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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

CONGRATS! 2022 Native American Music Awards Winners (including many Canadians)


We'd like to acknowledge all the local artists who were nominated for these awards

Below is a complete list of Canadian winners: 

CONGRATS EVERYONE!

Here are the rest of the fabulous winners:
  • Artists (Female): Ava Rose
  • Artist (Male): Sten Joddi
  • Blues Recording: Earl Slick and the West Side Social Club - The Roof Is Leaking
  • Blues Video: Blue Mountain Tribe  - Pray For Our Planet
  • Collaboration in a Video: Antoine Edwards ft.Gunner Jules, Spur Pourier - Miracle Patience
  • Contemporary Vocal Video: Shawn Michael Perry - I Will Survive
  • Country Song: Elexa Dawson - Music is Medicine
  • Debut Artist: Charles Wood III 
  • Debut Duo/Group: The Buffalo Weavers
  • Flute Recording: Aaron White - Moonlight Love Songs
  • Folk/Americana Video: Tabitha Fair - Toward The Rising Sun - Te Ata
  • Group: The Ripcords
  • Hall of Fame: Micki Free
  • Hip Hop Recording;  Sten Joddi - It’s A Native Thang
  • Honor/Tribute Song: Hannah Bonez & Leah Shenandoah - I’m Missing You
  • Honorable Mentions: Blanca Iris Acuna / Jack Holland / Just Jamez / Kelly Montijo Fink / Nick Lone / Richelle Darby Garcia / Scott Kalama of Blue Flames / Shibastick / Two Shields
  • Instrumental Recording: Ancient Voices - Under Open Sky
  • Instrumental Video: Connor Chee - Frybread
  • Lifetime Achievement: Rodney A. Grant / Paul LaRoche / Robert Tree Cody
  • Live Performance Video: The Storm - DOC Native featuring Spencer Battiest 
  • Living Legend: Oren Lyons
  • Narrative in a Video: Foreshadow - Protect Your People 
  • Native American Church Recording: Jarvis Hunter - Remembering Our Elders
  • Native Heart: Gera & T.M - Distant Lands
  • R&B Recording: Ramonda Holiday - The Rez Hummingbird
  • Rising Star: Bryant Waupoose III
  • Rock Recording: Blackbird - Who We Are
  • Single: Samantha Crain - Bloomsday
  • Song: G Precious with Macy Gray - Unforgettable
  • Traditional Recording: Spur Pourier - Shining So Bright
  • Traditional Vocal Video: Picadilly Billy - Martin Sisters 
  • Waila Recording: Intertribal - Tribal Harmony

Links: Native American Music Awards, More NAMA Stories


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Thursday, March 3, 2022

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

Breakthrough Artist

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

Children's Album

Comedy Album

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

Dance Recording

Group

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

Rock Album

Traditional Roots Album

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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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

CONGRATS! 1st Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Award Winners (incl local artists)

On June 12, 2021, the inaugural Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards were handed out at an online ceremony (shown below).

Links: SSIMA, More SSIMA Stories, Video above courtesy of Summer Solstice 

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


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Sunday, May 30, 2021

GOOD LUCK! First Annual Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Award Nominees

Nominees for the the first ever Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards have been unveiled and quite a few local artists are on the list. Hopefully, they'll be honoured at the online ceremony on June 12, 2021.

From the website: 

The SSIMAs will present awards representing a variety of music genres as well as awards for cultural contribution, significance, legacy and social voice. The award show itself will be two hours in length including the presentation of awards to the winners, as well as live performances from finalists throughout the evening.

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

Live Musical Performance

Artistic Video

Country Album

Hand Drum-Fiddle-Instrumental Album

International Indigenous Artist-Group Recording 

Inuit Artist-Group

Metis Artist-Group

Music In The Arts

Pop-Alternative-Rock Album

Pow Wow Traditional-Contemporary Album 

Radio Song Single

Rap-Hip Hop-Electronica Album 

Youth Leadership In Music


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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

GOOD LUCK! Lots of Local 2018 Juno Nominees!


There are a ton of local nominees at this year's Juno Awards. We are all proud of our are musicians.

