And here are the winners for the seventh annual Canadian Folk Music Awards held this year at Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre on Sunday, December 4th. Winners are denoted by being underlined, while the artists in boldface are the ones with significant connections to Toronto ...
2011 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARD WINNERS
TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Dave Gunning - a tribute to John Allan Cameron
Finest Kind - For Honour & For Gain
De Temps Antan - Les Habits de Papier
La Volée d’Castors - Le Retour
Genticorum - Nagez Rameurs
CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Twilight Hotel - When the Wolves Go Blind
Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer - Nouvelles fréquentations
Lynn Miles - Fall for Beauty
Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort
Good Lovelies - Let The Rain Fall
CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Kathy Reid-Naiman - I Love to Hear the Sounds ...(Aurora)
Benoît Archambault - Les pourquoi
Marky Weinstock - Songs For Dreamers
Colleen Power with Crooked Stovepipe - For Little Ones
Will Stroet - Walk ‘n’ Roll
TRADITIONAL SINGER OF THE YEAR
Enoch Kent - Take A Trip With Me
Dave Gunning - a tribute to John Allan Cameron
Lizzy Hoyt - Home
Eileen McGann - Pocketful Of Rhymes
Joel Fafard - Cluck Old Hen
CONTEMPORARY SINGER OF THE YEAR
David Myles - Live at the Carleton
Suzie Vinnick - Me ‘n’ Mabel
Cat Jahnke - The Stories are Taking Their Toll
Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort
Matthew Barber - Matthew Barber
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Jayme Stone - Room of Wonders
Jaron Freeman-Fox - Manic Almanac : Slow Möbius
Anne Lindsay - Hurry On Home
April Verch - That’s How We Run
Don Ross - Breakfast for Dogs (was TO- based for years and now in Halifax)
INSTRUMENTAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Creaking Tree String Quartet - Sundogs
Qristina & Quinn Bachand - Family
MAZ - Télescope
Eh?! - Eh?!
RAZ-DE-MARÉE/TIDAL WAVE - Marche du St-Laurent
VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
Finest Kind - For Honour & For Gain
Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer - Nouvelles fréquentations
The Wailin’ Jennys - Bright Morning Stars
Good Lovelies - Let The Rain Fall
Genticorum - Nagez Rameurs
ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR
The Creaking Tree String Quartet - Sundogs
MAZ - Télescope
The Wailin’ Jennys - Bright Morning Stars
Harry Manx & Kevin Breit - Strictly Whatever
Genticorum - Nagez Rameurs
SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Ken Whiteley - Another Day’s Journey
Mae Moore - Folklore
David Francey - Late Edition
Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort
Ruth Moody - The Garden
ENGLISH SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Ron Hynes - Stealing Genius
David Francey - Late Edition
Mae Moore - Folklore
Lynn Miles - Fall for Beauty
Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort
FRENCH SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Jean-François Lessard - Jean-François Lessard
Alexandre Poulin - Une lumière allumée
Claude Cormier - Acoustique
Les Surveillantes - La racine carrée du coeur
ABORIGINAL SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Vince Fontaine - Songs For Turtle Island
Robert Davidson & Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson - New Journeys
janet panic - Samples
Don Amero - The Long Way Home
Kristi Lane Sinclair - I Love You
WORLD ARTIST OF THE YEAR - SOLO
Lenka Lichtenberg - Fray
Massiel Yanira - Una Voz
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson - New Journeys
Zekuhl - I BOLO
Kiran Ahluwalia - aam zameen : common ground (Markham)
WORLD ARTIST OF THE YEAR - GROUP
Ouzo Power - Greatest Hits (Volume 1)
Nizar Tabcharani & The Backstrings - Bayati Ana
Trio Bembe - Oh My Soul
MAZ - Télescope
Minor Empire - Second Nature
NEW/EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Dave Gunning - a tribute to John Allan Cameron
Andrea Ramolo - The Shadows and the Cracks
Ruth Moody - The Garden
Ashley Condon - Come In From The Cold
Joe Nolan - Goodbye Cinderella
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Dave Gunning w/ Allie Bennett & John Meir - a tribute to John Allan Cameron (Dave Gunning)
Paul Mills - Stealing Genius (Ron Hynes)
Steve Bell, Dave Zeglinski, Murray Pulver - Kindness (Steve Bell)
David Travers-Smith - Soon The Birds (Oh Susanna)
Mark Howard, David Travers-Smith - Bright Morning Stars (The Wailin’ Jennys)
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
New Country Rehab - New Country Rehab
Twilight Hotel - When the Wolves Go Blind
Jaron Freeman-Fox - Manic Almanac : Slow Möbius
Ruth Moody - The Garden
Evalyn Parry - SPIN
Geoff Berner - Victory Party
YOUNG PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Qristina & Quinn Bachand - Family
Olivia Korkola - Playing in Traffic
Rebecca Lappa - Not in Neverland
Molly Thomason - Beauty Queen
The Doll Sisters - The Road - EP