3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards

3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards
Date	December 1, 2007
Location	Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec
Country	Canada
Host	Shelagh Rogers Benoit Bourque
Official website	folkawards.ca

The 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards were held on December 1, 2007, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec.

Nominees and Recipients

Recipients are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[1]

Best Album - Traditional

• La Part du Quêteux - Paye la Traite
  • Erynn Marshall & Chris Coole – Meet Me in the Music
  • Foggy Hogtown Boys – Pigtown Fling
  • John Reischman & The Jaybirds – Stellar Jays
  • Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer – À la grâce de Dieu

Best Album - Contemporary

• The Duhks - Migrations
  • Jim Bryson – Where the Bungalows Roam
  • Oh Susanna – Short Stories
  • David Francey – Right of Passage
  • Jenny Whiteley – Dear

Best Children's Album

• Pied Pumkin - Pumkids: Tuneful Tales for Kids & Kin
  • Debbie Carroll – Simply Beautiful
  • Geneviève Bilodeau & Connie Kaldor – Un Canard à New York
  • Laura Vinson & Free Spirit – Mossbag Lullaby
  • Alex Mahé – Wakin’ Up the Sunshine

Best Singer - Contemporary

• David Francey - Right of Passage
  • Jill Barber – For All Time
  • Jeremy Fisher – Goodbye Blue Monday
  • Dawn Tyler Watson – En Duo
  • T. Nile – At My Table
  • Bruce Cockburn – Life Short Call Now

Best Instrumentalist - Solo

• Anne Lindsay - News From Up the Street
  • Trish Clair-Peck – Dawson’s Tumble
  • Brian Thomas – Prairie Rain
  • Les Finnigan – Things My Guitar Said
  • Gordon Quinton – The Yellow Sky

Best Instrumentalist - Group

• Creaking Tree String Quartet - The Soundtrack
  • The Foggy Hogtown Boys – Pigtown Fling
  • Sultans of String – Luna
  • Les Chauffeurs à Pieds – Au Studio des Trois Lits
  • Jaime RT & Andy Hillhouse – Spark

Best Songwriter - English

• Suzie Ungerleider - Short Stories
  • Emm Gryner – The Summer of High Hopes
  • David Francey – Right of Passage
  • Bruce Cockburn – Life Short Call Now
  • Jon Brooks – Ours and the Shepherds
  • Keri Latimer, Shelley Marshall of Nathan – Key Principles

Best Songwriter - French

• Hugo Fleury of Polémil Bazar - Avale ta montre
  • Sylvie Jean – Déjouer le vent
  • Guillaume Monette, Guillaume Meloche-Charlebois, Nicola Morel of 3 Gars Su’L'Sofa – Des Cobras, des Tarentules
  • Guillaume Arsenault – Le rang des Îles
  • Michel Marchildon - Fragments d’Identité

Best Songwriter - Aboriginal

• Sandy Scofield - Nikawiy Askiy
  • Leela Gilday – Sedze
  • Ry Moran – Groundwater
  • Laura Vinson – Mossbag Lullaby
  • Karen Donaldson Shepherd of The Crow Girls – Where the Green Grass Grows

Best Vocal Group

• Tanglefoot - Dance Like Flames
  • Nathan – Key Principles
  • The Be Good Tanyas – Hello Love
  • Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Let’s Frolic
  • Sirens – Look Up

Best Ensemble

• Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer - À la grâce de Dieu
  • Creaking Tree String Quartet - The Soundtrack
  • The Duhks – Migrations
  • John Reichman & The Jaybirds – Stellar Jays
  • Harry Manx & Kevin Breit – In Good We Trust

Best Solo Artist

• Sarah Noni Metzner - Daybreak Mourning
  • Jeremy Fisher – Goodbye Blue Monday
  • Rose Cousins – If You Were For Me
  • Ian Tamblyn – Superior : Spirit and Light
  • Bruce Cockburn – Life Short Call Now

Best World Solo

• Rita Chiarelli - Cuore : The Italian Sessions
  • Duane Andrews – Crocus
  • Kiran Ahluwalia – Wanderlust
  • Alex Cuba – Agua del Pozo
  • Sara Renelik – Aube

Best World Group

• Mighty Popo - Muhazi
  • Kobo Town – Independence
  • Labess – Tout Va Bien
  • Autorickshaw – So the Journey Goes
  • Les Gitans de Sarajevo – Opa!

Best New/Emerging Artist

• Brigitte Saint-Aubin - Être
  • The Gruff – The Gruff
  • Kim Beggs – Wanderer’s Paean
  • Jacob & Lily – The Cathedral
  • Notre Dame de Grass – New Canada Road

Producer of the Year

• Anne Lindsay and Oliver Schroer - Anne Lindsay/News From Up the Street
  • Joby Baker, Alexis Puentes - Alex Cuba/Agua del Pozo
  • Colin Linden – Blackie and the Rodeo Kings/Let’s Frolic
  • Lewis Melville – Tannis Slimmon/Lucky Blue
  • Jonathan Goldsmith – Bruce Cockburn/Life Short Call Now

Pushing the Boundaries

• Creaking Tree String Quartet - The Soundtrack
  • Harry Manx & Kevin Breit – In Good We Trust
  • Joey Wright – Jalopy
  • The Fugitives – In Streetlight Communion
  • Autorickshaw – So the Journey Goes

Young Performer of the Year

• Kyrie Kristmanson - The Kyrie K Groove
  • The Vissia Sisters – Chrysalis
  • Chrissy Crowley – Chrissy Crowley
  • Nerea – Footprints
  • John Fettes – Poor Art for Poor People

References

1. http://folkawards.ca/past-years/results-2007/

External links

• Canadian Folk Music Awards