Just in Hamilton alsone, we have the Arkells (3 nods + 1 for their producer), Steve Strongman (Blues Album of the Year), Terra Lightfoot (2 +1 for her engineer), Whitehorse (1 + 1 for their engineer), Brad Cheeseman (Jazz Album of the Year, Solo), David Braid (Jazz Album of the Year, Group) and Iskwé (Indigenous Music Album of the Year). Also, Waterdown's True North Records released two nominated albums by Bruce Cockburn and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Click here for the Hamilton Spectator story on the local nominations.



Links: Arkells, More Arkells Stories, Video above courtesy of ArkellsVEVO



Links: Brad Cheeseman, More Brad Cheeseman Stories, Video above courtesy of Brad Cheeseman

As for Burlington, there's Walk Off The Earth (Fan's Choice). Also, Bruno Mars: 24K Magic, an album Engineered by Charles Moniz is in the running for International Album of the Year. He recently won a Grammy for his work.



Links: Walk Off The Earth, More WOTE Stories,  Video above courtesy of Walk Off the Earth

Other nominees include
  • Downchild (ft members from Niagara and Brantford) for Blues Album of the Year
  • St. Catharines' Tim Hicks (Country Album of the Year)
  • Fort Erie's DJ Shub (Indigenous Music Album of the Year)
  • Rezz from Niagara Falls (Electronic Album of the Year)
  • Guelph's Ralph Bowen (Jazz Album of the Year, Solo)
  • Kitchener's Alysha Brilla (Adult Contemporary Album of the Year)



Links: Alysha Brilla, More Alysha Brilla Stories, Video above courtesy of Alysha Brilla

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Leading the nomination are rockers Arcade Fire and RnB artist Jessie Reyez with four each.

Below is a complete list of nominees: 

Fan Choice
Single
Country Album
Jazz Album (Solo)
Jazz Album (Group)
Alternative Album
Instrumental Album
Francophone Album of the Year
Children's Album
Classical Album (Solo or Chamber)
Classical Album (Large Ensemble)
Classical Album (Vocal or Choral)
Classical Composition
Rap Recording
Dance Recording
RnB/Soul Recording
Reggae Recording
Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album
World Music Album
Producer(s)
Album Artwork
Electronic Album
Metal/Hard Music Album
Comedy Album
Canadian Music Hall of Fame: Barenaked Ladies

Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award: Denise Donlon

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winners

Links: Juno Awards, More Juno Stories

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Monday, October 23, 2017

CONGRATS! Fort Erie's DJ Shub Earns Native American Music Award + 2 More Canadian Winners


Fort Erie's DJ Shub took home the Best Music Video (for Indomitable,  a song he performed with the Northern Cree Singers) at the 17th annual Native American Music Awards. The fabulous ceremony was held on Saturday, October 14th at Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino in Niagara Falls, New York



Links: DJ Shub, More DJ Shub Stories, Video above courtesy of DJ Shub

Two more Canadians earned awards that night: BC Country artist, Kelly Derrickson (Best Female Artist) and Alberta group Northern Cree (Best Pow Wow Recording)



Links: Kelly Derrickson, More Kelly Derrickson Stories, Video above courtesy of  Kelly Derrickson



Links: Northern Cree, More Northern Cree Stories, Video above courtesy of Northern Cree

CONGRATS EVERYONE!

Here's a complete list of winners. Canadians are bolded:

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

GOOD LUCK! Local and Canadian Native American Music Award Nominees! VOTE!


Fort Erie's DJ Shub was recently nominated for three 2017 Native American Music Awards (Song/Single + 2 Music Video nominations).  Many other Canadian artists were also given nods in various categories.



Links: Carsen Gray, DJ Shub, More DJ Shub Stories, Video above courtesy of Carsen Gray

You can help our local talent by voting (CLICK HERE)! Winners will be announced October 14, 2017.

Here's a complete list of nominees. Canadians are bolded:

Song/Single
Music Video (Conceptual )
New Artist or Debut Artist
Female Artist 
Folk Recording 
Record 
Music Video (Performance)
Duo/Group
Pow Wow Recording
Male Artist
Native Heart (Non Native)
Instrumental Recording
Native American Church Recording 
Traditional Recording 
Waila Recording 
Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winners