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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

2025 Juno Nominations Including Local Artists


The 2025 Juno Award nominations were revealed a while back and a number of local acts were given the nod. The awards will be handed out on March 29 & 30 in Vancouver.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Below is the complete list of nominees. Local artists are bolded.

ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

ALBUM ARTWORK OF THE YEAR 

  • Kevin Hearn (Grimsby) , Lauchlan Reid (Art Director, Illustrator), Antoine Jean Moonen (Designer): Basement Days – The Glacials 
  • Erik M. Grice (Art Director), Vanessa Elizabeth Heins (Photographer): Chandler – Wyatt C. Louis
  • Gabriel Noel Altrows (Art Director, Illustrator) Good Kid 4 – Good Kid 
  • Kee Avil, Jacqueline Beaumont (Art Director), Fatine-Violette Sabiri (Photographer): Spine – Kee Avil
  • Keenan Gregory (Art Director): Altruistic – Royal Tusk 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

  • Complicated - Josh Ross (Waterdown/Burlington)
  • Inuktitut - Elisapie 
  • Submergé - Roxane Bruneau 
  • UNDISPUTED - Sukha 
  • THINK LATER - Tate McRae 

ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

  • Josh Ross (Waterdown/Burlington)
  • Kaytranada 
  • Shawn Mendes 
  • Tate McRae 
  • The Weeknd

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR 

  • Nemahsis (Milton)
  • Alexander Stewart 
  • AP Dhillon 
  • AR Paisley 
  • Chris Grey 
  • EKKSTACY 
  • Owen Riegling 
  • Sukha 
  • Tony Ann 

CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR

  • Buon Appetito - Walk off the Earth & Romeo Eats (Burlington) 
  • Shun Beh Nats’ujeh: We Are Healing Through Songs - Kym Gouchie 
  • Penny Penguin - Raffi & Good Lovelies 
  • Riley Rocket: Songs From Season One - Riley Rocket and Megablast 
  • Maestro Fresh Wes Presents: Young Maestro “Rhyme Travellers” - Young Maestro 

COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • Complicated - Josh Ross (Waterdown/Burlington)
  • The Compass Project – West Album - Brett Kissel 
  • Dallas Smith - Dallas Smith 
  • Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart - MacKenzie Porter 
  • Going Home - Tyler Joe Miller 

DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR

ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • Honey - Caribou (Dundas)
  • Union - ÈBONY 
  • Love, Care, Kindness & Hope - Fred Everything 
  • Timeless - Kaytranada 
  • This but More - Priori 

FAN CHOICE

  • Josh Ross (Waterdown/Burlington)
  • bbno$ 
  • Dean Brody
  • Jade Eagleson
  • Karan Aujla 
  • Les Cowboys Fringants 
  • Preston Pablo 
  • Shawn Mendes 
  • Tate McRae 
  • The Weeknd

RAP ALBUM/EP OF THE YEAR/ALBUM 

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR

SINGLE OF THE YEAR

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR ***

  • Nemahsis (Milton)
  • The Weeknd
  • AP Dhillon
  • Jessie Reyez
  • Mustafa
  • Evan Blair
  • Lowell
  • Nathan Ferraro
  • Shaun Frank
  • Tobias Jesso Jr.

BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • One Guitar Woman - Sue Foley (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
  • This Old Life - Big Dave McLean 
  • New Orleans Sessions - Blue Moon Marquee
  • YEAH! - David Gogo 
  • Samantha King and the Midnight Outfit - Samantha King & The Midnight 

TRADITIONAL ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

GROUP OF THE YEAR 

  • Crash Adams 
  • Mother Mother 
  • Spiritbox 
  • Sum 41 
  • The Beaches 

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR SOLO ARTIST 

  • Signature Philip Glass - Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà 
  • Messiaen - Barbara Hannigan 
  • freezing - Emily D’Angelo
  • Butterfly Lightning Shakes the Earth - India Gailey 
  • Williams Violin Concerto No. 1; Bernstein Serenade - James Ehnes 

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SMALL ENSEMBLE) 

  • Known To Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song  - Canadian Art Song Project
  • Rituæls - collectif9 
  • East is East - Infusion Baroque 
  • Marie Hubert : Fille du Roy - Karina Gauvin 
  • Kevin Lau: Under a Veil of Stars - St. John–Mercer–Park Trio 

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (LARGE ENSEMBLE)

  • Ispiciwin - Luminous Voices 
  • Alikeness - Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Fewer featuring Aiyun Huang, Deantha Edmunds and Mark Fewer 
  • Sibelius 2 & 5 Orchestre Métropolitain, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
  • Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Verklärte - Nacht Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare 
  • Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno featuring Marc-André Hamelin and Nathalie Forget 

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SOLO)

  • Montreal Jazz Series 1 (Échanges Synaptiques) - André Leroux 
  • The Head Of A Mouse - Audrey Ochoa 
  • Portrait of Right Now - Jocelyn Gould
  • Slice of Life - Larnell Lewis
  • The Antrim Coast - Mark Kelso 

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR (GROUP)

  • Time Will Tell - Andy Milne and Unison 
  • Reverence - Carn Davidson 9 
  • Harbour - Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra 
  • Gravity - Jeremy Ledbetter Trio 
  • Jaya - Raagaverse 

VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • Oh Mother - Andrea Superstein 
  • Hello! How Are You? - Caity Gyorgy 
  • Winter Song - Kellylee Evans 
  • Wintersongs - Laila Biali 
  • Magpie - Sarah Jerrom 

