GOOD LUCK! Local 2017 Indigineous Music Award Nominations

The Indigenous Music Awards took a year off and now they are back in full force! As always, a number of amazing local artists got nods in a few categories.

Fort Erie's DJ Shub is up for three awards (Best Music Video, Best Radio Single and Best Instrumental Album). Brantford has two hometown boys in the running: Jace Martin (Best Pop Album) and Logan Staats (Best Folk Album, Music Video). Six Nations Blluesman Derek Miller is also nominated for Best Producer for his work on Logan's album, Goodbye Goldia.



Links: Logan Staats, More Logan Staats Stories, Video above courtesy of Logan Staats



Links: DJ Shub, Video above courtesy of DJ Shub



Links: Jace Martin, More Jace Martin Stories, Video above courtesy of keesic1

Hopefully, they'll win a few on May 19, 2017 at the ceremony in Winnipeg!

GOOD LUCK GUYS!

Here's a complete list of niminees.

Folk Album

• Logan Staats: Goodbye Goldia
• Christa Couture: Long Time Leaving
• Nadia and Jason Burnstick: Dream Big Little One
• Nick Sherman: Knives and Wildrice
• Twin Flames: Jaaji and Chelsey June

Producer/Engineer

• Derek Miller (Logan Staats: Goodbye Goldia)
• Larry Mitchell (Indigie Femme: Justify)
• Murray Pulver (JC Campbell: Four Letter Lie)
• Tom Dutiaume: (Kimberley Dawn: Til The Cowboys Come Home)
• Crystal Shawanda: (Missy Knott: My Sister's Heart)

Music Video

• Logan Staats: Ash's
• DJ Shub: Indomitable ft Northern Cree Singers
• District Avenue: Revival
• Jade Turner: Worth
• JC Campbell: Four Letter Lie

Radio Single

• DJ Shub: Old School is for Lovers ft Morningstar River
• Black and Grey: Pretty Little Nightmare
• Brendt Thomas Diabo: Dirty Old Town
• Carsen Gray: Supernatural
• Mob Bounce: All My Relations

Instrumental Album

• DJ Shub: PowWowStep
• Cris Derksen: Orchestral Powwow
• R. Carlos Nakai Quartet: What Lies Beyond
• Sean Beaver: NYD
• Ziibiwan: Time Limits EP

Pop Album

• Jace Martin: Mighty
• Awaken Aries: The Extraordinaries Anthology Vol. 1
• Carsen Gray: Carsen Gray
• Mariame: Bloom
• Native Roots: Most High

Blues Album

• Bluedog: Red-White and Blues
• Cary Morin: Cradle to the Grave
• Grey Gritt: Live at the NACC
• Levi Platero: Levi Platero
• The Gary Sappier Blues Band: The Gary Sappier Blues Band Volume Two!

Country Album

• Cory Cardinal: North of Town Roads
• Jade Turner: North Country
• JC Campbell: Four Letter Lie
• Kimberley Dawn: Til The Cowboys Come Home
• Renée Lamoureux: Dare To Be You

Hand Drum Album

• Big River Cree: Those Old Back Trails
• Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie: Round Dance and Beats
• Frog Lake Handgame Singers: Tribute to Late Charlie Quinney
• Northern Cree: It's A Cree Thing
• Shane Redstar: Loud and Proud

Inuit, Indigenous Language or Francophone Album

• Frazer Sundown: Love is a War Dance
• Nimuk: Nimuk and Friends
• Rhonda Head: Kisakihitan
• Silla + Rise: Debut
• Skicinawatuwahtiq: Skicinawatuwahtiq

Peyote Album

• Edmond Poochay: Peyote Songs
• Judy Curley Pahsaknunk: Walking With The Spirit
• Lance Crowe: Sacred Medicine
• Utin Machiskinic: Comfort and Compassion
• Wanita Bird and Joe PoorThunder: Water Is Life

Pow Wow Album (Contemporary)

• Battle Hill: New Age
• Blackstone: Celebration of Life
• Northern Cree: True North Strong and Cree
• Ottawa River Singers: Sing From the Heart

Pow Wow Album (Traditional)

• New Agency: Old Stylez Vol. 1
• Whitefish Bay Singers: Aaw'pii 2016
• Young Bear: Belongs to the People

Rock Album

• Digawolf: Great Northern Man
• Julian Taylor Band: Desert Star
• Kristi Lane Sinclair: Dark Matter
• The Bloodshots: The Bloodshots EP
• The Deeds: Late O'Clock

New Artist

• Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie
• Carsen Gray
• Lisa Muswagon
• Mariame
• Ziibiwan

Rap/Hip Hop Album

• B. of Dakota South Records: OHHH! B.
• Chase Manhattan: Warrior DNA
• City Natives: Nomadic
• J-Rez: Tipi Creepin'
• Joey Stylez: #GREYMAGIC

Best Radio Station Program – Promoting Indigenous Music

• Indigenous in Music with Larry K
• IndiPOW with Layla Black
• Native Waves Radio/NDNs on the Airwave
• ThinkNDN 100.5fm CFRO
• Unreserved: Radio Indigenous

International Indigenous Release

• Glenn Skuthorpe: See My World
• Lumaltok: Vukub Ja'Vil Ta Lumaltok / Siete Años entre La Neblina
• Tasha T: Fire In Me
• The Imbayakunas: Imbaya Full Flavour
• Warren H Williams and Dani Young: Desert Water

Lifetime Achievement Award: Northern Cree

Blast from the Past: The 2015 Winners

Links: The Indigenous Music Awards, More IMA stories

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