The Canadian Folk Music Awards today announced the nominees for the 2023 awards, which will be handed out in Vancouver between March 31 and April 2 next year.

Here’s the full list.  Congratulations to all!

 Children’s Album of the Year

• Folk For Little Folk Volume 1 – Gordie Crazylegs MacKeeman
• Ponderosa Bunchgrass and the Golden Rule – The Oot n’ Oots
• The Full Circle – The Relative Minors
• Tuba Blues – My Friend Christopher
• Ça suffit pour s’amuser – Hannah Shira Naiman

Contemporary Album of the Year

• Cerulean – Ken Yates
• Down-Home – Kyle McKearney
• eleven – Madison Violet
• Hurricane Coming – Shawna Caspi
• Long Haul – John Wort Hannam
• Sanctuary – Sultans of String
• Tongues – Tanya Tagaq
• Zhawenim – Digging Roots

Contemporary Singer of the Year

• Angelique Francis (Long River)
• Barney Bentall (Cosmic Dreamer)
• Boy Golden (Church of Better Daze)
• Ken Yates (Cerulean)
• Kyle McKearney (Down-Home)

English Songwriter(s) 

• Abigail Lapell (Stolen Time)
• Andrew McClelland aka Li’l Andy (The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter (1925-1930)
• John Wort Hannam (Long Haul)
• Matt Patershuk (An Honest Effort)
• Tim Buckley (Frame by Frame)
• Yael Wand (Saltwater Heartwood)

Ensemble  of the Year

• Over The Moon (Chinook Waltz)
• The Dead South (Easy Listening For Jerks – Part 1)
• The Fretless (Open House)
• The McDades (The Empress)
• The Slocan Ramblers (Up the Hill and Through the Fog)

French Songwriter(s) of the Year

• Anik Bérubé & Natalie Byrns (Les ébranlements)
• Geneviève Roberge-Bouchard & Alain Barbeau (J’attends encore)
• Héra Ménard & Guylaine Saint-Pierre (Fleurs)
• Matt Stern (Rien qu’un animal)
• Sébastien Lacombe (Le chemin des possibles)

Global Roots Album of the Year

• III – Ayrad
• Sanctuary– Sultans of String
• Thieves of Dreams Zlod?ji sn? – Lenka Lichtenberg
• Tradisyon – Wesli Louissaint
• Until When – Jaffa Road

Indigenous Songwriter(s) of the Year

• Adrian Sutherland (When The Magic Hits)
• Amanda Rheaume (The Spaces In Between)
• Berk Jodoin (Half Breed)
• Kyle McKearney (Down-Home)
• ShoShona Kish & Raven Kanatakta Polson-Lahache (Zhawenim)

Instrumental Group of the Year

• Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves (Hurricane Clarice)
• Proulx-Demers (Il fera beau demain)
• RanchWriters (RanchWriters)
• Shannon Quinn & Tony Quinn (20 Summers)
• The McDades (The Empress)

Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year

• Ellen Gibling (The Bend in the Light)
• John Reischman (New Time & Old Acoustic)
• Kerry Fitzgerald (Bitz & Beatz)
• Mike Stevens (Breathe In The World Breathe Out Music)
• Waymzy (Inchoate)

New/Emerging Artist(s) of the Year

• Alex Krawczyk (Le Olam)
• Andrew Waite (Andrew Waite)
• Camie (troubadour)
• Cheval (Singer Songwrecker)
• RedFox (Stranger Love)
• Tennyson King (Good Company)

Oliver Schroer Pushing the Boundaries Award

• Flash de mémoire – Mélisande [électrotrad]
• Sanctuary – Sultans of String
• Thieves of Dreams  Zlod?ji sn? – Lenka Lichtenberg
• Transcestral – Oktoécho
• Zhawenim – Digging Roots

Producer(s) of the Year

• Brenley MacEachern & Lisa MacIsaac (eleven – Madison Violet)
• Chris McKhool & John ‘Beetle’ Bailey (Sanctuary – Sultans of String)
• Corwin Fox & Yael Wand (Saltwater Heartwood – Yael Wand)
• Katia Makdissi-Warren (Transcestral – Oktoécho)
• The Fretless & Joby Baker (Open House – The Fretless)

Single of the Year

• “100 Proof” – Julian Taylor
• “À travers mes yeux” – Geneviève et Alain
• “Familiar Feeling” – Pretty Archie
• “Heavy Heart” – Fortunate Ones
• “Hey Boys Sing Us A Song” – The Irish Rovers
• “Love you the Best” – Quote the Raven
• “Sing Me A Song” – William Prince and Serena Ryder
• “Sweet Desperado” – Madison Violet
• “Teeth Agape” – Tanya Tagaq

Solo Artist of the Year

• Barney Bentall (Cosmic Dreamer)
• James Keelaghan (Second-Hand)
• Jocelyn Pettit (Wind Rose)
• John Wort Hannam (Long Haul)
• Suzie Ungerleider (My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider)

Traditional Album of the Year

• 20 printemps – Le Vent Du Nord
• 20 Summers – Shannon Quinn & Tony Quinn
• Hurricane Clarice – Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
• Long Time Travelling – Ken Whiteley
• Up the Hill and Through the Fog – The Slocan Ramblers

Traditional Singer of the Year

• Kim Beggs (Steel and Wool)
• Li’l Andy (The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter (1925-1930))
• Lizzy Hoyt (The Parting Glass)
• Michael Darcy (Down to the Roots
• Mike Bravener (Have You Ever Heard The Story?)

Vocal Group of the Year

• Le Vent Du Nord (20 printemps)
• Les Rats d’Swompe (Elixir)
• Mama’s Broke (Narrow Line)
• Quote the Raven (Can’t Hold the Light)
• The McDades (The Empress)

Young Performer(s) of the Year

• Fiddelium (Fiddelium)
• Paige Penney (Fingers Crossed)
• The Fiddlaires (Fiddletainment)
• The Oot n’ Oots (Ponderosa Bunchgrass and the Golden Rule)
• The Receivers (The Receivers)

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