The Canadian Folk Music Awards Nominees for 2015 Have Just Been Announced.

The year's most important annual event for roots / trad and new / rad music in Canada has just kicked off today.

This year's ceremony, at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre on November 8, will be hosted by 

Connie Kaldor and Benoit Bourque. You will be hearing much of this music on Corby's Orbit over the next two months. 

Music in rose text has been programmed already. I am gathering more, currently, and I'm ready to share.

Young Performer of the Year:

Robbie Bankes - Through February Snow

Coastline - Coastline

Rebecca Lappa - Tattered Rose

Mira Meikle - MIRA

Benjamin Dakota Rogers - Strong Man's Address to the Circus Crowd

New/Emerging Artist of the Year:

Crooked Brothers - Thank You I'm Sorry

Fortunate Ones - The Bliss

The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer - A Real Fine Mess

The River and the Road - Headlights

The Young Novelists - made us strangers

Oliver Schroer Pushing the Boundaries Award:

Kevin Breit - Ernesto and Delilah

The Jerry Cans- Aakuluk

The Shoeless - The Shoeless
Dana Sipos - Roll Up the Night Sky

Whitehorse - Leave No Bridge Unburned

  

English Songwriter of the Year:

Catherine Allan and Andrew James O'Brien - The Bliss (Fortunate Ones)

Jon Brooks - The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside (Jon Brooks)

Amelia Curran - They Promised You Mercy (Amelia Curran)

Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland - Leave No Bridge Unburned (Whitehorse)

Jenn Grant - Compostela (Jenn Grant)

French Songwriter of the Year:

Jocelyne Baribeau - Entre toi et moi (Jocelyne Baribeau)

Louis-Jean Cormier -  Les grandes artères (Louis-Jean Cormier)

Benoit Pinette - Panorama (Tire le Coyote)

Dany Placard - Santa Maria (Dany Placard)

Geneviève Toupin - Willows (Willows)

The Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year:

Miranda Currie - Up in the Air (Miranda Currie)

The Jerry Cans - Aakuluk (The Jerry Cans)

Raven Kanatakta and ShoShona Kish - For the Light (Digging Roots)

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Power in the Blood (Buffy Sainte-Marie)

Laura Vinson and Free Spirit - Warrior (Laura Vinson and Free Spirit)

World Group of the Year:

Ayrad - Ayrad

Alex Cuba - Healer

Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Moorka

Monsoon - Mandala

Ventanas- Arrelumbre

World Solo Artist of the Year:
  
Kiran Ahluwalia - Sanata: Stillness
Jean-François Bélanger - Les vents orfèvres
Elage - Diame
Emmanuel Jal - The Key
Wagner Petrilli - Confissão
   

Traditional Album of the Year:

Matthew Byrne - Hearts & Heroes

Le Vent du Nord - Têtu

Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy - ONE

Pharis & Jason Romero - A Wanderer I'll Stay

Jayme Stone - Jayme Stone's Lomax Project

  

Traditional Singer of the Year:

Michael Jerome Browne - Sliding Delta

Matthew Byrne - Hearts & Heroes

Tamar Ilana - Arrelumbre by Ventanas

Annie Lou - Tried and True

Pharis Romero - A Wanderer I'll Stay (Pharis and Jason Romero)

Contemporary Album of the Year:

Jon Brooks - The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside

Jenn Grant - Compostela

Catherine MacLellan - The Raven's Sun

The Once - Departures

Gabrielle Papillon - The Tempest of Old

  

Contemporary Singer of the Year:

Amelia Curran - They Promised You Mercy

Peter Katz - We Are the Reckoning

Sarah MacDougall - Grand Canyon

Catherine MacLellan - The Raven's Sun

Jory Nash - The Many Hats of Jory Nash

Instrumental Group of the Year:

Coastline - Coastline

Shane Cook and Jake Charron - Head to Head

Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Moorka

Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy - ONE

Monsoon - Mandala

Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year:

Jean-François Bélanger - Les vents orfèvres

Adrianna Ciccone - The Back of Winter

Nick Hornbuckle - 12x2(+/-1)

Patti Kusturok - Milestone

Wendy MacIsaac -  Off the Floor

Vocal Group of the Year:

Fortunate Ones - The Bliss

Good Lovelies - Burn The Plan

The Lucky Sisters - So Lucky

Pharis & Jason Romero - A Wanderer I'll Stay

The Young Novelists - made us strangers

Ensemble of the Year:

Big Little Lions - A Little Frayed, a Little Torn

The Once - Departures

Jayme Stone - Jayme Stone's Lomax Project

The Sweet Lowdown - Chasing the Sun

Whitehorse - Leave No Bridge Unburned  

Solo Artist of the Year:

Michael Jerome Browne - Sliding Delta

Amelia Curran - They Promised You Mercy

Lizzy Hoyt - New Lady on the Prairie

Catherine MacLellan - The Raven's Sun

Oh Susanna - Namedropper

Children's Album of the Year:

Ginalina - Forest Friends' Nature Club Album

Henri Godon - La vie rêvée!

Hilary Grist - Tomorrow is a Chance to Start Over

Stella Swanson - I'm Not a Bunny

The Swinging Belles - More Sheep, Less Sleep

Producer of the Year:

Daniel Ledwell - Compostela (Jenn Grant)

Jory Nash, Chris Stringer - The Many Hats of Jory Nash (Jory Nash)

Les Cooper - Burn The Plan (Good Lovelies)

Murray Pulver, Dave Zeglinski, Steve Bell - Pilgrimage (Steve Bell)

Pharis & Jason Romero, David Travers-Smith - A Wanderer I'll Stay (Pharis & Jason Romero)