The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards were recently announced and quite a number of Canadian are in the running for the prestigious prize.
In local news, Waterdown's Stony Plain Records have two albums up for the Best Traditional Blues Album category: Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down (co-produced, co-written and guest starring Hamilton/Kitchener Bluesman Steve Strongman + backing vocals by Chris Ayries (Hamilton) on 'Sideline') and Sue Foley: One Guitar Woman. Nothing In Rambling, a song from Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down is also nominated for Best Americana Roots Performance.
The 67th GRAMMY Awards, will take be at the Crypto.com Arena (LA) on Sunday, February 2 and broadcast live on the CBS.
Here is the official Grammy Nominee Announcement.
Below is a complete list of Canadian nominees.
Steve Strongman (Hamilton/Kitchener)
- Best Traditional Blues Album (Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down, co-producer, co-writer, guest on tracks) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
Links: Fabulous Thunderbirds, More Fabulous Thunderbirds Stories, Video above courtesy of The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Topic - Best Americana Roots Performance (The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Nothing In Rambling ft Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood, Co-producer) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
Chris Ayries (Hamilton)
- Best Traditional Blues Album (Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down, backing vocals on 'Sideline') (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
- Best Traditional Blues Album (One Guitar Woman) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
- Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Saltburn soundtrack, ft the song No Cars Go)
- Best Pop Solo Performance (Beyoncé - Bodyguard / Texas Hold 'Em, co-writer)
- Best Country Song / Record of the Year / Song of the Year (Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em, co-writer)
- Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, co-writer on some tracks)
- Best Classical Solo Vocal Album (Fotina Naumenko - Bespoke Songs, pianist)
- Best Reggae Album: (Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Waiting In Vain)
- Best Musical Theatre Album (The Wiz - 2024 Broadway Cast Recording)
- Best R&B Song (Coco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh), songwriter)
- Best Rap Song ($ ft Rich the Kid & Playboi Carti - Carnival, songwriter)
- Album of the Year (Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department, audio engineer & mixing)
- Best Engineered Album (Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet, audio engineer & mixing)
- Best Country Solo Performance (Beyoncé - 16 Carriages, production and mixing recording engineer)
- Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, production and mixing)
- Best Country Album / Best Country Solo Performance / Best Country Song / Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well, mixing)
- Best Remixed Recording (Doechii - Alter Ego)
- Best Dance/Electronic Music Album (Timeless)
- Best Dance/Electronic Recording (Witchy ft Childish Gambino)
- Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Deadpool & Wolverine soundtrack, ft the song I'm With You)
- Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein with London Symphony Orchestra and Bradley Cooper)
- Best Opera Recording (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Catan: Florencia en el Amazonas / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Puts: the Hours)
- Best Reggae Album: Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Is This Love)
- Best Metal Performance (Cellar Door)
- Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Twisters: The Album, ft the song Boots Don't with Breland)
- Best Melodic Rap Performance (We Still Don't Trust You with Future and Metro Boomin)
- Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Cyan Blue)
- Best R&B Song (SZA - Saturn, songwriter)
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
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