2025 Niagara Music Award Winners & Nominees

On Sunday, April 13, 2025, the 14th edition of the Niagara Music Awards were handed out at the Sheraton Fallsview Conference Centre.

Below are a list of winners and nominees. Winners are listed at the top of the list and bolded.

ADULT CONTEMPORARY

• Lastli: Favourite Colour
• Amanda Lyn Parker: Lucid Dreaming
• Caleb Fast: Further From Me
• Junyor: We Don't Dance
• Kathryn Sinopoli: Regret
• Mel Monaco: Love Tides
• Permilla: Let Me Down
• Vibi: Matress

ALBUM

• Spencer Macenzie: Preach to My Soul
• Dialect Sosa: Ultra Violence – Decline Of A Beautiful Mind
• Evan Rotella: Last Train Home
• Moe Killed My Cool: Call Me When You Get Home
• Otherwives: Everlasting
• Sea Of Gold and Burgandy: Golden Horizons

BLUES

• Spencer Macenzie: Baptized By Cold Water
• Danny Boy Phelan
• Davis Hall and the Green Laterns: Carrottown
• Gil Hicks: Cables Out
• Terry K3tl: Blues All Night

COUNTRY

• Spencer Burton: Going Fishin
• Samantha Ava: Dead Town Diva
• Andy Colonico: Wild Card Girl
• Marty Hopkins: You Don’t Know Jack
• Dean Young: So It Is What It Is

EDM

• Kavai: Bob Does Acid
• Errunhrd: I’m Sorry

FEMALE 

• Vibi: Mattress
• Samantha Ava: Dead Town Diva
• Emily Andrews: Electric Wildlife
• Kathryn Sinololi: Regret
• Errunhrd: I’m Sorry
• Kennedy Von Kat: Edward Scissor Hands
• Paige Koop: Foolproof DIY
• Rita Visser: Rita and The Daydreamers
• Amanda Lyn Parker: Lucid Dreaming
• Mel Monaco: Love Tides
• Sleepy Jean: Six Feet Deep
• Nicole Cerminara: Let Me Down

FOLK

• Evan Rotella: Last Train Home
• Jeff Beadle: Batty Woman
• Fallen Leaves: Electric Wildlife
• Tribe 369: The Vibe Band Gypsy
• Suzie Vinnick: Talk to Me

HEAVY METAL

• Gutter Crowns: Shell
• Shadow Of The Fallen: Temples Of Stone
• Over It: Garden Style
• The Band Formely Known as Midnight Tripper: Dental Man
• Sunnycide: Decent
• Stuck In Neutral: Heart Attack
• Duskwalker: Never Going Back

HIP HOP  

• Cdot: DND &  Frvr Lonely
• Dialect Sosa: Running
• Choom Gang: Danky Kong
• Humble Hab: Bubble Gum
• Ezza E Featuring DJ Flip & Humble Hab: Let Go Pt2
• DPAX Nick Bee, K Double D, Everett Champion: Motions
• Everett Champion: Ghost Rider
• Pluto Hann: In Case You Were Wondering
• Caleb Fast: Sex and Drugs
• 80 Empire: RLWD

INSTRUMENTAL

• NT 1078: De Shrill
• P8E: Cruise Control
• Glass Apple Bonzai: Brother Bones
• Shiver: Going Underground
• M.U.L.L.E.Y: Musicians Night Off
• Shatterscript: Ignite
• Davis Hall And The Green Lanterns: Carrotown

MALE

• Spencer Burton: Going Fishin
• Evan Rotella: Last Train Home
• Lastli: Favourite Colour
• Junyor: Hurricane
• Jeff Beadle: Batty Woman
• Cdot: DND
• Nathaniel Goold: Electric Wildlife
• CD Onofrio: Sea Of Gold and Burgundy
• Brandon Agnew: The Blue That Shakes You
• Zach Mesic: Redemption Arc - Otherwives
• Spenscr Mackenzie: Preach My Soul
• Jonah Cappa: Twenty First Century – Galaxy Drive

MUSIC VIDEO

• Take The Money: Giancarlo & The Scarfones
  
  
  
  Links: Giancarlo & The Scarfones, Video above courtesy of Giancarlo & The Scarfones
  
