GOOD LUCK! Hamilton Born David Braid Nominated for Canadian Screen Awards

The 2017 Canadian Screen Awards showcase the best in television, digital media and film the country has to offer. Hamilton-born jazz pianist and composer David Braid is up for two awards (Achievement in Music – Best Original Song and Achievement in Music – Original Score) for his amazing music on Born to be Blue, a film about jazz legend Chet Baker.

Hopefully, he'll be bringing home some hardware at the televised ceremony March 12, 2017 on CBC.



Links: David Braid, More David Braid Stories, Video above courtesy of Soundtrackland



Video above courtesy of Movieclips Trailers

Here are the others nominated in the categories

Achievement in Music – Best Original Song

• David Braid: Could Have Been (Born to be Blue)
• Matthew Schellenberg: Draw Blood (Lovesick)
• Milk & Bone: Natalie (King Dave)
• Daniel Stimac: Almost Had It All (A Date with Miss Fortune)
• Nikan Boivin: Sokecimoyekw (Before the Streets)

Achievement in Music – Original Score

• David Braid, Todor Kobakov, Steve London, (Born to be Blue)
• Taymaz Saba: Window Horses
• Jesse Zubot: Two Lovers and a Bear
• Alain Mayrand: Numb
• Michael White: (HEVN - Revenge)

Also of note to our readers is the documentary I Am the Blues, a Canadian co-production about veteran American Blues artists. The film was nominated in the Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Documentary categories.



Video above courtesy of IDFA

Click here for the complete list of nominees

Blast from the Past: David Braid Wins 2012 Juno

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