GOOD LUCK! Local 2022 Juno Nominees + Complete List

Nominees for the 2022 Junos were announced recently. The televised ceremony will take place on May 15.

Links: Juno Awards, More Juno Stories, Video above courtesy of CBC Music

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OUR LOCAL NOMINEES!

Below is a complete list of nominees. Local nominees are bolded.

Album Artwork

• Lyle Bell: STRIKE ME DOWN – Whitehorse (Hamilton)
• Mykaël Nelson, Nicolas Lemieux , Albert Zablit - HISTOIRES SANS PAROLES – HARMONIUM SYMPHONIQUE – Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Simon Leclerc 
• Roberta Landreth - WOULDN’T YOU LOVE TO KNOW? – Steve Bell 
• Sarah Marcotte-Boislard: LA CIEL EST AU PLANCHER – Louis-Jean Cormier 
• Sarah Marcotte-Boislard , Jules Boislard-Gauthier: ASTRONOMIE(SUITE) – Dany Placard 

Blues Album

• Open Road - Colin James (released by Waterdown's Stony Plain Records & featuring Hamilton's Jesse O'Brien)
• Hope Dies Last - Steve Marriner (released by Waterdown's Stony Plain Records & featuring Hamilton's Jesse O'Brien)
• Pinky’s Blues - Sue Foley (released by Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
• bLOW - Colin Linden 
• LIVE at The Isabel - Miss Emily 

Breakthrough Artist

• 347aidan (Cambridge)
• Faouzia 
• JESSIA 
• Pressa 
• Tesher 

Children's Album

• Walk Off the Earth (Burlington) & Romeo Eats Vol. 1 - Walk Off the Earth & Romeo Eats 
• Words Words Words - ABC Singsong 
• Falling in Africa - Garth Prince 
• Ponderosa Bunchgrass and the Golden Rule - The Oot n’ Oots 
• Maestro Fresh Wes Presents: Young Maestro “School Days” 

Comedy Album

• All Inclusive Coma - Gavin Stephens (Hamilton)
• Grandma’s Girl - Andrea Jin 
• Tigre King - Hisham Kelati 
• Trillipino - Keith Pedro 
• Airports, Animals - Seán Devlin 

Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album

• Moments - Movement Worship (Woodstock)
• Songs Of The Lord - Jennifer Lewin 
• For The Kingdom - Kevin Adams & Voices of Praise 
• Vol 1 - Manic Drive 
• No Greater Love - The Color 

Contemporary Indigenous Artist or Group

• War Club - DJ Shub (Six Nations)
• When The Magic Hits - Adrian Sutherland 
• Wild Whisper - Jayli Wolf 
• Shawnee Kish - Shawnee Kish
• Life After - Snotty Nose Rez Kids 

Country Album

• Sophomore Slump - The Reklaws (Cambridge)
• Campfire Troubadour - Tim Hicks (St. Catharines)
• What Is Life? - Brett Kissel 
• Boys - Dean Brody 
• Girl To Girl - Tenille Arts 

Dance Recording

• Hypnocurrency - Rezz (Niagara Falls) & deadmau5 
• see - Ceréna 
• Sleep - DVBBS 
• Get Away (Radio Edit) - Karl Wolf 
• Caution - Kaytranada 

Group

• Arkells (Hamilton)
• The Reklaws (Cambridge)
• Loud Luxury 
• Mother Mother
• Valley

Juno Fan Choice

• 347aidan (Cambridge)
• bbno$ 
• Charlotte Cardin 
• Forest Blakk 
• JESSIA 
• Justin Bieber 
• Loud Luxury 
• Pressa 
• Shawn Mendes 
• The Weeknd 

Metal/Hard Music Album

• Power Trio - Danko Jones (released by Hamilton's Sonic Unyon)
• Bleed the Future - Archspire 
• Lifeblood - Brand of Sacrifice 
• Eternal Blue - Spiritbox 
• Days Before The World Wept - The Agonist 

Recording Engineer

• John ‘Beetle’ Bailey (New Hamburg)
• Evan Miles
• George Seara
• Hill Kourkoutis
• Serban Ghenea

Rock Album

• Blink Once - Arkells (Hamilton)
• Fuck Art - The Dirty Nil (Hamilton)
• Look Alive - Black Pistol Fire 
• Sisters Not Twins (The Professional Lovers Album)-  The Beaches 
• Hidden Gems - The Blue Stones

