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Sunday, May 31, 2026

Kicking Off Black Music Month! Videos by LMT Connection, Colina Phillips, LTtheMonk

Update of 2021 Post


To start up Black Music Month, we'd like to showcase our local afro-Canadian music community!







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Saturday, May 9, 2026

Mother's Day Videos by Mike Lynch, Courtney Speid, Bridging the Divide with Rob Lamothe

Update of 2021 Post



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Friday, June 13, 2025

Winners of the 2025 Hamilton Arts Awards


Unfortunately, Hamilton Blues Lovers' marketing guru, Linda Fraser didn't win a 2025 Hamilton Arts Awards at the June 12th ceremony. her category was Arts Champion. We are very proud of her at HBL.

Below is a complete list of winners. Music-related winners are bolded.

Creator Awards

Arts Champion Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award: John Terpstra (Writer, poet, publisher)

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Throwback Thursday! Al Lucas, The Kings on American Bandstand, Kazzer

Brantford's Al Lucas



From the Wikipedia
Albert Bennington Lucas (November 16, 1916 – June 19, 1983) was a Canadian jazz double-bassist.

Lucas took piano lessons as a child from his mother, Francis Bradley Lucas, a concert pianist, eventually switching to bass and tuba at age 12.[1] After moving to New York City in 1933, Lucas played with Kaiser Marshall, then joined the Royal Sunset Orchestra, where he played from 1933 to 1942.[1] During the 1940s, Lucas appeared on record with Hot Lips Page, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Heywood (1944–45), Duke Ellington (1945), Mary Lou Williams (1946), James P. Johnson, J.J. Johnson, Ben Webster, Erroll Garner, and Eddie South.[1]

He toured and recorded with Illinois Jacquet from 1947 to 1953, recording in Detroit with Jacquet's all-star band which included Sonny Stitt, Leo Parker, Sir Charles Thompson, Maurice Simon and Shadow Wilson before returning to play with Heywood again from 1954 to 1956. He also recorded in the 1950s with Ruby Braff, Charlie Byrd, and Teddy Wilson. He worked primarily as a studio musician in his last two decades,[1] backing up groups at Apollo Theater performances, playing jazz only occasionally. Lucas died in New York City on June 19, 1983.


Links: Al Lucas, Video above courtesy of R Yurman

Oakville's The Kings on American Bandstand




Hamilton's Kazzer


Links: Kazzer, Video above courtesy KazzerVEVO
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Friday, March 3, 2023

Sue Foley, Artist Signed to Waterdown's Stony Plain Win 2 Austin Music Awards


Picture courtesy of Sue Foley

Ottawa-born Sue Foley recently received two Austin Music Awards on Sunday, February 26, 2023. Her current town voted her tops in both the Best Blues and Best Guitarist categories. Currently, she's signed to Waterdown's Stony Plain Records. 

Video above courtesy Austin Chronicle

Click here for the story from the Austin Chronicle.

Below is a complete list of winners

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Monday, April 4, 2022

CONGRATS! Burlington's Charles Moniz Wins 2022 Grammy + Canadian Winners

Burlington Sound Engineer Charles Moniz won a Grammy for Record of the Year at the Sunday April 2, 2022 ceremony for his work on Silk Sonic’s Leave the Door Open

Links: Charles Moniz, More Charles Moniz Stories, Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars, More Bruno Mars Stories, Video of the acceptance speech from the band, Video above courtesy of  Bruno Mars

Other Canadian Winners


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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Celebrating Black History Month! Videos Honouring Lincoln Alexander


This year (2022) on January 21, it would have been the 100th birthday of Hamilton's Lincoln Alexander.

Biographical Highlights

  • Born (January 21, 1922)
  • Joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (1942)
  • Studied Economics and History at McMaster University (1946-1949)
  • Married Yvonne "Tody" Harrison (1948)
  • Formed Duncan & Alexander, one the first inter-racial law partnerships in Canada (1950's-Early 60s)
  • Became first black member of Parliament (1968)
  • Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1985)
  • Published his autobiography Go to School, You're a Little Black Boy: The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander: A Memoir (2006)
  • Died at age 90 (October 19, 2012)
  • January 21 proclaimed Lincoln Alexander Day in Ontario (2013)

Here are two songs about this legendary man.

Links: D.O. Gibson, Video above courtesy of D.O. Gibson

Links: Bruce Simpson, Video above courtesy of Bruce Simpson

Learn more about Mr. Alexander below.

Video above courtesy of The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Video above courtesy of CHCH News

Video above courtesy of LincolnAlexanderLaw

Links: More Black History Month Videos, More 100th Birthdays

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Edmonton's Cadence Weapon Wins 2021 Polaris Music Prize


Edmonton's Cadence Weapon won the 2021 Polaris Music Prize.

From the Polaris Prize news release:

Cadence Weapon has won the 2021 Polaris Music Prize for the album Parallel World.

This is Cadence Weapon’s first Polaris Music Prize win.

The Prize, which was presented by CBC Music, goes to the best Canadian album of the year based on artistic merit without regard to genre, sales history or label affiliation. It was determined by a Grand Jury of 11 music media professionals drawn from the greater Polaris jury pool of 199 writers, editors, broadcasters, DJs and personalities from across the country. This was the 16th edition of the Polaris Music Prize.

“If I won this, I wanted to announce that next year I’ll be using some of my resources to organize some voter registration events around the Toronto municipal election, as well as the Ontario provincial election because we need some changes to our leadership and we need to make things more equitable for people in this city to be able to vote. I also just want to take this time to mention that Justin Trudeau has worn Blackface so many times he can’t even remember how many times, and he was just given a third term. That’s exactly why I need to be making rap records that are political, that are about these subjects because that’s still a fact today,” said Cadence Weapon in his acceptance speech.

“Finally, this goes out to everybody in Edmonton and Alberta! I’m from Edmonton, 780, we’ve never been here before. I want to show everybody, all the young artists listening right now, and watching this, you don’t have to be from Toronto. Your experience is valuable. Your art matters. Coming from Edmonton, I don’t want you to forget that. The prairies got something to say. E-town.”

Cadence Weapon’s victory came with a $50,000 monetary reward. The nine other Short List nominees each received $3,000 courtesy of Slaight Music. Additionally, Play MPE awarded Cadence Weapon with a global music promotion distribution package for one release (single or album) worth up to $3,025 CAD. Play MPE will also gift all nine remaining Short List artists with distribution packages worth up to $1,000 CAD each.

Links: Cadence Weapon, More Cadence Weapon Stories, Videos above courtesy of Cadence Weapon

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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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Saturday, June 16, 2018

CONGRATS! 2018 Hamilton Arts Award Winners


This year's Hamilton Arts Awards featured a number of musical winners. The hardware was handed out on Wednesday, June 6th at Theatre Aquarius.

Here's complete list of winners:

Each established winner got $2,500 and a bronze medallion. Emerging winners received $1,000. The Shirley Elford Emerging Artist Prize was worth $2,000.
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