The 32nd SOCAN Awards will be handed out on the week of May 24, 2021 but SOCAN recently announced the winners of a series of new Guardian Awards. These awards are to honour people who helped boost Canadian music over the years. It's all part of the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Content (aka CanCon) rules. A number of amazing local people got the nod.
Here is a complete list of winners - area ones are bolded:
Those with an asterisk (*) are Canadian Independent Record Production Association co-founders
- Kelly Jay (Hamilton), Crowbar
Links: More Kelly Jay Stories, Video above courtesy of No. 1 West - Skip Prokop (Hamilton), Lighthouse
Links: More Lighthouse Stories, Video above courtesy of Canadian Cult Classics - Greg Hambleton* (Hamilton)
Video above courtesy of AxeMusic - Bernie Finkelstein*, True North Records (now located in Waterdown)
- Terry Brown*
- Paul Clinch*
- Frank Davies*, Love Productions
- Don DiNovo, Lighthouse
- Bob Ezrin*, Nimbus 9
- Tommy Graham*
- Walt Grealis, RPM Magazine
- Pierre Juneau, CRTC chairman
- Stan Klees*, RPM Magazine
- Betty Layton, SOCAN / BMI Canada
- Allan MacMillan*, Nimbus 9
- Alexander Mair, Early Morning Productions
- Ben McPeek*, Nimbus 9
- John Mills, SOCAN / CAPAC
- Harold Moon, SOCAN / BMI Canada
- Jack Richardson*, Nimbus 9
- Mel Shaw, music manager
- Art Snider*
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
- Ritchie Yorke, Billboard / The Globe & Mail
Links: SOCAN Awards, More SOCAN Award Stories
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