Traditional Roots Album

• Chinook Waltz - Over The Moon (released by Waterdown's Borealis Records)
• Back to the Harbour - Alan Doyle 
• New Time & Old Acoustic - John Reischman 
• Joyful Banner Blazing - Maria Dunn 
• Trench Songs - The Fugitives 

Adult Alternative Album

• Wilds - Andy Shauf 
• Live To Tape: Volume I – EP - Bahamas 
• Inwards & Onwards - Half Moon Run 
• All That Emotion - Hannah Georgas 
• Ignorance - The Weather Station 

Adult Contemporary Album

• Meet You at The Light - Desirée Dawson
• Nothing is Lost - Luca Fogale 
• The Outer Circle - Mathew V 
• The Art of Falling Apart - Serena Ryder 
• The Way You See Me - Tafari Anthony 

Alternative Album

• Hope For Sale - Chiiild 
• Death Of An Optimist - grandson 
• When Smoke Rises - Mustafa 
• If It Comes Down To It - Ruby Waters 
• The Fool - SATE 

Artist

• Charlotte Cardin 
• JP Saxe 
• Justin Bieber 
• Shawn Mendes 
• The Weeknd

Breakthrough Group

• Black Pistol Fire 
• cleopatrick 
• MONOWHALES 
• Ocie Elliott 
• Spiritbox

Classical Album (Solo)

• Remote Together - Catherine Lee 
• enargeia - Emily D’Angelo  
• Chopin: Complete Nocturnes - Jan Lisiecki 
• Songs for Murdered Sisters - Joshua Hopkins 
• Introspection: Solo Piano Sessions - Yannick Nézet-Séguin 

Classical Album (Small Ensemble)

• Beethoven: Sonates pour violon et piano / Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 5  and Charles Richard-Hamelin 
• Immersion - Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà 
• Klebanov: Chamber Works - ARC Ensemble 
• No Time for Chamber Music - Collectif9 
• 20C Remix - Standing Wave 

Classical Album (Large Ensemble)

• Messiah/Complex - Against the Grain Theatre with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Johannes Debus 
• Solfeggio L’Harmonie des saisons, conducted by Eric Milnes ft. Hélène Brunet 
• Sibelius 3 Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin 
• L’HOMME ARMÉ Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, conducted by Andrew McAnerney 
• Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 & Symphonic Dances The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin 

Classical Composition

• Flight - Dorothy Chang 
• Chamber Symphony No. 2 “Children’s War Diaries” - Jaap Nico Hamburger
• Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra - Kati Agócs
• Arras - Keiko Devaux 
• Breathing in the Shadows - Saman Shahi 

Contemporary R&B/Soul Recording

• Tabula Rasa - a l l i e 
• Vibe for Me (Bob for Me) - Aqyila
• Gifted - KALLITECHNIS 
• Supernovas - k-os 
• Take My Breath - The Weeknd 

Contemporary Roots Album

• Prospect - AHI 
• Outside Child - Allison Russell 
• Without People - Donovan Woods 
• My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider - Suzie Ungerleider 
• Open House - The Fretless

Electronic Album

• Out Here With You - ATTLAS 
• Conviction - Sydney Blu Blu 
• One More Saturday Night - The Halluci Nation 
• Oasis Sky - TOR 
• Catching Z’s - Zeds Dead 

Francophone Album

• Impossible à aimer - Cœur de pirate 
• Grignotines de Luxe - FouKi 
• Le ciel est au plancher - Louis-Jean Cormier 
• Acrophobie - Roxane Bruneau 
• Toute beauté n’est pas perdue - Vincent Vallières 

Global Music Album

• Kalasö Afrikana - Soul Sister 
• Mendó - Alex Cuba 
• Northside Kuisi, A New Tradition VOL.3 - Beny Esguerra and New Tradition Music 
• OYA - Donné Roberts 
• SMS for Location Vol.4 - Moonshine 

Instrumental Album

• Perséides - Cœur de pirate 
• That Tall Distance - David Myles 
• Madison Archives - Frank Evans & Ben Plotnick 
• Then is Now Rhapsody in Blue - Jens Lindemann with Jon Kimura Parker, Matt Catingub & Canadian All Star JazzPops Orchestra Riverdale 
• Hemenetset - Jorane L-A 

