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2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards
The 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards were held on December 10, 2006, at the Myer Horowitz Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Nominees and recipients Recipients are listed first and highlighted in boldface. References External linksCanadian Folk Music Awards {{Canadian Folk Music Awards 02 Canadian Folk Music Awards Canadian Folk Music Awards Canadian Folk Music Awards Canadian Folk Music Awards The Canadian Folk Music Awards are an annual music awards ceremony presenting awards in a variety of categories for achievements in both traditional and contemporary folk music, and other roots music genres, by Canadian musicians. The awards pr ... 2000s in Edmonton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Kaldor
Connie Isabelle Kaldor, (born 9 May 1953) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is the recipient of three Juno awards. Early life and education Kaldor was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. She graduated from Campbell Collegiate in Regina in 1972 and the University of Alberta in 1976 with a BFA degree in theatre. Career Kaldor performed with various theatre groups, including Theatre Passe Muraille, The Mummers and 25th Street House Theatre, until 1979, when she gave it up to start a full-time music career. In 1981, she founded her own independent record label, Coyote Entertainment, and has released eighteen albums. Part of the Canadian Wave, Connie has performed alongside talents such as Stan Rogers, Ferron, and Valdy, and contributed to a newly emerging and distinctly Canadian sound. In the early 1980s, Kaldor opened for Stan Rogers in a tour across the United States and the two musicians played the Canadian Workshop together at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas in June 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Byrnes (musician)
James Thomas Kevin Byrnes www.filmreference.com. (born September 22, 1948) is an American and . Life and career Byrnes was born in , on September 22, 1948. His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a municipal accoun ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dala (band)
Dala is a Canadians, Canadian Acoustic music, acoustic-Folk music, folk two-piece musical group, made up by Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther, both of Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario. Early history (2002-2005) Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther first met at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School, at a high school band practice. Quickly afterwards, Carabine and Walther's friendship blossomed and they formed ''Dala'' in the summer of 2002. Their "innate understanding of music" and "vocal range" helped propel them towards signing a five-year artist development deal with Big Bold Sun Music on December 12, 2003, and on April 3, 2005, Dala released their first album, ''This Moment Is a Flash''. Universal Music then indie labels (2005-present) On August 8, 2005, Dala signed its first major record deal with Universal Music. Soon thereafter, on November 1, the band released its first major album, ''Angels & Thieves'', containing five original songs and five covers. Immediately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Freed
Donald Freed (born 1949 in New Westminster) is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known for his works about life on the prairies of western-Canada and the province of Saskatchewan in particular. Life and career Don Freed was born of Métis descent in New Westminster, British Columbia, and raised in Saskatoon."Canada's Children Find their Voices" ''Billboard'', August 12, 2000, page 77. Beginning his musical career in 1966, he appeared with in the 1969 documentary '' Johnny Cash! The Man, His World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Vinson
Laura Vinson (born May 23, 1947) is a Canadian folk and country singer-songwriter.Laura Vinson '''', July 29, 2007. Prominent in the 1970s and 1980s as a mainstream country performer, in recent years she has concentrated primarily on recording and performing and music. Biography She is of |
Art Napoleon
Art Napoleon is a former chief of the Saulteau First Nation, from Victoria, British Columbia. He has used his television shows, music, and books to provide education on and increase awareness of Indigenous foods, languages, and cultures. He is co-host of the popular cooking show, "''Moosemeat & Marmalade''", and has appeared in other programs that promote and support Indigenous languages and cultures. Napoleon has also recorded several award-winning music albums. Early life Art Napoleon was born in the Saulteau First Nation on Moberly Lake, British Columbia, in 1961. His mother died when he was a baby. As such, he was raised by his grandparents, who taught him to speak Cree, hunt, and fish. He credits his grandmother and aunt with teaching him how to cook. Napoleon began working as a bush cook at the age of fifteen. He attended the University of Victoria, where he graduated with a Masters of Arts degree in Indigenous Language Revitalization. Career Activism and politics Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digging Roots
