Canadian Music Week 2012: NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2012 SIRIUSXM INDIE AWARDS

TORONTO, ON – February 24, 2012 – Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2012 Independent Music Awards – The SiriusXM Indies. The winners will be presented on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the legendary Canadian Ballroom of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto, beginning at 8:00pm. Now in their 12^th year, The SiriusXM Indies acknowledge, promote and honour achievements of Canadian and international artists in the independent music sector. In total, 140 nominees have been shortlisted for this year’s ceremony; the full list of nominees and award categories can be found below.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Austra – Feel It Break (Paper Bag)
City and Colour – Little Hell (Dine Alone)
Feist – Metals (Arts & Crafts)
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life (Matador/Beggars Canada)
Mother Mother – Eureka (Last Gang)

SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Alyssa Reid – Alone Again (Wax)
Crystal Castles – Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith) (Last Gang)
Kristina Maria – Let’s Play (MapleMusic)
Raghav – Fire (Cordova Bay)
The Sheepdogs – I Don’t Know (Dine Alone)

GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARCity and Colour (Dine Alone)
Hey Rosetta! (Sonic)
Mother Mother (Last Gang)
The Pack A.D. (Mint)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)

SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEARCoeur de Pirate (Grosse Boîte)
Dan Mangan (Arts & Crafts)
Feist (Arts & Crafts)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
The Weeknd (Independent)

VIDEO OF THE YEARCoeur de Pirate – Adieu (Grosse Boîte)
Danny Fernandes – Hit Me Up (CP)
Marianas Trench – Haven’t Had Enough (604)
Neverending White Lights – Falling Apart (feat. Bed of Stars) (MapleMusic)
Timber Timbre – Woman (Arts & Crafts)

LIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARDeadmau5 (Mau5trap Recordings/Ultra)
Hollerado (Arts & Crafts)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
Timber Timbre (Arts & Crafts)

ALTERNATIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARBraids  (Flemish Eye)
Destroyer (Merge)
Grimes (Arbutus)
Library Voices (Nevado)
Sandro Perri (Constellation)

BLUES ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARDavid Gogo (Cordova Bay)
Harry Manx & Kevin Breit (Stony Plain)
MonkeyJunk (Stony Plain)
Suzie Vinnick (Independent)
The 24th Street Wailers (Independent)

CHILDREN’S ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARJack Grunsky (Casablanca Kids Inc.)
Mike Whitla (Independent)
Splash’N Boots (Splash Records)
The Kerplunks (Independent)
Will Stroet (Independent)

COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARDean Brody (Open Road)
Doc Walker (Open Road)
High Valley (Open Road)
Jason McCoy (Open Road)
Tara Oram (Open Road)

ELECTRONIC ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAustra (Paper Bag)
Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
Deadmau5 (Mau5trap Recordings/Ultra)
Junior Boys (Domino)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)

FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARBlackie And The Rodeo Kings (File Under: Music)
Bruce Cockburn (True North)
Elliott Brood (Paper Bag)
One Hundred Dollars (Outside)
The Deep Dark Woods (Six  Shooter)

FRANCOPHONE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARCoeur de Pirate (Grosse Boîte)
Galaxie (C4)
Jimmy Hunt (Dare To Care)
Les Breastfeeders (Blow The Fuse)
Malajube (Dare To Care)

JAZZ ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARColin Stetson (Constellation)
Cory Weeds (Cellar Live)
Diana Panton (eOne)
Jill Barber (Outside)
Sophie Milman (eOne)

METAL ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARDevin Townsend (Inside Out/eOne)
Fuck The Facts (eOne)
KEN Mode (Profound Lore)
Protest The Hero (Underground Operations)
Untimely Demise (Sonic Unyon)

POP ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAlyssa Reid (Wax)
Danny Fernandes (CP)
Kristina Maria (MapleMusic)
Mia Martina (CP)
Neverest (VicPark Group/Fontana North)

PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAbandon All Ships (Underground Operations)
Cancer Bats (Distort)
Chixdiggit (Fat Wreck Chords)
Fucked Up (Matador/Beggars Canada)
Living With Lions (Black Box)

