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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

CFMA's 2017 ~ Detailed List Of Recipients


All photography by Leonard Poole

 OTTAWA, Saturday, November 18, 2017 – Canadian Folk Music Awards (#CFMA2017) were awarded during the first evening of celebrations at the Bronson Centre in Ottawa. The 13th anniversary event was hosted by musicians pictured above, Jean Hewson and Benoit Bourque (La Bottine Souriante) in a bilingual evening filled with music including performances by 2017 nominees MAZTwin FlamesBeyond The PaleBEYRIESKobo Town and Danny Michel. Ten awards were handed out throughout evening. 

 Danny Michel was honoured twice during the evening for his latest album Khlebnikov 
which received the Oliver Schroer Pushing The Boundaries Award. He was also awarded the 
Producer of the Year Award along with his collaborator Rob Carli. Khlebnikov takes its album name from the Kapitan Khlebnikov, the Russian icebreaker vessel that inspired the music and where he recorded the album’s songs during an arctic expedition. The album also features arrangements by composer Rob Carli as well as performances from Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield

The Slaight Music Unsung Hero Award was also given out this evening to Newfoundland’s much-loved Gerry Strong for his incredible contributions to the folk music scene.
Sunday, November 19, 2017 – Canadian Folk Music Awards were awarded during the second evening of celebrations at the Bronson Centre in Ottawa. The 13th anniversary event was hosted by musicians Jean Hewson and Benoit Bourque (La Bottine Souriante) in a bilingual evening filled with music including performances by 2017 nominees Cassie and MaggieBraden GatesCoco MélièsScott MacMillan & Colin GrantOh Susanna and Stephen Fearing. Ten awards were handed out throughout evening. 

London, Ontario songwriter and Berklee graduate Ken Yates was awarded his second Canadian Folk Music Awards of the weekend for New/Emerging Artist of the Year for his captivating and moving heart-on-his-sleeve album Huntsville. (His previous accolade was handed out on Saturday evening for English Songwriter of the Year.)
The dynamic performers Moscow Apartment, right, were awarded Young Performers of the Year for their album DemoAndré Brunet took home Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year for his fiddling album La grosse maison rouge. The East Coast’s Scott MacMillan & Colin Grant teamed up for success with their guitar and fiddle collaboration Good2Go, receiving Instrumental Group of the Year.

Drawing freely from folk-roots, indie music traditions and punk rock, Toronto’s Abigail Lapell’s Hide Nor Hair achieved Contemporary Album of the YearLouis Simão (left) brought listeners on a journey through the sounds of his Portuguese-speaking world, receiving the award for his album A Luz (A Light) for World Solo Album of the Year. Sisters Cassie and Maggie received Traditional Album of the Year for their Celtic roots album The Willow Collection.

Montreal’s Coco Méliès‘ (pronounced Coco May-lee-ess) luminous and refined folk album The Riddle received Vocal Album of the YearHannah Shira Naiman, on the rightis the Traditional Singer of the Year for her old time album Know The Mountain.
Powerful duo Mama’s Broke from Halifax, who pull from old-time, Québécois, blues, Celtic, Balkan and (even) doom metal, were honoured with Ensemble of the Year for their album Count The Wicked.

Established by Canada’s burgeoning and internationally recognized folk music community, the Canadian Folk Music Awards is currently its 13th year. The two nights of celebrations of the Canadian Folk Music Awards wrapped up with a open-hearted singalong with the full audience.  For more information, visit folkawards.ca.

List of Winners: Danny Michel x2, Fred Penner, Stephen Fearing, Leeroy Stagger, Luc de Larochellière, Ken Yates x2, Twin Flames, Kobo Town, Moscow Apartment, André Brunet, Scott MacMillan & Colin Grant, Abigail Lapell, Louis Simão, Cassie and Maggie, Coco Méliès, Hannah Shira Naiman, Mama’s Broke, 

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