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

  • Disaster Pony - Disaster Pony 
  • Distant Places - Eric Bearclaw 
  • Ginger Beef - Ginger Beef 
  • memory palace - Intervals 
  • Confluencias - Melón Jimenez & Lara Wong 

CONTEMPORARY ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

  • Anniversary - Abigail Lapell 
  • For Eden - Boy Golden 
  • Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now - Donovan Woods 
  • Pathways - Julian Taylor 
  • Strange Medicine - Kaia Kater 

METAL/HARD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • Beyond the Reach of the Sun - Anciients 
  • PowerNerd - Devin Townsend 
  • Fire Kittie - Sumerian
  • The Fear of Fear - Spiritbox 
  • ULTRAPOWER - Striker 

ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • Roses - Aphrose 
  • Boundless Possibilities - Celeigh Cardinal 
  • Transitions - Kellie Loder 
  • Songs of Love & Death - Maddee Ritter 
  • Lovers’ Gothic - Maïa Davies 

POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR

  • bleeding heart - Alexander Stewart 
  • if this is it… - Jamie Fine 
  • Anywhere But Here - Preston Pablo 
  • Shawn Shawn - Shawn Mendes 
  • THINK LATER - Tate McRae 

UNDERGROUND DANCE SINGLE OF THE YEAR 

  • Bamboo - Ciel 
  • Keepsake - Destrata 
  • Distant Memories - Hernan Cattaneo, Hicky & Kalo 
  • La Vérité - Jesse Mac Cormack, Charlie Houston & Brö 
  • WTP - Suray Sertin 

RAP SINGLE OF THE YEAR

  • People - Classified Independent
  • Double The Fun - Haviah Mighty 
  • SHUT UP - Jessie Reyez 
  • BBE - Snotty Nose Rez Kids 
  • Hier encore - Souldia & Lost 

TRADITIONAL R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR 

  • Limbo - Aqyila 
  • The Worst - Benita 
  • Cyan Blue - Charlotte Day Wilson 
  • Halfway Broken - Luna Elle 
  • VELVET SOUL - THEHONESTGUY 

CONTEMPORARY R&B RECORDING OF THE YEAR 

  • Bloom - Aqyila 
  • Noire - Avenoir 
  • FOR THE BOY IN ME - Dylan Sinclair 
  • LOONY - LOONY 
  • Eastend - Confessions 

REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR 

  • Born to Be Free - Exco Levi 
  • FALLBACK - King Cruff & Runkus 
  • Destiny - Lee “Scratch” Perry & Bob Riddim 
  • Sky’s The Limit - Skystar
  • Rise - Tonya P 

COMEDY ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • Wonder Woman - Courtney Gilmour 
  • Honourable Intentions - Debra DiGiovanni 
  • Popcorn - Ivan Decker 
  • Sad Witch - Jess Salomon 
  • Down With Tech - Nathan Macintosh 

TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR 

  • New Comings - Black Bear Singers 
  • Winston & I - Brianna Lizotte 
  • Travelling Home - Cree Confederation 
  • REZilience - Northern Cree 
  • Ostesihtowin “Brotherhood” - Young Spirit 

CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR 

  • Precious Diamonds - Adrian Sutherland 
  • Boundless Possibilities - Celeigh Cardinal 
  • Brown Man - Sebastian Gaskin 
  • RED FUTURE - Snotty Nose Rez Kids
  • Pretty Red Bird - Tia Wood 

FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

  • Aliocha Schneider - Aliocha Schneider 
  • Demain il fera beau - Fredz La 
  • Toutes les rues sont silencieuses - Jay Scøtt 
  • Abracadabra - Klô Pelgag 
  • Pub Royal - Les Cowboys 

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • elenee. - Elenee 
  • My Foundation - Jordan St. Cyr 
  • Restore - Ryan Ofei 
  • Miracle In The Making - Tehillah Worship 
  • Hymns Alive (Live) - Toronto Mass Choir 

GLOBAL MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

  • Aarambh - Abby V 
  • Kanzafula - Ahmed Moneka 
  • Malak - Didon 
  • Dankoroba - Djely Tapa 
  • Niebla - Ramon Chicharron 

SOUTH ASIAN MUSIC RECORDING OF THE YEAR

  • The Brownprint - AP Dhillon 
  • COOLIN - Chani Nattan, Inderpal Moga & Jazzy B 
  • Love Like That - Jonita Gandhi 
  • Tauba Tauba (From “Bad Newz”) - Karan Aujla 
  • Arul Yanchan - Produced & Sandeep Narayan 

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR

  • Human - Adrian Villagomez Apashe & Wasiu 
  • Nasty - Jonah Haber Tinashe 
  • GRAVITY - Jorden Lee Sean Leon 
  • Name of God - Mustafa Mustafa 
  • Jump Cut - Winston Hacking Corridor 

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR 

  • Aaron Paris
  • Akeel Henry
  • Evan Blair
  • Jack Rochon
  • Shawn Everett

RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

  • George Seara
  • Hill Kourkoutis
  • Mitch McCarthy
  • Serban Ghenea
  • Shawn Everett

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR

  • Angmalukisaa Deantha Edmunds 
  • the fog in our poise - Gabriel Dharmoo 
  • L’écoute du perdu : III. « Voix jetées » - Keiko Devaux 
  • Dark Flower - Linda Catlin Smith 
  • String Quartet No. 4 “Insects and Machines” - Vivian Fung 

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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