Winners of Maple Blues Awards, Final Day, Including Hamilton's Smoke Wagon Blues Band

This year, the Maple Blues Awards are online and divided between four Mondays in February.

The last day - day four (February 22) was streamed from Vancouver.

Below is a video of the final ceremony:

Video above courtesy of the Toronto Blues Society

• New Artist: Smoke Wagon Blues Band (Hamilton)
  
  
  
  Links: More Smoke Wagon Blues Band Stories, More Fats Domino Covers/Stories, Video above courtesy of Corey Lueck
  
  
• Male Vocalist: Matt Andersen
  
  
  
  Links: More Matt Andersen Stories, Video above courtesy of Folk Roots and Blues
  
  
• Horn Player: Mark Leclerc (Fuel Junkie) / Mat “Moose” Mousseau (Ben Racine Band) TIE!
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of Fuel Junkie - Topic
  
  
  
  Links: More Ben Racine Stories, Video above courtesy of Blues Rock This Time
  
  
• John Valenteyn Blues Booster of the Year: Cindy McLeod
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of Cindy Mcleod Music

Blast from the Past: Last Years' Winners

Links: Maple Blues Awards, More Maple Blues Awards Stories, Day 1 of 2021, Day 2 of 2021, Day 3 of 2021

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CONGRATS! Canadians Win in 3 International Blues Challenge Categories!

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Musical Canucks made an amazing showing at the 33rd International Blues Challenge. Montreal boasted two champs: Dawn Tyler Watson (Band- 1st place) and her guitarist Ben Racine (Guitar- Band). Ottawa's JW Jones won for Best Self-Produced CD. Toronto Bluesman Sugar Brown was also a finalist in the Solo/Duo category.

CONGRATS EVERYONE!



Video above courtesy of GoEntertainment



Links: Dawn Tyler Watson, More Dawn Tyler Watson Stories, Video above courtesy of laura carbone



Links: JW Jones, More JW Jones Stories, Video above courtesy of Jw Jones

Here's a complete list of winners. Click here for all the finalists.

Bands

• 1st: Dawn Tyler Watson
• 2nd: The Souliz Band ft Sugar and Spice
• 3rd: Rae Gordon and the Backseat Drivers 

Solo/Duo

• 1st: Al Hill
• 2nd: Brody Buster’s One Man Band
• Finalist: Sugar Brown

Best Instrumentalists

• Ben Racine (Guitar - Band)
• Al Hill  (Guitar - Solo)
• Brody Buster (Harmonica)

Best Self-Produced CD

• JW Jones - High Temperature

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winners

Links: International Blues Challenge, More IBC Stories

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