The eleventh annual Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards (CAMA) were held in Hamilton, Ontario on Friday, November 27, 2009. The evening was marked by the incredible Buffy Sainte-Marie’s four awards, including Best Album, Best Single, Best Female Artist, Best Songwriter. Frankly, given how many higher-profile Canadian artists tend to eschew other non-Juno award ceremonies, Buffy’s presence, [...]
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Amid the melee at the Canadian Folk Music Awards at Dominion-Chalmers Church in Ottawa last weekend, we managed to get a couple of candid snapshots of the event. Watch this space for more soon! Brenley MacEachern and her partner Lisa McIsaac of Madison Violet bagged Canadian Folk Music Awards for Best Vocal Group. Paul Mills [...]
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We had the rare and exclusive pleasure of hanging out in the green room at the 2009 CFMA (Canadian Folk Music Awards) presentation on Saturday, November 21st in our Nation’s Capital. So while others tuned, tested and tweaked their fiddles, noshed on sandwiches and caught up on life on the road, we chatted with the [...]
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Tonight was my first Canadian Folk Music Awards and definitely not my last. The organizers who pour their hearts and souls into staging this event deserve to be congratulated for their work – anyone who’s ever organized anything of this size knows what it takes to make it happen, and happen it did. Performance highlights [...]
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Gordon Lightfoot turned 71 today, just before heading into a long home stand at Massey Hall. What better time to launch this Roots Music Canada blog? Where Lightfoot led, we follow, proudly. We’ll miss the shows – some of us will be off to the CFMAs in Ottawa, others to a meeting of the board [...]
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