International Album

• 30 - Adele
• Planet Her - Doja Cat
• SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo 
• evermore - Taylor Swift Universal
• F*ck Love 3+: Over You The Kid - LAROI 

Jazz Album (Group)

• Worldview - Avataar 
• Voyage intérieur - Christine Tassan Quintette 
• The Prophet Esteban - Herrera Quintet 
• Vegetables - Lina Allemano Four 
• Arancina - The David Restivo Trio 

Jazz Album (Solo)

• When Is Ancient? - Andrés Vial 
• Aesthetics - Efajemue 
• Bridges - Jesse Ryan 
• Stranger Than Fiction-  Jon Gordon 
• Change of Plans - Will Bonness 

Music Video

• Ta main - Adrian Villagomez Ariane Roy 
• Meaningless - Norman Wong Charlotte Cardin 
• Neeye - Oli Shan Vincent de Paul & Kalainithan Kalaichelvan Shan Vincent de Paul, Navz-47 & Santhosh Narayanan 
• La nuée - Vincent René-Lortie Simon Leoza 
• Easy On Me - Xavier Dolan Adele 
• Album
• Phoenix - Charlotte Cardin 
• Dangerous Levels of Introspection - JP Saxe 
• Justice - Justin Bieber 
• Wonder - Shawn Mendes 
• TOO YOUNG TO BE SAD - Tate McRae 

Pop Album

• Phoenix - Charlotte Cardin 
• How Are You? - JESSIA 
• Justice - Justin Bieber 
• Wonder - Shawn Mendes 
• TOO YOUNG TO BE SAD - Tate McRae 

Producer

• Charlotte Day Wilson 
• Chromeo
• Kaytranada
• WondaGurl
• YogiTheProducer

Rap Album

• See You Next Wednesday - Belly
• Stock Exchange - Haviah Mighty 
• Emergency Tsunami - NAV 
• The Extravagant Collection - NorthSideBenji 
• Gardner Express (Deluxe) - Pressa 

Rap Single

• What I Like - anders and FRVRFRIDAY
• edamame ft. Rich Brian - bbno$ 
• BOLD - Charmaine 
• 30,000 ft. NorthSideBenji & Dj Charlie - B NRTHRN 
• Attachments ft. Taliban Glizzy - Pressa 

Reggae Recording

• Herb Dream - Blessed 
• By Any Means - Exco Levi 
• Don’t Let It Get To You - Josemar 
• Easy Now - Kairo McLean 
• Too Ruff - Kirk Diamond and Finn 

Single

• Make a Life, Not a Living - Brett Kissel
• Meaningless - Charlotte Cardin
• I’m not Pretty - JESSIA 
• Peaches ft. GIVĒON - Justin Bieber and Daniel Caesar 
• Take My Breath - The Weeknd 

Songwriter

• The Weeknd
• Allison Russell
• Charlotte Day Wilson
• Mustafa Ahmed
• TOBi

Traditional Indigenous Artist or Group

• Kakike Fawn - Wood 
• Singing Is Healing - Joel Wood 
• Manitou Mkwa Singers II - Manitou Mkwa
• Nang Giizhigoong - NIMKII & THE NINIIS 
• Angel Eagle – Cree Round Dance Songs Young Spirit 

Traditional R&B/Soul Recording

• ALPHA - Charlotte Day Wilson 
• Alt Therapy - Emanuel 
• Lost In You - Jon Vinyl 
• 24hrs - Savannah Ré 
• Love and Be Loved - Zenesoul ft. Aaron Ridge 

Vocal Jazz Album

• You Are the Light and the Way - Alex Bird and The Jazz Mavericks
• Earth Voices - Amanda Tosoff 
• Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy - Caity Gyorgy 
• The Weight Of Hope - Elizabeth Shepherd & Michael Occhipinti 
• Montreal (Live) - Holly Cole ft. Holly Cole Trio 

Underground Dance Single

• Waves ft. Grace Tither - BLOND:ISH 
• Hood Shit - Carlo Lio ft. MC Flipside 
• Shadows In The Dark ft. Elliot Moss - HNTR 
• All I Need (DJ-Kicks) - Jayda G 
• Sobriety - KOREA TOWN ACID 

Links: Juno Awards, More Juno Stories

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