ROCK ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARSloan (Outside)
The Pack A.D. (Mint)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
The Trews (Bumstead)
Theory of a Deadman (604)

URBAN ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARD-Sisive (Urbnet)
Danny Fernandes (CP)
JRDN (Kuya/Fontana North)
Swollen Members (eOne)
The Weeknd (Independent)

WORLD ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAline Morales (Independent)
Kiran Ahluwalia (Independent)
Massiel Yanira (MapleMusic)
Minor Empire (Independent)
Pavlo (Fontana North)

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEARAdele – 21 (XL)
Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Naïve)
Taylor Swift – Speak Now (Big Machine/Open Road)

INTERNATIONAL SINGLE OF THE YEARAdele – Rolling In The Deep (XL)
AWOLNATION – Sail (Red Bull)
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) (Eleven)
Seether – Country Song (Wind-Up)
Young The Giant – My Body (Roadrunner)

INTERNATIONAL GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARBeirut (Pompeii)
Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
M83 (Naïve)
Metronomy (Because)
Wilco (dBpm/Anti)

INTERNATIONAL SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEARAdele (XL)
Anna Calvi (Domino)
Taylor Swift (Big Machine/Open Road)
Tom Waits (Anti)
tUnE-yArDs (4AD)

INTERNATIONAL VIDEO OF THE YEARAWOLNATION – Sail (Red Bull)
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) (Eleven)
Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Independent)
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy (Nonesuch)
Tyler, the Creator – Yonkers (XL)

INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAWOLNATION (Red Bull)
SBTRKT (Young Turks/XL)
The Jezabels (Dine Alone)
The Naked and Famous (Somewhat Damaged)
Young The Giant (Roadrunner)

SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Adrian Glynn
Dinosaur Bones
Imaginary Cities
Indian Handcrafts
Low Level Flight
Nash
Rich Aucoin
The Pack A.D.
Timber Timbre
Wildlife

The 2012 SiriusXM Indies will feature performances by Passion Pit, The Sheepdogs, Dan Mangan, Rich Aucoin, The Pack A.D. and Young Empires, along with a special reunion by this year’s Hall of Fame inductees Treble Charger. The show will be broadcast live to air on “The Verge” (XM 151) and “Iceberg” (Sirius 151). Tickets for the Sirius XM Indies are available for purchase for $39.50 at Ticketmaster, http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/100044279A0E5736?artistid=1403082&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60, http://www.canadianmusicfest.com/tickets/ticket-details/?schedule_ID=20&artist_ID=55, http://www.indies.ca/, Rotate This and Soundscapes.
An initiative of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & the Arts (CAAMA), the awards are limited to independent artists and cover 14 genres of music. Both a public and an industry vote decide the winners. Voting is now open at http://www.indies.ca/.  For additional details and voting information, please visit the website.

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About Canadian Music Week
Celebrating 30 years, Canadian Music Week is Canada’s leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries.  Combining four information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; a comedy festival; four awards shows and the nation’s largest New Music Festival – Canadian Music Fest – CMW spans a five-day period from March 21 to March 25, 2012 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and over 60 various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe.  For more information, visit http://www.cmw.net/.
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Canadian Music Week
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MIA MARTINA CELEBRATES HER ALBUM RELEASE WITH ET! CANADA AT THOMPSON HOTEL TORONTO!
Mia Martina celebrated the release of her debut album DEVOTION inside the beautiful rooftop and patio at the Thompson Hotel in Toronto. Hosted by ET! Canada and fashoin producer Angela Smith and music by world renowned Jump Smokers the event was a great time for all that were there. Some of the attending guests included recording artist The Weeknd, labelmates Belly, Massari, Danny Fernandes, Tyler Medeiros, Degrassi star Alicia Josepovic and Craig Smartamong others. It was a special night not only for Mia, but for everyone who was there to celebrate with her. Thanks to all radio and TV and media personalities and teams that attended and showed support.

