Canadian Grammy Winners 2025

There was a lot of Canadian content at the 67th GRAMMY Awards that took place at the Crypto.com Arena (LA) on Sunday, February 2 and was broadcast live on CBS.

Here is the televised ceremony:

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

Hamilton Bluesman Steve Strongman attended as a nominee. Below is his commentary

Links: Steve Strongman, More Steve Strongman Stories, Video above courtesy of Steve Strongman Music

Below is a complete list of Canadian winners. Click here for the complete list

• Best Traditional Blues Album: The Taj Mahal Sextet  - Live at The Church in Tulsa (released through Waterdown Canada’s Stony Plain Records)
• Lowell: Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, co-writer on some tracks)
  
  
  
  Links: Lowell, More Lowell Stories, Beyonce, More Beyonce Stories, Video above courtesy of rauhlren
  
  
• Daniel Caesar: Best Reggae Album: (Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Waiting In Vain)
  
  
  
  Links: Daniel Caesar, More Daniel Caesar Stories, More Bob Marley Covers/Stories, Video above courtesy of Stereohearts R&B
  
  
• Shawn Everett: Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, production and mixing) / Best Country Song: (Kacey Musgraves - The Architect, production and mixing)
  
  
• Dave Hamelin:  Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, producer)
  
  
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein with London Symphony Orchestra and Bradley Cooper)
  
  
• Jessie Reyez: Best Reggae Album: Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Is This Love)
  
  
  
  Links: Jessie Reyez, More Jesse Reyez Stories, Video above courtesy of Jessie Reyez
  
  
• Scott Zhang aka Monsune: Best R&B Song (SZA - Saturn, songwriter)
  
  
  
  Links: Monsune, More Monsune Stories, SZA, More SZA Stories, Video above courtesy of SZA

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Canadian Nominees for the 2025 Grammys (including local artists)

The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards were recently announced and quite a number of Canadian are in the running for the prestigious prize. 

In local news, Waterdown's Stony Plain Records have two albums up for the Best Traditional Blues Album category: Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down (co-produced, co-written and guest starring Hamilton/Kitchener Bluesman Steve Strongman +  backing vocals by Chris Ayries (Hamilton) on 'Sideline') and Sue Foley: One Guitar Woman. Nothing In Rambling, a song from Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down is also nominated for Best Americana Roots Performance.

The 67th GRAMMY Awards, will take be at the Crypto.com Arena (LA) on Sunday, February 2 and broadcast live on the CBS.

Here is the official Grammy Nominee Announcement.

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

Below is a complete list of Canadian nominees.

Steve Strongman (Hamilton/Kitchener)

• Best Traditional Blues Album (Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down, co-producer, co-writer, guest on tracks) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
  
  
  
  Links: Fabulous Thunderbirds, More Fabulous Thunderbirds Stories, Video above courtesy of The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Topic
  
  
• Best Americana Roots Performance (The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Nothing In Rambling ft Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood, Co-producer) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Chris Ayries  (Hamilton)

• Best Traditional Blues Album (Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down, backing vocals on 'Sideline') (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Sue Foley

• Best Traditional Blues Album (One Guitar Woman) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Arcade Fire

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Saltburn soundtrack, ft the song No Cars Go)

Lowell Boland

• Best Pop Solo Performance (Beyoncé - Bodyguard / Texas Hold 'Em, co-writer)
• Best Country Song / Record of the Year / Song of the Year (Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em, co-writer)
• Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, co-writer on some tracks)

Marika Bournaki

• Best Classical Solo Vocal Album (Fotina Naumenko - Bespoke Songs, pianist)

Daniel Caesar

• Best Reggae Album: (Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Waiting In Vain)

Deborah Cox

• Best Musical Theatre Album (The Wiz - 2024 Broadway Cast Recording)

Sara Diamond

• Best R&B Song (Coco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh), songwriter)

Grant Dickinson aka Thelabcook

• Best Rap Song ($ ft Rich the Kid & Playboi Carti - Carnival, songwriter)

Serban Ghenea

• Album of the Year (Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department, audio engineer & mixing)
• Best Engineered Album (Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet, audio engineer & mixing)

Dave Hamelin (The Stills)

• Best Country Solo Performance (Beyoncé - 16 Carriages, production and mixing recording engineer)

Shawn Everett

• Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, production and mixing)
• Best Country Album / Best Country Solo Performance / Best Country Song / Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well, mixing)

