• Fred Fortin: Ultramarr
• FOXTROTT: A Taller Us
• Grimes: Art Angels
• Half Moon Run: Sun Leads Me On
• Veda Hille: Love Waves
• Jazz Cartier: Hotel Paranoia
• Carly Rae Jepsen: E•MO•TION
• Kaytranada: 99.90%
• Majid Jordan: Majid Jordan
• Michelle McAdorey: Into Her Future
• Nap Eyes: Thought Rock Fish Scale
• Safia Nolin: Limoilou
• Operators: Blue Wave
• Peaches: Rub
• PUP: The Dream Is Over
• Andy Shauf: The Party
• The Strumbellas: HOPE
• Suuns: Hold/Still
• U.S. Girls: Half Free
• Un Blonde: Good Will Come To You
• The Weeknd: Beauty Behind the Madness
• White Lung: Paradise
• Donovan Woods: Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winner

Links: Polaris Music Prize, More Polaris Stories

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Local Musicians on Polaris Music Prize Long List

The Polaris Music Prize 2014 Long List has been announced and a few local musicians are in the running for the prestigious award.

Both Guelph singer/songwriter Bry Webb and soulful Hamilton gal Jessy Lanza are nominated.  Also of note is the music project, The Kennedy Suite (featuring the Cowboy Junkies) which is in the running as well.  This CD features work by area artists such as Lee Harvey Osmond, Sarah Harmer, Harlan Pepper and Darcy Hepner. 



Links: Bry Webb, More Bry Webb Stories, Video above courtesy of the National Post Sessions



Links: Jessy Lanza, More Jessy Lanza Stories, Video above courtesy of HyperDub Records





Links: Cowboy Junkies, More Cowboy Junkies Stories, Video above courtesy of the National
 

The Short List will be announced July 15 and the prize itself will be awarded on September 22, 2014.

Below is the complete long list.

Bry Webb - Free Will
Cowboy Junkies / Various - The Kennedy Suite
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Basia Bulat - Tall Tall Shadow
Mounties (w Hawksley Workman) - Thrash Rock Legacy
The Strumbellas - We Still Move on Dance Floors
Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
AroarA - In the Pines
Austra - Olympia
Philippe B - Ornithologie, la nuit
Chromeo - White Women
Cousins - The Halls of Wickwire
The Darcys - Warring
Dead Obies - Montréal $ud
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
DIANA - Perpetual Surrender
Drake - Nothing Was the Same
Freedom Writers - NOW
Fresh Snow - I
Frog Eyes - Carey's Cold Spring
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Jimmy Hunt - Maladie d'amour
Kalle Mattson - Someday, the Moon Will Be Gold
Moonface - Julia with Blue Jeans On
Odonis Odonis - Hard Boiled Soft Boiled
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Pink Mountaintops - Get Back
PUP - PUP
The Sadies - Internal Sounds
Shad - Flying Colours
Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram
Solids - Blame Confusion
Rae Spoon - My Prairie Home
Tanya Tagaq - Animism
Thus Owls - Turning Rocks
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU

Blast from the Past: Whitehorse on Polaris Short List 2013

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