Mia Martina Bio



Blame the lingering impact of Footloose, but small towns aren't exactly known as bastions of dance music. When new stars do groove their way onto the floor, they’re usually big city club kids like Lady Gaga. But this rule has met its exception with Mia Martina.The up-and-coming clubland crooner – the sensual voice fuelling the accordion-inflected smash “Stereo Love” and its fast rising follow-up “Latin Moon” was born and raised in St. Ignace, a tiny New Brunswick village of about 500.Martina began singing while still knee-high and spent her childhood being driven back and forth to the closest “city,” Moncton, for music and voice lessons. “I wanted to be a star,” she laughs. But for a small-town girl, it seemed a pipe dream. “I pushed it to the side so I could find something else to do.”Fate had other plans. After high school, Martina headed off to Ottawa for university where the teenager happened upon an ad for an internship at a local label, CP Records, which was making a name for itself with R&B smoothie Massari and hard-edged rapper Belly.“Oh my god, yeah, it was totally different. I wasn’t use to the parties, the cars, the jewellery and all that. It was totally different. I was out of my element,” says the singer who was then so quiet her bosses kidded that she was mute. “I never told them that I sang because I was shy. But after a year I finally got the guts. My passion was music, that’s what I’m good at, so maybe this was God saying this is my chance. I had to speak up.”After impressing CP CEO Tony Sal, Martina went from delivering CDs to radio stations and office admin work to singing backup in the studio for Danny Fernandes and Belly, the latter of whom became her mentor. “Belly is so talented, not just in hip-hop and R&B, but as a songwriter he’s so amazing. He taught me how to find my own sound as an artist.”Martina wanted to bring soulful R&B to dance music to create an emotional hybrid that drew inspiration from Sade and Kylie Minogue because, as Martina, notes, “they make timeless music.”Success took awhile to arrive, but once it did, it took off. Dance music’s biggest label, Ultra, was looking to remix a Euro hit by Edward Maya called “Stereo Love.” A series of serendipitous events, including a pre-Idol J.Lo declining, ended with the untested Martina getting the gig last summer. Within a couple weeks her vocal was recorded and released. It proceeded to blow the hell up.“I was picking up my dry cleaning and was like, Oh my god, that’s me!” she recalls of hearing her voice for the first to me on the radio. “I went into my car and I cried. It was so crazy. This was my dream since I was a little girl. I come from such a small place, those things just don't happen. It was a very surreal experience for me. It still feels surreal.”Her first ever show was in Miami in front of six thousand people. “I felt like I was in another world. The fans loved it and it was so amazing to see that. That was my rush.” A hundred shows followed, as did a platinum plaque for “Stereo Love.” The song went top ten on the Canadian pop charts while ruling radio, topped the US dance charts, was nominated for a dance Juno and an MMVA for “most watched video” and, thanks to a Don Omar remix, became a favourite in Latin communities throughout the Americas.The trilingual singer followed with “Latin Moon” and the half-English, half-Spanish hot weather tune “Summer Love,” which she dubs a spiritual sequel to “Stereo Love.”Martina will then keep the summer going well into the winter when her debut album Devotion drops in August. Combining epic ballads (“Missing You”) with uptempo club bangers (“Turn it Up”), Martina’s dance-pop boasts crystalline production and a nocturnal soul. It’s a record designed to make you lose yourself on the dancefloor, but also soothe you if you go home alone. “It took me three years to complete it,” Martina says proudly. “Every song on there has emotions, so it really captivates you. I wanted to make an album where any age group can enjoy it. It’s not too hard, not too soft—it’s perfect.”

Juno Awards 2012: Drake, Nickelback, Feist among leading nominees

Drake and Feist among Juno nominees

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City and Colour, Dan Mangan, Drake, Feist, Hedley and Nickelback led the Juno Award nominations Tuesday with four nods apiece, setting up a wide-open race at this year's gala in Ottawa.

No one artist managed to rise above the pack as nominations were announced at a glitzy, crammed gathering in Toronto. After the first group of nominees, Avril Lavigne, Michael Buble and Deadmau5 followed with three nods each.
Teen sensation Justin Bieber also earned a pair of nominations — including one for album of the year — while other multiple nominees included Blue Rodeo co-frontman Jim Cuddy, Hamilton rockers Arkells and Montreal-based indie-rockers Braids.

