This year's Canadian Country Music Award Association Award nominees were recently announced and it once again boasted a number of area musicians in the mix.
St. Catharines country boy, Tim Hicks can't seem to stop being nominated and winning awards and he's continued on here. Tim's up for 3 categories (Male Artist of the Year, Interactive Artist or Group of the Year and Recording Package of the Year)
Links: Tim Hicks, More Tim Hicks Stories, Video above courtesy of TimHicks
Cambridge songstress, Shae Dupuy is running against Tim for Interactive Artist or Group of the Year as well. Also from that city is Rich DaSilva (Drummer of the Year).
Links: Shae Dupuy, More Shae Dupuy Stories, Video above courtesy of Shae Dupuy
The Waterloo area is also teeming with nominees thanks to Shane Guse (Fiddle Player of the Year, Special Instrument Player of the Year) and Jimmy Boudreau (Drummer of the Year). Both are from the group, Western Swing Authority . Barrytone Studios (also from the Waterloo region) received a nod for Recording Studio of the Year.
Links: Western Swing Authority, More WSA Stories, Video above courtesy of TJ Social
We'll be keeping our fingers crossed for them on September 10, 2017 during the awards ceremony at the SaskTel Centre.
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
Male Artist
Interactive Artist or Group
Album
Recording Package
Drummer
Fiddle Player
Fiddle Player
Special Instrument Player
- Shane Guse (Western Swing Authority) (mandolin)
- Denis Dufresne (banjo)
- Tyler Vollrath (mandolin)
Recording Studio
- Barrytone Studios, St. Clements, Ont.
- Bark McKay Productions, Saskatoon, Sask.
- MCC Recording Studio, Calgary
- OCL Studios, Chestermire, Alta.
- Revolution Recording, Toronto
- Dean Brody: Beautiful Freakshow
- High Valley: Dear Life
- James Barker Band: Game On
- Meghan Patrick: Grace and Grit
- Dallas Smith: Side Effects
Female Artist
Group or Duo
Roots Artist or Group
Rising Star
Single
- Dallas Smith: Autograph
- Brett Kissel: Cool With That
- James Barker Band: Lawn Chair Lazy
- Jess Moskaluke: Take Me Home
- Dean Brody: Time
- James Barker Band: Chills
- Brett Kissel: I Didn't Fall in Love With Your Hair
- Chris Buck Band ft Kira Isabella: That's When You Know
- Dean Brody: Time
- Aaron Pritchett: When a Momma's Boy Meets a Daddy's Girl
- James Barker Band: Chills (co-written w Gavin Slate, Travis Wood, Donovan Woods)
- Brett Kissel: Cool With That (co-written w Ted Hewitt, Phil O'Donnell)
- Dan Davidson Found (co-written by Clayton Bellamy)
- Dean Brody: Time
- Jessica Mitchell: Workin' on Whiskey (co-written by Patricia Conroy)
- Chris Byrne (The Road Hammers)
- Lisa Dodd
- Justin Kudding
- James Murdoch
- Travis Switzer
Keyboard Player
Steel Guitar Player
Music Director (Large Market)
- Larry Donohue (CFCW, Edmonton)
- Steph Hansen (CKRY-FM/CISN-FM, Calgary/Edmonton)
- Amanda Kingsland (CKBY-FM, Ottawa)
- Brittany Thompson (CKKL-FM, Ottawa)
- Peter Walker (CJKX-FM, Oshawa)
- Shilo Bellis (CJXL-FM, Moncton)
- Paul Ferguson (CHCQ-FM, Belleville, ON)
- Cal Gratton (CJVR-FM, Melfort, Sask.)
- Roo Phelps (CIGV-FM, Kelowna, B.C.)
- Brendan Seeley (CKGY-FM, Red Deer, Alta.)
- The Feldman Agency
- Invictus Entertainment Group
- Paquin Artists Agency
- Sakamoto Agency
- United Talent Agency
- Boots and Bourbon Saloon, Toronto
- Cook County Saloon, Edmonton
- Cowboys Dance Hall, Calgary
- Knoxville's Tavern, Edmonton
- Ranchman's Cookhouse and Dancehall, Calgary
- Boots and Hearts Music Festival, Oro-Medonte, Ont.
- Big Valley Jamboree, Camrose, Alta.
- Calgary Stampede, Calgary
- Cavendish Beach Music Festival, Cavendish, P.E.I.
- Rockin' River Country MusicFest, Merritt, B.C.
- Brett Kissel, Home Movie
- Canadian Coast to Coast
- Chevy Top 20 Countdown
- Coors Banquet One Horse Town
- The Casey Clarke Show with Roo Phelps
- Chief Music Management
- Gold and Gold Productions Ltd.
- Invictus Entertainment Group
- MDM Recordings Inc.
- RGK Entertainment Group Inc.
- ole
- Royalty Music Publishing Inc.
- Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada
- Universal Music Publishing Canada
- Warner/Chappell Music Canada
- MDM Recordings Inc.
- ole red dot
- Open Road Recordings Inc.
- Sony Music Entertainment (Canada) Inc.
- Warner Music Canada
- Steve Coady, Warner Music Canada
- Warren Copnick, Sony Music Entertainment (Canada) Inc.
- Mike Denney, MDM Recordings Inc.
- Ron Kitchener, Open Road Recordings Inc.
- Louis O'Reilly, Big Star Recordings Inc.
- Chris Baseford, Vince Gill, Jeff Johnson, Chad Kroeger, Carly McKillip, Justin Niebank (Meghan Patrick: Grace and Grit)
- Scott Cooke (Aaron Pritchett: The Score)
- Scott Cooke, Ben Glover, Mitch Merrett (Chad Brownlee: Hearts on Fire)
- Joey Moi (Dallas Smith: Side Effects)
- Phil O'Donnell (Gord Bamford: Tin Roof)
Talent Buyer or Promoter
- Kelly Berehulka, Casinos of Winnipeg
- Paul Biro, Sakamoto Agency
- Jim Cressman, Invictus Entertainment Group
- Adam Oppenheim, Stampede Entertainment Inc.
- Emmanuel Patterson, Live Nation Entertainment
- Stephano Barberis (Chad Brownlee: I Hate You For It + Somethin' we Shouldn't Do / Dallas Smith: One Little Kiss / Bucko and Toad: Summer Girl / Dean Brody: Time)
- Emma Higgins (Meghan Patrick: Still Loving You)
- Ben Knechtel (James Barker Band: Chills / Brett Kissell: Cool With That / Jess Moskaluke: Drive Me Away + Elevator / High Valley: Every Week's Got a Friday / David James: Starts With a Girl)
- Travis Nesbitt (Dan Davidson: Found)
- Joel Stewart (Brett Kissel: I Didn't Fall in Love With Your Hair)
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