Wednesday, February 1, 2023

2023 Juno Nominees (including tons of local acts)


Nominees for the 2023 Junos were recently announced and lots of local artists are in the running. Good luck on March 12-13 during the ceremony in Edmonton.

Below is a complete list of winners. Local acts are bolded.

Adult Contemporary Album

Alternative Album

Blues Album

Breakthrough Group

  • Harm & Ease (Burlington)
  • Banx & Ranx 
  • Rare Americans 
  • Tommy Lefroy 
  • Wild Rivers 

Children's Album

Classical Album (Large Ensemble)

  • Clara – Robert – Johannes: Lyrical Echoes Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Shelley 
  • Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 Ensemble Caprice, Ensemble Vocal Arts-Quebec, conducted by Matthias Maute, featuring Karina Gauvin 
  • Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen – Arvo Pärt: Symphonie No. 4, “Los Angeles” I Musici de Montréal, conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni 
  • Viola Borealis Orchestre de l’Agora, conducted by Nicolas Ellis, featuring Marina Thibeault 

Contemporary Roots Album

  • O Glory - Blackie and The Rodeo Kings (Hamilton, Guelph)
  • That Was You and Me - Fortunate Ones 
  • Hold on to Love - Shakura S’Aida Independent
  • Come Morning - The Bros. Landreth 
  • House of Dreams - The East Pointers

Country Album

  • Good Ol’ Days - The Reklaws (Cambridge)
  • Way Back - High Valley 
  • Honkytonk Revival - Jade Eagleson 
  • Bronco - Orville Peck 
  • Masquerades -  Tenille Townes 

Dance Recording

  • Spiral - Rezz (Niagara Falls)
  • Afterglow - Bob Moses and Kasablanca 
  • Shinigami Eyes - Grimes 
  • These Nights feat. KIDDO - Loud Luxury 
  • CTRL + ALT + DEL - Rêve 

Electronic Album

Fan Choice 

  • The Reklaws (Cambridge)
  • Avril Lavigne 
  • Lauren Spence-Smith 
  • MacKenzie Porter 
  • Preston Pablo 
  • Rêve
  • Shawn Mendes 
  • Tate McRae 
  • The Weeknd 
  • Tyler Shaw 

Group

Instrumental Album

Producer

  • Murda Beatz (Fort Erie)
  • Akeel Henry 
  • Banx & Ranx
  • KAYTRANADA
  • Mike Wise

Rap Single

Vocal Jazz Album

  • blue - Diana Panton (Hamilton)
  • Featuring - Caity Gyorgy 
  • Venez donc chez moi - Laura Anglade and Sam Kirmayer 
  • Nikki By Starlight - Nikki Yanofsky 
  • The Ostara Project - The Ostara Project 

Adult Alternative Album

  • Born Losers - Altameda
  • The Garden - Basia Bulat 
  • Being Somewhere - Dan Mangan 
  • Colder Streams - The Sadies 
  • How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars - The Weather Station 

Album

  • WHO HURT YOU? - Ali Gatie
  • Love Sux - Avril Lavigne 
  • Demons Protected By Angels - NAV 
  • i used to think i could fly - Tate McRae 
  • Dawn FM - The Weeknd 

Album Artwork

  • Emy Storey (Art Director, Designer, & Photographer), Becca McFarlane and Pamela Littky (Photographer): CRYBABY – Tegan and Sara 
  • Ian Ilavsky (Art Director & Designer), Maciek Szczerbowski (Illustrator): EVERYTHING WAS FOREVER UNTIL IT WAS NO MORE – Esmerine 
  • Jud Haynes (Art Director & Designer): KUBASONGS – Kubasonics 
  • Kee Avil (Art Director), Lawrence Fafard (Photographer): CREASE – Kee Avil 
  • Lights (Art Director & Illustrator), Virgilio Tzaj (Designer), Matt Barnes (Photographer): PEP – Lights 

Artist

  • Avril Lavigne 
  • Lauren Spencer-Smith
  • Michael Bublé 
  • Shawn Mendes
  • The Weeknd 

Breakthrough Artist

  • Dax 
  • Devon Cole 
  • Preston Pablo 
  • RealestK 
  • Rêve

Classical Album (Small Ensemble) 

  • Nagamo - Andrew Balfour and musica intima 
  • Hemsi: Chamber Works - ARC Ensemble 
  • Vagues et ombres - collectif9 
  • Early Italian Cello Concertos - Elinor Frey and Rosa Barocca, conducted by Claude Lapalme 
  • De la cour de Louis XIV à Shippagan! Chants traditionnels acadiens et airs de cour du XVIIe siècle - Suzie LeBlanc, Marie Nadeau-Tremblay, Vincent Lauzer, and Sylvain Bergeron 

Classical Album (Solo)

  • Winner of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2021 - Bruce Liu 
  • Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 - David Jalbert 
  • La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland - Isabel Bayrakdarian 
  • Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin - James Ehnes 
  • Fables - Philip Chiu 

Classical Composition

  • An Overall Augmented Sense of Well-being - Anthony Tan 
  • Bestiary I & II - Bekah Simms 
  • The Black Fish - Keyan Emami 
  • Prayers for Ruins - Nicole Lizée 
  • Supervillain Études - Vincent Ho 

Comedy Album

  • Let Me Hold Your Baby - Courtney Gilmour 
  • Splash Pad - Jackie Pirico 
  • A Person Who Is Gingerbread - Jon Dore 
  • Here Live, Not A Cat - Matt Wright 
  • Things Black Girls Say – The Album -  Zabrina Douglas 

Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album

  • Into The Wild - Dan Bremnes 
  • TRUST - Daniel Ojo 
  • Jordan St. Cyr - Jordan St. Cyr 
  • Only Ever Always - Love & The Outcome 
  • The Church Will Rise - Tehillah 

Contemporary Indigenous Artist or Group

  • Watin - Aysanabee 
  • Zhawenim - Digging Roots 
  • Code Red - Indian City 
  • Beyond The Reservoir - Julian Taylor 
  • The Crossing - Susan Aglukark 

Contemporary R&B Recording

  • When Flowers Bloom - Adria Kain 
  • If I Get Caught - dvsn 
  • No Longer in the Suburbs - Dylan Sinclair 
  • YESSIE - Jessie Reyez 
  • WTF - Savannah Ré  

Francophone Album

  • medium plaisir - Ariane Roy 
  • Mercure en mai - Daniel Bélanger 
  • PICTURA DE IPSE : Musique directe - Hubert Lenoir 
  • Crash Les - Louanges 
  • Chiac Disco - Lisa LeBlanc

Global Music Album

  • In the Footsteps of Rumi - Ghalia Benali Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian 
  • Thieves of Dreams - Lenka Lichtenberg
  • José Louis And The Paradox Of Love - Pierre Kwenders 
  • Vox.Infold - Ruby Singh 
  • Tradisyon - Wesli  

International Album

  • = - Ed Sheeran 
  • Harry’s House - Harry Styles 
  • MONTERO - Lil Nas X 
  • Midnights - Taylor Swift 
  • Red (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift 

Jazz Album (Group)

  • Semantics - Andrew Rathbun Quintet 
  • Talk Memory - BADBADNOTGOOD 
  • The History of Us - Carn Davidson 9 
  • Desert Bloom - Florian Hoefner Trio 
  • The Dragon’s Tail - Mark Kelso & the Jazz Exiles 

Jazz Album (Solo)

  • Joy - Ernesto Cervini 
  • A Little Louder Now - Lauren Falls 
  • El Tinajon - Luis Deniz 
  • Rumba - Rafael Zaldivar 
  • Kinds of Love - Renee Rosnes 

Metal/Hard Music Album

  • Psychic Jailbreak - Cancer Bats 
  • Merciless Destruction - Get The Shot 
  • Paid In Full - Skull Fist 
  • Synchro Anarchy - VOIVOD 
  • Thought Form Descent - WAKE 

Music Video

  • Fraud - Jessie Reyez (directed by Emma Higgins)
  • Unholy feat. Kim Petras  - Sam Smith and Kim Petras (directed by Floria Sigismondi)
  • Have Mercy - Chlöe (directed by Karena Evans)
  • Different Than Before - Amanda Sum (directed by Mayumi Yoshida)
  • Remember Me For Me feat. Lily Moore  - SonReal and Lily Moore (directed by Sterling Larose)

Pop Album

  • In The Meantime - Alessia Cara 
  • Love Sux - Avril Lavigne 
  • The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen 
  • i used to think i could fly - Tate McRae 
  • Dawn FM - The Weeknd 

Rap Album/EP

  • GONZO - Boslen 
  • Retrospected (Acoustic) - Classified 
  • The Fleur Print Vol. 2 - Jazz Cartier 
  • Demons Protected By Angels - NAV
  • Shall I Continue? - TOBi

Recording Engineer

  • Derek Hoffman
  • George Seara
  • Gus van Go
  • Jason Dufour
  • Serban Ghenea

Reggae Recoding

  • Water Ammoye - Lulaword
  • Like A Star - Celena 
  • Jah Love - Exco Levi 
  • In The Streets - Kairo McLean 
  • Reggae Party feat. Kairo McLean & Finn - Kirk Diamond, Kairo McLean and Finn

Rock Album

  • Otherness - Alexisonfire
  • Crisis Of Faith - Billy Talent 
  • Get Rollin’ - Nickelback 
  • Outta Sight - The Sheepdogs 
  • EXPLOSIONS - Three Days Grace 

Single

  • Bite Me - Avril Lavigne 
  • Flowers Need Rain - Preston Pablo and Banx & Ranx 
  • When You’re Gone - Shawn Mendes 
  • she’s all i wanna be - Tate McRae 
  • Sacrifice - The Weeknd 

Songwriter

  • The Weeknd
  • CITIZENS
  • Tate McRae
  • Tenille Townes
  • TOBi

Traditional Indigenous Artist or Group

  • kâkîsimo ᑳᑮᓯᒧᐤ - Cikwes 
  • Katajjausiit - Iva & Angu
  • Mikwanak Kamôsakinat - Joel Wood 
  • Ôskimacîtahowin: A New Beginning - Northern Cree 
  • Unbreakable - The Bearhead Sisters 

Traditional R&B/Soul Recording

  • Please Do Not Lean feat. BADBADNOTGOOD - Daniel Caesar 
  • PALISADE - Jon Vinyl 
  • All I Need - SAFE 
  • Last One feat. Dylan Sinclair - Savannah Ré 
  • HOW TO MAKE LOVE - THEHONESTGUY 

Traditional Roots Album

  • Hurricane Clarice - Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves 
  • 20 printemps - Le Vent du Nord 
  • Narrow Line - Mama’s Broke 
  • Tell ‘Em You Were Gold - Pharis & Jason Romero 
  • The Empress - The McDades 

Underground Dance Single

  • Debonair - Bensley 
  • Aye Aye - BLOND:ISH and Cameron Jack 
  • The Time Is (Now) - Fred Everything 
  • I Knew Techno - Greg Gow 
  • Easy - Tiga 

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