Read the full list of nominees.

Star Trek icon William Shatner, meanwhile, has been named host of the April 1 gala, to be broadcast on CTV.

With so many multiple nominees, many artists will be duking it out with one another over and over again in several categories.
“I could kick Bieber's ass but not Drake — he's a bit hardcore,” laughed Niagara Falls, Ont., electronic producer Deadmau5 (nee Joel Zimmerman), who's up for the Juno fan choice award and artist of the year — a nomination he called a “shocker.”
He's probably less surprised about being up for best dance recording, a category he's won four years in a row.
“It's not really weird when you're only one of like five Canadians making dance music these days,” he said of the unique scenario. “(But) I'm sure a lot more are, and that just kind of paves the way for a lot more to be recognized.”
Cuddy, meanwhile, has two nominations for his third solo record, “Skyscraper Soul,” on the same night that Blue Rodeo will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
“It's huge,” Cuddy said. “Obviously we love the status we have as a band that's been around for a long time, but you do want your newest work to be acknowledged. So I'm very, very pleased.”
When asked who he was excited about seeing at this year's show, Cuddy was definitive.
“William Shatner!” he said, his eyes widening. “I'm thrilled.”
Indeed, the hosting choice was drawing plenty of attention from nominated artists at Tuesday's bash. Shatner marks a sharp generational shift from last year, when Toronto rapper Drake received plaudits for showcasing his comedic side during an engaging turn as MC.
Still, there was certainly a buzz surrounding the 79-year-old Montrealer.
“Hopefully he wears the Trekkie suit at least for a little bit,” said Diamond Rings' John O'Regan, nominated for new artist of the year.
“They don't often have non-music people hosting,” said Sloan's Patrick Pentland, before joking: “The Canadian entertainment business — there's tons of people. And most of them probably turned it down. But they got William Shatner.”
Of the marquee names nominated, Mangan might have come as a surprise to some fans. Among his four nods, the 28-year-old Vancouver native is up for new artist of the year and songwriter of the year, a category in which he'll compete with Cuddy, Ron Sexsmith, Feist and Dallas Green.
Album of the year will pit Christmas albums by Bieber and Buble up against the latest from Drake, Avril Lavigne and Nickelback, while the field for artist of the year includes City and Colour, Deadmau5, Feist, Buble and, yes, Drake again.
The 25-year-old from Toronto was up for a leading six awards at last year's show before coming up empty-handed — and he still has fans who feel that was unjust.
“Drake's killing it right now,” O'Regan said. “And he deserves to win the awards twice over for what happened last time.
“So hopefully he wins them all.”
More performers were also added to the lineup on Tuesday — including group of the year nominees Nickelback and Hedley — joining Feist, City and Colour, Deadmau5 and Blue Rodeo.
For now, most nominees seemed focused on celebrating. Eighteen-year-old new artist of the year nominee Alyssa Reid was already mulling a shopping spree.
“I know this is very, very girly of me, but as soon as we leave here I'm going to look for a dress,” she said with a laugh.
“I just saw this place as we were driving here and I said: 'Oh my gosh, if we are nominated, I am stopping there, and I am getting that dress in the window.'”
Meanwhile, Wayne Petti of Cuff the Duke — up for adult alternative album of the year — already had evening plans with family.
“I'm actually going out for dinner with my dad tonight,” he said. “Maybe he'll buy.”

Here are the 2012 Juno nominees, for the prizes handed out April 1 in Ottawa, arranged here in roughly descending order of general interest:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Avril Lavigne, Goodbye Lullaby