Digging Roots is a Canadian musical group consisting of husband and wife duo Raven Kanatakta and ShoShona Kish, whose musical style blends folk-rock, pop, blues, and hip hop."A Tribe Called Red, Wab Kinew, Tanya Tagaq on the indigenous music renaissance" , August 18, 2014. They won the in 2010 for their album ''We Are...''. Kanatakta is originally from |
Wayne Lavallee
Wayne Lavallee is a Métis actor and singer-songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He began his career with Vancouver's Spiritsong indigenous theatre company in 1990. His stage roles have included productions of Drew Hayden Taylor's ''alterNatives'' and ''The BuzGem Blues''. Concurrently with his acting career he also performed as a musician in the Vancouver area, later releasing the album ''Green Dress'' in 2004. The album won the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for album of the year in 2004, was a Juno Award nominee for Aboriginal Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2005, and won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year at the 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2006. His followup album ''Trail of Tears'', released in 2009, won the awards for Best Male Artist, Best Rock Album and Best Acoustic Folk Album at the 2010 Aboriginal Music Awards, was a Juno nominee for Aboriginal Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2010, and a Canadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romi Mayes
{{Infobox musical artist , name = Romi Mayes , image = , image_upright = , image_size = , landscape = , alt = , caption = , background = solo_singer , birth_name = , alias = , birth_date = 1975 , birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada , origin = , death_date = , death_place = , genre = {{hlist, Roots music, blues, music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ... , occupation = Singer, songwriter, Producer , instrument = , years_active = , label = , associated_acts = , website = Romi Mayes is a Canadian roots and blues guitarist and a singer songwriter starting in the 1990s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The McDades
The McDades are a Canadian folk band made up of siblings Shannon Johnson (violin and vocals), Solon McDade (bass and vocals), and Jeremiah McDade (multi-instrumentalist and vocals). The McDades were performers at an early age, playing folk music with their parents, Terry and Danielle McDade, in the McDade Family Band from 1974–1994. The siblings performed at the Canadian National Exhibition, the Commonwealth Games, and for the British Royal Family. They formed the McDades in 2000. In 2012 they were the subject of the documentary ''The McDades - Brother Brother Sister Making Music''. Discography * ''The Empress'' (Free Radio Records, Nov 12, 2021) * ''Bloom'' (Free Radio, 2006) – 2007 Juno Award Winner - Best Roots/Traditional Album (group), 2007 Independent Music Award Winner - Best World Album Traditional, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Dawson (Canadian Musician)
Steve Dawson is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and music producer. Dawson has produced albums by Jim Byrnes, Kelly Joe Phelps, Old Man Luedecke, The Sojourners, and The Deep Dark Woods. He has won two Juno Awards. He frequently collaborates with keyboardist Chris Gestrin, bassist Keith Lowe and drummer Georr Hicks. He has been a member of the duo Zubot & Dawson, and of the group The Great Uncles of the Revolution. Career In 2001, Dawson came together with Jesse Zubot, Kevin Turcotte, and Andrew Downing to release an album, ''Great Uncles of the Revolution Stand Up!'', which won a Western Music Award. In 2002, The Great Uncles of the Revolution performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and were presented with the Grand Prix de Jazz de Montreal. Dawson also won the Independent Canadian Music Award for Roots Album Of The Year twice, in 2000 and 2002. Dawson continued to perform with the Great Uncles and with the duo Zubot & Dawson, who won a 2003 Juno Award for Roots/Traditional G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Schroer
Oliver Schroer (June 18, 1956 – July 3, 2008) was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer. Early life Oliver Schroer grew up in Vandeleur, Ontario, a small farming community near Markdale in rural Grey County. He attended Grey Highlands Secondary School in Flesherton, where he played French horn in the school band. He also took private violin lessons. He graduated in 1974, having earned several academic awards. Schroer was dissatisfied with university life, and began to busk in Toronto, playing guitar in the Toronto subway. After several years, he picked up his violin again, but to play fiddle rather than classical music. Eventually, he began to record, and in 1993 released his first album, ''Jigzup'', which was nominated for a Juno Award in the ''Best Roots or Traditional Album'' category. Recording career Schroer was a prolific composer, recording ten CDs in 14 years. He performed in Europe and North America in clubs, cathedrals, and New York's Lincoln Center. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
