Canadian Folk Music Award Winners

The Seventh Annual Canadian Folk Music Awards took place tonight at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto.

The awards went to:

VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR

Good Lovelies - Let The Rain Fall

 

INSTRUMENTAL GROUP OF THE YEAR

The Creaking Tree String Quartet - Sundogs

CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Benoît Archambault - Les pourquoi 

 

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

Mark Howard, David Travers-Smith - Bright Morning Stars (The Wailin' Jennys)

INSTRUMENTAL SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Jayme Stone - Room of Wonders

SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort

ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR

Genticorum - Nagez Rameurs

WORLD ARTIST OF THE YEAR - SOLO

Kiran Ahluwalia - aam zameen : common ground

CONTEMPORARY SINGER OF THE YEAR

Suzie Vinnick - Me 'n' Mabel

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

Geoff Berner - Victory Party

ABORIGINAL SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

Vince Fontaine - Songs For Turtle Island

AUTEUR-COMPOSITEUR FRANCOPHONE DE L’ANNÉE

Alexandre Poulin - Une lumière allumée

ENGLISH SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

Lynn Miles - Fall for Beauty 

 

YOUNG PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

Molly Thomason - Beauty Queen

UNSUNG HERO

Jane Harbury 

TRADITIONAL SINGER OF THE YEAR

Dave Gunning – a tribute to John Allan Cameron

NEW/EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Dave Gunning - a tribute to John Allan Cameron

WORLD ARTIST OF THE YEAR – GROUP

Minor Empire - Second Nature

TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Genticorum - Nagez Rameurs

CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort

Congratulations to all the nominees and recipients, to the Canadian Folk Music Awards organizers, and to Andy Frank and David Newland of Rootsmusic.ca for the webcast.

--Mike Regenstreif