Drake, Take Care

Justin Bieber, Under the Mistletoe

Michael Bublé, Christmas

Nickelback, Here And Now

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
City and Colour
Deadmau5
Drake
Feist
Michael Bublé
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
City and Colour, “Fragile Bird”
The Sheepdogs, “I Don’t Know”
Hedley, “Invincible”
Johnny Reid, “Let’s Go Higher”
Nickelback, “When We Stand Together”
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Arkells
Down With Webster
Hedley
Nickelback
Sam Roberts Band
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Alyssa Reid
Dan Mangan
Diamond Rings
JRDN
Lindi Ortega
NEW GROUP OF THE YEAR
Braids
Hey Rosetta!
Mother Mother
The Rural Alberta Advantage
The Sheepdogs
JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD
Arcade Fire
Avril Lavigne
City and Colour
Deadmau5
Drake
Ginette Reno
Hedley
Justin Bieber
Michael Bublé
Nickelback
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Dallas Green
Dan Mangan:
Feist
Jim Cuddy
Ron Sexsmith
ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Cuff The Duke, Morning Comes

Feist, Metals

Jenn Grant, Honeymoon Punch

Jim Cuddy, Skyscraper Soul

Ron Sexsmith, Long Player Late Bloomer

ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Braids, Native Speaker

Dan Mangan, Oh Fortune

Destroyer, Kaputt

F--ked Up, David Comes To Life

Timber Timbre, Creep On Creepin’ On

POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Avril Lavigne, Goodbye Lullaby

Down With Webster, Time To Win Vol. II

Hedley, Storms

Lights, Siberia

Marianas Trench, Ever After

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Arkells, Michigan Left

Matthew Good, Lights of Endangered Species

Sam Roberts Band, Collider

Sloan, The Double Cross

The Sheepdogs, Learn & Burn

RAP RECORDING OF THE YEAR

Classified, Handshakes and Middle Fingers

D-Sisive, Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye

Drake, Take Care

Kardinal Offishall, Anywhere (Ol’ Time Killin’ Part.2)

Swollen Members, Daggermouth

DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Anjulie, “Brand New Chick”
Deadmau5, “Aural Psynapse”
Duck Sauce, “Barbara Streisand”
Martin Solveig & Dragonette, “Hello’
Mia Martina, “Devotion”
COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Doc Walker, 16 & 1

High Valley, High Valley

Jason McCoy, Everything

Jimmy Rankin, Forget About the World

Terri Clark, Roots and Wings

R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR

JRDN, IAMJRDN

Jully Black, “Set it Off feat. Kardinal Offishall
Karl Wolf, “Ghetto Love” feat. Kardinal Offishall
Melanie Fiona, “Gone And Never Coming Back”
Robin Thicke, “Pretty Lil’ Heart” feat. Lil Wayne
REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR

Dubmatix, Seeds of Love & Life feat. Luciano

Exco Levi, Bleaching Shop

Jay Douglas, Lover’s Paradise

Steele, Woman

Tanya Mullings, Rescue Me

ROOTS & TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO

Bruce Cockburn, Small Source of Comfort

Craig Cardiff, Floods & Fires

Dave Gunning, A Tribute To John Allan Cameron

David Francey, Late Edition

Lindi Ortega, Little Red Boots

ROOTS & TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: GROUP

Good Lovelies, Let The Rain Fall

The Deep Dark Woods, The Place I Left Behind

The Once, Row Upon Row Of The People We Know

The Wailin’ Jennys, Bright Morning Stars

Twilight Hotel, When The Wolves Go Blind

ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Arthur Oskan, A Little More Than Everything

Austra, Feel It Break

Azari & III, Azari & III

Junior Boys, It’s All True

Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972

METAL/HARD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Anvil Juggernaut of Justice

Cauldron, Burning Fortune

Devin Townsend Project, Deconstruction

Fuck The Facts, Die Miserable

KEN mode, Venerable

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Bob Rock
Brian Howes
David Foster
k.d. lang
Noah “40” Shebib
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Jon Busby for Dan Mangan’s “Rows of Houses”
Jose Lourenco for Rural Alberta Advantage’s“Stamp”
Michael Maxxis for Hollerado’s “Good Day At The Races”
John JP Poliquin for Mother Mother’s “The Stand”
Mike Roberts for the Sadies’ “Rumbleseat”
MUSIC DVD OF THE YEAR

Feist: Look At What The Light Did Now

Tegan and Sara: Get Along

Rush: Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland

Peter Katz: Peter Katz Live At The Music Gallery

David Francey: Burning Bright

RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
Chris Shreenan-Dyck
David Travers-Smith
George Seara
Jeff Wolpert
Michael Phillip Wojewoda
RECORDING PACKAGE OF THE YEAR