  
• 1982: 80 Empire
• Live: Samantha Ava
• Forced To Walking: Thunderclap
• Going Fishin: Spencer Burton
• Material: The Maysides
• DND: Cdot
• Golden Horizon (Thats Alright): Sea Of Gold and Burgundy
• Mattress: Vibi
• Pieces Of Me: Suicide Star
• Maybe May: Still Mine
• Hometown: Roadwaves

NEW ARTIST

• Amanda Lyn: Parker Lucid Dreaming
• Abby Cabaj: It's Not My Fault
• Kennedy Von Kat: Edward Scissor Hands
• Dan Boyko: Lost Cause
• Jake Reynolds: If We Play Our Cards Right
• Ryan Thomas Smelle: Love Monkeys
• Brandon Agnew: The Kind Of Blue That Shakes You
• The Walkthrough: Timid

NEW GROUP  

• Days On Parade
• Stone Blind
• Lastlii
• Junyor
• Sunshine Express
• UFI
• Moe Killed My Cool
• Saint Paul
• Maybe May
• Playing With Fire
• Mushroom Valley
• Feverish Lemons
• Galaxy Drive

ORIGINAL ARTIST

• Errunhrd: I’m Sorry
• Codesis: Hold on to You
• Thunderclap: Forced To Walking
• Glass Apple Bonzai: Sound Of Love
• Anthony Botting: Boy
• Sensorium Angels: Artic Blueberry
• Eric Laurent: Back Seat

ORIGINAL GROUP

• Road Waves
• Sunshine Express
• Giancarlo and the Scarfones
• Sea Of Gold and Burgandy
• Moe Killed My Cool
• Davis Hall and the Green Lanterns
• Mushroom Valley
• Permilla

ORIGINAL SONG

• Dear Daughter: Rita And The Daydreamers
  
  
  
  Links: Rita And The Daydreamers, Video above courtesy of  Rita & the Daydreamers - Topic
  
  
• Maryanne: Evan Rotella
• Favourite Colour: Lastlii
• Wild Card Girl: Andy Colonico
• Timid: The Walkthrough
• Sound Of Love: Glass Apple Bonzai
• Love Monkeys: Ryan Thomas Smelle
• Again and Again: Cdot
• Carrotown: Davis Hall And The Green Lanterns

PRODUCER/SONG/ARTIST

• Joe Lipinski & Rita Visser: Northern Daydream by Rita Visser
• Matt Keighan: One Tree Down by Rob Repovs
• Peter Havencamp: Forced To Walking by Thunderclap
• Daniel Belasco: Sound Of Love by Glass Apple Bonzai
• Erunhrd: I’m Sorry by Erunhrd
• Lucas Rezza: RLWD by 80 Empire
• Steve Goldberger: A Sea Of Gold and Burgandy

PROMOTER

• Rob Repovs
• Medium Baby
• Chico Sanchez

PUNK

• Otherwives: Everlasting
• The Maysides: Been There Done That
• Daze Away: Air Japan
• Days On Parade: Look Alive
• Chub: No Sleeves till Brooklyn
• Welland Wasted: Democracy and Hypocrisy
• Go Ogopogo: I Get It
• Galaxy Drive: Twenty First Century
• Nitro Girl Poison: In Every Puff

ROCK  

• Moe Killed My Cool: I Want to be Fooly Cooly With You
• Stone Blind: Should’ve Known
• Junyor: Hurricane
• Aeronaut: Keep the Light On
• Kennedy Von Kat: Edward Scissor Hands
• Dan Boyko: Lost Cause
• Foolproof: DIY
• Suicide Star: Pieces of Me
• Cocktails: Get Off My Back
• Maybe May: Still Mine
• Dark City Panik: Sell Me A Lie
• Breaking Still: l Devil Inside My Mind
• Revive The Rose: Good Enough

VENUE

• Local
• Partridge Hall, First Ontario
• Warehouse
• Taps
• Big Texas
• Doc Magilligans
• Camp Cataract
• The Bank Art House
• OLG Stage
• Industria
• Moose and Goose
• Meridian Centre
• Donnelly's

GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT

• Stephan Moccio, Rezz

BEYOND NIAGARA 

• Cassandra DiFruscio

Links: Niagara Music Awards, More NMA Stories

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