On June 29, the 2020 Juno Award winners were announced in a pre-recorded special. Three of our talented local musical compatriots (all from Hamilton) won.
Ottawa was abuzz with musical goodness on June 16, 2019. The Country Music Association of Ontario Awards were held at our nation's capital. A number of local artists took home some hardware.
St. Catharines superstar Tim Hickswon two awards (Male Artists of the Year and the Nelson Compass Award).
Waterloo's Shane Guse (Western Swing Authority) has added another trophy to his shelf. He won theSpecial Instrument Player of the Year award (for his mandolin work) on September 9, 2018 at the Gala Award dinner of the 2018 Canadian Country Music Awards in Hamilton!
Many of our incredible area musicians will be heading down to London for the Country Music Association of Ontario Awards on June 3, 2018. There were quite a few local nominees and hopefully they'll pick up some hardware.
Hamilton boasts a few nominees: Blue Rodeo (which has Hamilton's Colin Crippsin its current lineup) and radio stationKX 94.7 FM are up for awards.
This year's Canadian Country Music Award Association Award nominees were recently announced and it once again boasted a number of area musicians in the mix.
St. Catharines country boy, Tim Hicks can't seem to stop being nominated and winning awards and he's continued on here. Tim's up for 3 categories (Male Artist of the Year, Interactive Artist or Group of the Year and Recording Package of the Year)
Cambridge songstress, Shae Dupuy is running against Tim for Interactive Artist or Group of the Year as well. Also from that city is Rich DaSilva(Drummer of the Year).
The Waterloo area is also teeming with nominees thanks to Shane Guse (Fiddle Player of the Year, Special Instrument Player of the Year) and Jimmy Boudreau(Drummer of the Year). Both are from the group, Western Swing Authority . Barrytone Studios(also from the Waterloo region) received a nod for Recording Studio of the Year.
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