12, Dinah Thorpe

Creep On Creepin’ On, Timber Timbre

Get Yourself Home, Laura Repo

Metals, Feist

Rest of the Story, Chris Tarrry

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Downhere, On The Altar of Love

Hawk Nelson, Crazy Love

Jon Bauer, Forevermore

Kellie Loder, Imperfections & Directions

Sky Terminal, Don’t Close Your Eyes

WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Aboulaye Kone et Bolo Kan, Afo Gné

Aline Morales, Flores, Tambores e Amores

Azam Ali, From Night To The Edge Of Day

Kiran Ahluwalia, Aam Zameen : common ground

Socalled, Sleepover

BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Bill Johnson, Still Blue

David Gogo, Soul Bender

Harrison Kennedy, Shame The Devil

MonkeyJunk, To Behold

Suzie Vinnick, Me ‘n’ Mabel

VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Diana Panton, To Brazil With Love

Fern Lindzon, Two Kites

Sonia Johnson, Le carré de nos amours

Sophie Milman, In The Moonlight

The Nylons, Skin Tight

CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Chris Tarry, Rest of the Story

Colin Stetson, New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

François Bourassa Quartet, Idiosyncrasie

Hilario Duran & Jane Bunnett, Cuban Rhapsody

Phil Dwyer Orchestra feat. Mark Fewer, Changing Seasons

TRADITIONAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Dave Young Quintet, Aspects of Oscar

David Braid, Verge

Kirk MacDonald Orchestra, Deep Shadows

Mike Murley Septet, Still Rollin’

Oliver Jones, Live In Baden

ABORIGINAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Bruthers of Different Muthers, Speakers of Tomorrow

Donny Parenteau, To Whom It May Concern

Flying Down Thunder and Rise Ashen, One Nation

Murray Porter, Songs Lived & Life Played

Randy Wood, The Gift of Life

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Andrew Collins, Cats & Dogs

Colin Stetson, New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

L’Orkestre des Pas Perdus, L’Âge du cuivre

MAZ, Télescope

Stretch Orchestra, Stretch Orchestra

FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Catherine Major, Le désert des solitudes

Coeur de Pirate, Blonde

Fred Pellerin Disques Tempête, C’est un monde

Jérôme Minière, Le vrai le faux

Malajube, La caverne

CHILDREN'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Bobs & Lolo, Connecting the Dots

Charlie Hope Songs, Stories and Friends: Let’s Go Play!

Eddie Douglas, Sleepy Sky Lullaby

Music with BRIAN, Everyone

Vocal Paint, My Butterfly/A Capella Lullabies

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Canadian Brass, Brahms On Brass

Louis Lortie, Louis Lortie Plays Liszt

Marc-André Hamelin, Liszt Piano Sonata

New Orford String Quartet, Schubert & Beethoven

Susan Hoeppner, American Flute Masterpieces

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: LARGE ENSEMBLE OR SOLOIST(S) WITH LARGE ENSEMBLE ACCOMPANIMENT

Alexandre Da Costa/Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Daugherty: Fire and Blood

James Ehnes, Bartók Voilin Concertos

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Vivaldi Cello Concertos

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre Métropolitain, Bruckner 4

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre Métropolitain, Florent Schmidt- La tragédie de salomé

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE

Jane Archibald; Orchestre Symphonique Bienne; Thomas Rösner, Haydn Arias

Karina Gauvin - Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Handel: Streams of Pleasure

Le Nouvel Opéra, Caldara : La Conversione di Clodoveo

Marie-Josée Lord; Orchestre Métropolitain; Giuseppe Pietraroia, Marie-Josée Lord

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Daniel Taylor, J.S. Bach: Cantatas 70 & 154; Concerto 1060; Orchestral Suite No. 2

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR

Ann Southam, Glass Houses #5

Derek Charke, Sepia Fragments

Heather Schmidt, Piano Concerto No. 2

Jacques Hétu, String Quartet No. 2

Jeffrey Ryan, Fugitive Colours

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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