6th Canadian Folk Music Awards

6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Date	November 20, 2010
Location	Pantages Playhouse Theatre
Country	Canada
Host	Shelagh Rogers and Benoit Bourque
Official website	folkawards.ca

The 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards were held on November 20, 2010, at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Nominees and Recipients

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

Traditional Album of the Year

• The Once - The Once
  • Le Vent du Nord - La Part du Feu
  • The Foggy Hogtown Boys - Scotch and Sofa
  • David Francey & Mike Ford - Seaway
  • The Sojourners - The Sojourners

Contemporary Album of the Year

• John Wort Hannam - Queen's Hotel
  • Amelia Curran - Hunter, Hunter
  • Dala - Girls from the North Country
  • Lennie Gallant - If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante
  • Old Man Luedecke - My Hands Are On Fire And Other Love Songs

Children's Album of the Year

• Andrew Queen - Too Tall
  • Kathy Reid-Naiman - Sing The Cold Winter Away
  • The Kerplunks - Number 3
  • Madame Diva
  • Peter Lenton aka Peter Puffin's Whale Tales - Proud Like A Mountain

Traditional Singer of the Year

• Yves Lambert - Bal à l'Huile
  • Emma Beaton and Nic Gareiss
  • Woody Holler and his Orchestra - Western Skies
  • Rebecca Barclay - Cinnabar
  • Rik Barron - Never So Far

Contemporary Singer of the Year

• Rose Cousins - The Send Off
  • James Keelaghan - House of Cards
  • Justin Rutledge - The Early Widows
  • Lynn Miles - Black Flowers Volume 1 & 2
  • Nathan Rogers - The Gauntlet

Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year

• Wendell Ferguson - Ménage à Moi
  • Brad Keller - House on Fire
  • Colin Grant - Fun For The Whole Family
  • Sahra Featherstone - Born of a Summers’s Day
  • Samantha Robichaud - Collected

Instrumental Group of the Year

• Beyond the Pale - Postcards
  • Duo Duval-Boulanger - Pièces sur Pièces
  • Daniel Koulack and Karrnnel - Fiddle and Banjo
  • Oliver Schroer & Stewed Tomatoes - Freedom Row
  • Sokoun Trio - Zanneh

English Songwriter of the Year

• Ian Tamblyn - Gyre
  • Amelia Curran - Hunter, Hunter
  • Lennie Gallant - If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante
  • Justin Rutledge - The Early Widows
  • Chris MacLean - Feet Be Still

French Songwriter of the Year

• Francis d'Octobre - Ma bête fragile
  • Lennie Gallant - If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante
  • David Jalbert - Le Journal
  • Fredric Gary Comeau - Effeuiller les vertiges
  • Geneviève Toupin - Geneviève Toupin

Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year

• Asani - Listen
  • Brenda MacIntyre - Medicine Song
  • Eagle and Hawk - The Great Unknown
  • Tom Racine - Three Mile Junction
  • Wayne Lavallée - Trail of Tears

Vocal Group of the Year

• Dala - Girls from the North Country
  • The Once - The Once
  • The Sojourners - The Sojourners
  • The Marigolds - That’s The State I’m In
  • The Wailin' Jennys - Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House

Ensemble of the Year

• Le Vent du Nord - La Part du Feu
  • The Sojourners - The Sojourners
  • Beyond the Pale - Postcards
  • Les Tireux d’Roches - Les Tireux d’Roches Cé qu’essé?
  • Nicolas Pellerin - et les Grands Hurleurs

Solo Artist of the Year

• Amelia Curran - Hunter, Hunter
  • Old Man Luedecke - My Hands Are On Fire And Other Love Songs
  • Justin Rutledge - The Early Widows
  • David Myles - Turn Time Off
  • Matt Andersen - Live From The Phoenix Theatre

World Artist of the Year - Solo

• Dominic Mancuso - Comfortably Mine
  • Briga - Diaspora
  • Élage Diouf - Aksil
  • Jeff Bien - Songs of Forgiveness and Prayer
  • Jocelyn Pettit - Jocelyn Pettit

World Artist of the Year - Group

• Sokoun Trio - Zanneh
  • Le Vent du Nord - La Part du Feu
  • Beyond the Pale - Postcards
  • Roberto Lopez - Project Soy Panamericano
  • Apadooraï - Kinda Roots

New/Emerging Artist of the Year

• The Once - The Once
  • Jack Marks - Two of Everything
  • Jadea Kelly - Eastbound Platform
  • Jay Aymar - Halfway Home
  • Peter Katz - First of the Last to know

Producer of the Year

• Steve Dawson - Various/Things About Comin' My Way
  • David Gillis - Arianna Gillis/To Make it Make Sense
  • Hawksley Workman - Justin Rutledge/The Early Widows
  • Jory Nash - Jory Nash/New Blue Day
  • Thom Swift and Charles Austin - Thom Swift/Blue Sky Day

Pushing the Boundaries

• Beyond the Pale - Postcards
  • Daniel Koulack and Karrnnel - Fiddle and Banjo
  • Oliver Schroer & Stewed Tomatoes - Freedom Row
  • Mauvais Sort - Droit Devant
  • Miss Emily Brown - In Technicolor

Young Performer of the Year

• Alexandre Boivin-Caron - La Tradition
  • Kierah - A Fiddle Affair
  • Jocelyn Pettit - Jocelyn Pettit
  • Lucas Chaisson - No Loitering
  • Rachel Davis - Rachel Davis

References

1. http://folkawards.ca/past-years/results-2010/

External links

• Canadian Folk Music Awards