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Alessia Cara Leads Canadian Grammy Nominees
ALESSIA CARA AT THE 2017 JUNO AWARDS Alessia Cara leads the Canadian nominees for the 2018 Grammy Awards . Justin Bieber , Leonard Cohen , Michael Buble , Sarah McLachlan , Daniel Caesar , and The Weeknd are among the other Canadians up for Grammys .
Cara is nominated for New Artist of the Year , while her song with Logic and Khalid , “ 1-800-273-8255 ,” is nominated for both Song and Video of the Year . The song “ Stay ” by Zedd and Cara is up for the Pop / Duo Group Performance award .
The global hit “ Despacito ” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Bieber is nominated for Record , Song , and Best Pop Duo and Group Performance of the Year .
Buble and McLachlan are both nominated in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category . Buble is up for the deluxe edition of Nobody But Me and McLachlan for Wonderland .
Cohen is nominated posthumously in the Best Rock Performance category for his song “ You Want It Darker ,” and Best American Roots Performance for the track “ Steer Your Way .” Additionally , Arcade Fire is up for Best Alternative Album for Everything Now . Daniel Caesar is nominated twice with the song “ Get You ” up for Best R & B Performance and his debut album Freudian up for Best R & B Album . Alex Cuba is nominated for Best Latin Pop Album for Lo Unico Constante and Northern Cree is nominated for Best Regional Roots Music Album for Miyo Kekisepa , Make a Stand .
Other Canadian nominees include the cast and writers of the hit theatre production Come From Away , mastering engineer Joao Carvalho , and recording engineer Ryan Freeland .
The Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on Jan . 28 , 2018 . For a full list of nominees , go to www . grammy . com .
DAVID FARRELL
David Farrell to Be Inducted into Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame Canadian Music Week has announced that David Farrell will be the 2018 inductee to the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame for his achievements and longstanding career in the music industry at the annual awards gala at Rebel Nightclub in Toronto on May 10 , 2018 .
For more than four decades , Farrell has chronicled the ups , downs , triumphs , disasters , and constant changes of Canada ’ s music industry . He is the former co-publisher of The Record and has been reporting on Canadian music and the industry for more than 35 years . For the last 10 years , Farrell has run the Canadian music industry website FYImusicnews . ca and its newsletter , which covers the industry ’ s people , companies , and organizations .
For more information , go to www . cmw . net .
DANNY MICHEL AT THE CFMAs
Danny Michel & Ken Yates among Canadian Folk Music Award Winners Twenty awards were handed out over two bilingual evening celebrations at the 13 th Canadian Folk Music Awards in Ottawa on Nov . 18 th and 19 th .
Danny Michel was honoured twice for his innovative album Khlebnikov , which received the Oliver Schroer Pushing the Boundaries Award . He was also awarded the Producer of the Year Award along with his collaborator Rob Carli . London , ON songwriter Ken Yates won two awards for New / Emerging Artist of the Year and English Songwriter of the Year for his album Huntsville .
Women feature strongly within this year ’ s list of award recipients , including the duos of Cassie and Maggie , Mama ’ s Broke ( Lisa Maria and Amy Lou ), and Moscow Apartment ( Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla ) as well as solo projects from Abigail Lapell and Hannah Shira Naiman . Coco Méliès ’ Francesca Marie Comeau and Twin Flames ’ Chelsey June were also winners .
For a full list of nominees and winners , go to www . folkawards . ca .
Calgary ’ s Brad Saunders Wins Project WILD Grand Prize Calgary ’ s Brad Saunders won the $ 100,953 grand prize in the 2017 edition of Project WILD .
Administered by Alberta Music and funded through Calgary country music radio station WILD 953 , Project WILD is part of a seven-year , $ 4.9 million program designed to kick-start the international music careers of three emerging Alberta artists annually , and give a boost to all Top 12 finalists selected by an industry jury .
The top three finalists were : Brad Saunders ($ 100,953 ); Nice Horse ($ 75,000 ); and Tanya Ryan ($ 50,000 ).
For more information , go to www . projectwildcountry . com .
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