Brantford's Ghost Town Orchestra Wins Best Rock CD at Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards

Ghost Town Orchestra, the amazing rock project of Brantford singer/songwriter Logan Staats, recently won for Best Rock CD at the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards.  The hardware was handed out September 12, 2014 during a wonderful televised ceremony. Congratulations!



Links: Ghost Town Orchestra, More Logan Staats Stories, Video above courtesy of Ghost Town Orchestra

Here are some highlights from the ceremony: 

Rock CD:  Ghost Town Orchestra: Dead Wait

Blues CD: Young Medicine: Be Your Own Person



Video above Courtesy of ThatConradGuy

Folk/Acoustic CD: Jasmine Netsena: Take You With Me



Video above courtesy of CFU Radio

Country CD: Shy-Anne: Bones

Fiddle CD:  Jason Lepine: Driving Force

New Artist: Leonard Sumner

Single: Shy-Anne: Be Your Girl

Songwriter:  Indian City

Aboriginal Entertainer: Shy-Anne

Click here for a full list of winners

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Joel Johnson and Ghost Town Orchestra Up for Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards

Brantford band, Ghost Town Orchestra (which features singer/songwriter Logan Staats rocking it up) and Ohsweken bluesman Joel Johnson have been nominated for 2014 Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards. GTO is up for Best New Artists and best Rock CD while Joel is in the running for Best Blues CD.  Hopefully, they'll be taking home the harware on September 12, 2014 when the awards are handed out.

You can help them win by voting at this link.  Voting closes July 19, 2014.



Links: Joel Johnson, More Joel Johnson Stories, Video above courtesy of Blues Johnson



Links: Ghost Town Orchestra, More Logan Staats Stories,  Video above courtesy of Ghost Town Orchestra

Below are some highlights


Blues CD

• Joel Johnson: Blues Joose Volume II  
• Cary Morin: Streamline
• Gary Sappier: Who Ya Foolin
• Young Medicine: Be Your Own Person

Folk/Acoustic CD

• Diyet: When You Were King
• Janet Panic: Most Of What Follows Is True…
• Jasmine Netsena: Take You With Me
• Leonard Sumner: Rez Poetry
• Samantha Crain: Kid Face

Country CD

• Genevieve Fisher: Bad Enough
• Kelly Derrickson: Warriors Of Love
• Leanne Goose: This Time
• Nelson Little: The Little Things
• Shy-Anne: Bones

Fiddle CD

• Boyd Benjamin: The Flying Gwitch In Fiddler
• Jason Lepine: Driving Force
• Midnight Mist: Still Going

New Artist

• Ghost Town Orchestra
• Crystal J
• Iceis Rain
• Jasmine Netsena
• Leonard Sumner

Rock CD

• Ghost Town Orchestra: Dead Wait
• Iceis Rain: The Queen
• Kickin Krotch: Kickin Krotch
• Kristi Lane Sinclair: The Sea Alone
• When Darkness Falls: The Power

Single

• Desiree Dorion: Turn To Me
• Elisapie Isaac: Life Is What You Make It
• Inez Jasper: Dancin On The Run
• Samantha Crain: Somewhere All The Time
• Shy-Anne: Be Your Girl
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of Shy-Anne
  

Songwriter

• Desiree Dorion
• Donny Parenteau
• Genevieve Fisher
• Indian City
• Janet Panic

Aboriginal Entertainer

• Cary Morin
• Dallas Arcand
• Gary Sappier
• KASP
• Shy-Anne

Click here for full listt of nominees

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