GOOD LUCK! Local Canadian Folk Music Award Nominees

The Canadian Folk Music Awards recently unveiled the nominees for their 10th annual celebration and three talented, area musicians will be up for awards. Hopefully, a few of them will take home the hardware on November 19, 2017 at the ceremony in Ottawa.

The Hidden Roots Collective (featuring Hamilton's Anni Sumi) is in the The New/Emerging Artist of the Year category. 

Links: Hidden Roots Collective, More Annie Sumi Stories, Video above courtesy of Hidden Roots Collective

Former Guelphite Stephen Fearing leads the pack of nominees with four nods (Solo Artists of the Year, English Songwriter of the Years, Contemporary Singer of the Year and Producer of the Year).



Links: Stephen Fearing, More Stephen Fearing Stories, , Video above courtesy of Lucky Dice

Last, but not least, Waterloo's Danny Michel is in the running for Producer of the Year and The Oliver Schroer Pushing The Boundaries Award)



Links: Danny Michel, More Danny Michael Stories, Video above courtesy of  Danny Michel

GOOD LUCK GUYS!

Click here for the winners.

Here's a complete list of nominees

The New/Emerging Artist

• Hidden Roots Collective (ft Hamilton's Anni Sumi)
• Silent Winters
• Ken Yates
• Braden Gates
• The Bombadils

Solo Artist

• Stephen Fearing
• Zachary Lucky
• BEYRIES
• Leeroy Stagger
• Amelia Curran

English Songwriter(s)

• Stephen Fearing
• Oh Susanna
• Scott Cook
• Ken Yates
• Amelia Curran

Contemporary Singer

• Stephen Fearing
• Oh Susanna
• Abigail Lapell
• Lisa LeBlanc
• Coco Love Alcorn

Producer(s)

• Stephen Fearing and David Travers-Smith (Stephen Fearing: Every Soul’s A Sailor)
• Danny Michel and Rob Carli (Danny Michel: Khlebnikov)
• Jim Bryson (Oh Susanna: A Girl In Teen City)
• Joel Plaskett (Bill and Joel Plaskett: Solidarity
• Amelia Curran and Chris Stringer (Amelia Curran: Watershed)

Pushing The Boundaries

• Danny Michel
• Shreem
• Mélisande
• Turkwaz
• Tanya Tagaq

Young Performer

• Moscow Apartment
• Quin Etheridge-Pedden
• Keltie Monaghan
• The Wolfe
• John Muirhead

French Songwriter(s)

• Patrice Michaud
• Luc De Larochellière
• Les Hay Babies
• Philippe B
• Catherine Durand

Aboriginal Songwriter(s)

• Lisa Muswagon
• Julian Taylor Band
• Twin Flames
• Cindy Paul
• Desiree Dorion

World Group

• MAZ
• Turkwaz
• Beyond The Pale
• Twin Flames
• Kobo Town

World Solo Artist

• Louis Simão
• Farnaz Ohadi & The Mashregh Ensemble
• Kelly Bado
• Briga
• Maneli Jamal

Traditional Album

• Jayme Stone: Folklife
• André Brunet: La grosse maison rouge
• Còig: Rove
• Jenny Whiteley: The Original Jenny Whiteley
• Cassie and Maggie: The Willow Collection

Traditional Singer

• Dave Penny
• Hannah Shira Naiman
• Mélisande Gélinas-Fauteux (Mélisande)
• Maggie MacDonald (Cassie and Maggie)
• Sarah Jane Scouten

Contemporary Album

• The Fretless: Bird’s Nest
• Abigail Lapell: Hide Nor Hair
• Tomato Tomato: I Go Where You Go
• Braden Gates: Much Rather Be Sleeping
• Leif Vollebekk: Twin Solitude

Instrumental Group

• Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy
• The Fretless
• Scott Macmillan and Colin Grant
• Beyond The Pale
• MacIsaac and MacKenzie

Instrumental Solo Artist

• Don Ross
• Roberto López
• Glenn Chatten
• André Brunet
• Maneli Jamal

Vocal Group

• The Big East
• The Bombadils
• Twin Flames
• Coco Méliès
• Cassie and Maggie

Ensemble 

• Mama’s Broke
• Silent Winters
• 100 mile house
• The Jerry Cans
• Cassie and Maggie

Children’s Album

• Jessie Farrell: Chirp Chirp Happy
• Fred Penner: Hear The Music
• Ginalina: Home Is Family
• Stella Swanson and the Rosie Joyfuls: Pants on Backwards
• Madame Diva et Micah le jeune voyageur: Zing-E-Zing!

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winners

Links: CFMA, More CFMA Stories

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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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GOOD LUCK! Guelph's Del Bel Up For SOCAN Songwriting Prize! VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE!

Guelph/Toronto band Del Bel is one of the ten finalists for the 2015 SOCAN Songwriting Prize!  Their amazing tune In My Solitude, will be up for honour among nine other great tracks from around the country.  The cash prize will be $10,000 (doubled from last year).

Links: Del Bel, More Del Bel Stories,  Video above courtesy of Del Bel

Fans can help by voting for their favourites until July 1 2015, by going to www.socansongwritingprize.ca or via Twitter, (use the hashtag #mySSPvote and then artist’s name). Fans can vote once a day.  Winners will be announced July 6.

GOOD LUCK!

Here are the 10 finalists:

• Del Bel: In My Solitude
• Alvvays: Archie, Marry Me
• Cold Specks: Old Knives
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of CBC Music
  
  
• Dear Rouge: I Heard I Had
• Kiesza: Hideaway
• Lisa Leblanc: You Look Like Trouble (But I Guess I Do Too)
  
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of Lisa LeBlanc
  
  
• Lowell: The Bells
• Samantha Savage Smith: It’s A Burn
• Shi Wisdom: Young Gunner
• 2nd Son featuring Allie: Private Island

Click here for the compete story

Blast from the Past: Del Bel's Self-Titled Album

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