Kaytranada 

• Best Remixed Recording (Doechii - Alter Ego)
• Best Dance/Electronic Music Album (Timeless)
• Best Dance/Electronic Recording (Witchy ft Childish Gambino)

Avril Lavigne

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Deadpool & Wolverine soundtrack, ft the song I'm With You)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein with London Symphony Orchestra and Bradley Cooper)
• Best Opera Recording (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Catan: Florencia en el Amazonas / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Puts: the Hours)

Jessie Reyez

• Best Reggae Album: Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Is This Love)

Spiritbox

• Best Metal Performance (Cellar Door)

Shania Twain

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Twisters: The Album, ft the song Boots Don't with Breland)

The Weeknd

• Best Melodic Rap Performance (We Still Don't Trust You with Future and Metro Boomin)

Charlotte Day Wilson

• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Cyan Blue)

Scott Zhang aka Monsune

• Best R&B Song (SZA - Saturn, songwriter)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

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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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GOOD LUCK! Local Artists Receive Indie Award Nominations!

Once again, a number of talented local artists have received Indie Award nominations.

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, featuring Hamilton's Tom Wilson, Guelph's Stephen Fearing and Toronto's Colin Linden) are up for the Folk/Roots category.  Other nominees from the Hammer include Whitehorse (Songwriter), Diana Panton (Jazz) and Caribou (Artist, Electronic Artist).

Links: Rodeo Kings, More BARK stories, Video above courtesy of StellaBlu477

You+Me, the alt-folk duo featuring St. Catharines boy Dallas Smith (aka City and Colour) with international superstar P!nk, is in the running for both the Songwriter and Alternative categories. Also from St. Catharines, Tim Hicks was nominated for Best Country.

Links: You+Me, More You+Me Stories, Video above courtesy of You+Me



Links: Tim Hicks, More Tim Hicks Stories, Video above courtesy of csChicago

Hopefully they will be taking home some hardware on Saturday May 9th, 2015 when the awards are handed out at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto.  GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Here are some nomination highlights:

FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST OR GROUP

• Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
• Del Barber
• Oh Susanna
• The Bar Brothers
• The Bros. Landreth

SONGWRITER

• Whitehorse
• You+Me
• July Talk
• The New Pornographers
• The Weeknd

JAZZ ARTIST OR GROUP

• Diana Panton
• BadBadNotGood
• Elizabeth Shepherd
• Myriad3
• The Souljazz Orchestra

COUNTRY ARTIST OR GROUP

• Tim Hicks
• Dallas Smith
• Jess Moskaluke
• Kira Isabella
• The Road Hammers

ALTERNATIVE ARTIST OR GROUP

• You+Me
• Alvvays
• Bahamas
• Dan Mangan + Blacksmith
• Timber Timbre

ARTIST 

• Caribou 
• Mac DeMarco
• Owen Pallett
• Tanya Tagaq
• The Weeknd

ELECTRONIC ARTIST

• Caribou 
• Art Department 
• Operators 
• Plastikman 
• Zeds Dead

ALBUM

• Alvvays: Alvvays
• Death From Above 1979: The Physical World 
• Mac DeMarco: Salad Day’s
• Owen Pallett: In Conflict 
• The New Pornographers: Brill Bruisers

SINGLE

• [SEBELL]: Till the Sun Burns Out
• Chromeo: Jealous (I Ain’t With It)
• Death From Above 1979: Trainwreck 1979 
• MAGIC!: Rude
• USS: Yin Yang

GROUP OR DUO

• Alvvays
• Death From Above 1979
• The Glorious Sons
• The New Pornographers
• Tokyo Police Club

FEMALE ARTIST

• Jenn Grant
• Lisa LeBlanc
• Lowell
• Steph Cameron
• Tanya Tagaq

MALE ARTIST 

• Chad VanGaalen (Flemish Eye)
• Jay Malinowski and the Deadcoast
• Kevin Drew
• Owen Pallett
• Rich Aucoin

EMERGING ARTIST (ENGLISH

• Alvvays
• BESTiE
• Close Talker
• Cousins
• Gay Nineties
• JPNSGRLS
• Royal Tusk
• The Barr Brothers
• The Dying Arts
• The Mohrs

Blast from the Past: 2014 Winners

Links: Indie Awards, More Indie Awards Stories

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