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14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
The 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards were presented on November 30 and December 1, 2018 in Calgary, Alberta. '''', September 20, 2018. Nominees and recipients Recipients are listed first and highlighted in boldface.References External links Canadian Folk Music Awards {{Canadian Folk Music Awards [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Alberta Institute Of Technology
The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) is a polytechnic institute in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. SAIT offers more than 110 career programs in technology, trades and business. Established in 1916, it is Calgary's second oldest post-secondary institution and Canada's first publicly funded technical institute. Campus location and expansion SAIT's main campus is located on 16 Avenue NW, overlooking the downtown core of Calgary and is served by the CTrain light rail system. SAIT has three other campuses located in Calgary: * Mayland Heights – Located on Centre Avenue, this facility supports students pursuing a career in auto body, crane and hoisting, recreation vehicle servicing, electrical, plumbing and rail. * Culinary Campus – Located on Stephen Avenue, it provides baking basics and cooking fundamentals. The Culinary Campus also acts as a marketplace, selling food to the general public. * Art Smith Aero Centre – Occupying of land at the Calgary International Airp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Papillon
Gabrielle Strasfeld, known professionally as Gabrielle Papillon, is a Canadian musician and songwriter based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. To date she has recorded seven albums. Career In 2015, she released her fifth album ''The Tempest of Old''. It charted on Canadian national campus radio, CBC Radio 2, and the international iTunes Singer-Songwriter charts and won the Music Nova Scotia Award for Recording of the Year. She also began working with veteran music manager Peter Jenner. She released her sixth album ''Keep the Fire'' in 2017. The album was nominated for three East Coast Music Awards, four Music Nova Scotia Awards, and a Canadian Folk Music Award, winning the Music Nova Scotia award for SOCAN Songwriter of the Year in 2018. Papillon's seventh album ''Shout'' was released in 2019. Songs from Papillon's albums have appeared in various films and television shows in Canada, the United States, and Australia including ''Rookie Blue'' (USA) and ''This Life'' (CAN). Tom Power, host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pharis And Jason Romero
Pharis and Jason Romero are a Canadian folk music duo, most noted as three-time Juno Award winners for Traditional Roots Album of the Year. They won the award at the Juno Awards of 2021 for their album ''Bet On Love'', the Juno Awards of 2016 for their album ''A Wanderer I'll Stay'', and at the Juno Awards of 2018 for ''Sweet Old Religion''. A husband and wife duo from Horsefly, British Columbia,"Musical duo plucks an idyllic life; Romero crafts instruments and plays old-time music with his wife". ''The Province'', April 5, 2013. they write, record and perform folk music. They also build handcrafted banjos under the business name J. Romero Banjos.Roger Levesque"Contemporary musicians have folk-roots tuned to nature, jazz roots tuned to 1920s" ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', October 16, 2018. History The pair met at an old-time fiddle jam and later married.Anna Borowiecki"Chatter celebrates Pharis and Jason Romero, Bridget Ryan and Maggie Tree" ''St. Albert Gazette'', October 16, 2018. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swinging Belles
The Swinging Belles are a Canadian children's music group from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador."Swinging with the Belles" '''', December 3, 2014. The band, who perform in a style, consists of vocalists Laura Winter and Erin Power, and guitarist Duane Andrews. Winter and Power are both schoolteachers who also perform country music with The Dilettantes, and Andrews is Power's husband. Power is also the sister of musician and broadcaster |
Splash'N Boots
Splash'N Boots is a Canadian children's music duo consisting of Nick Adams (Splash) and Taes Leavitt (Boots). Adams and Leavitt formed Splash'N Boots in 2003 as a class project while studying at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. In 2014, Splash'N Boots were nominated for their first Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year for their album ''Coconuts Don't Fall Far from the Tree''. They have since been nominated in 2015 for ''Happy Times'', in 2016 for ''Songs from the Boot'', in 2017 for ''Big Yellow Tunes'' and in 2018 for ''Love, Kisses and Hugs'' and won the award in 2019 for ''You, Me and the Sea''. In 2007, 2012, and 2014, Splash'N Boots won the SiriusXM Independent Music Award for Children's Artist/Group or Duo of the Year. Splash'N Boots have a TV series which airs on Treehouse TV Treehouse TV is a Canadian English-language specialty channel for preschoolers aged 2 to 5 that was launched in 1997. Its name comes from YTV's former preschool block, " The Tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oot N' Oots
The Oot n' Oots are a Canadian folk rock and children's music band from Kelowna, British Columbia. They are most noted for their album ''Ponderosa Bunchgrass and the Golden Rule'', which was a Juno Award nominee for Children's Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022. The band consists of brothers Gabe, Matthew, Ari, and Ezra Cipes, along with Ezra's daughter Ruth on lead vocals.Kathy Michaels"The inside track with the Oot n’ Oots in Kelowna" ''Kelowna Capital News'', June 12, 2018. They released their debut album, ''Songs and Tales from the Great Blue Whale'', in 2016, and received a nomination for Children's Artist of the Year at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards. They followed up in 2018 with ''Electric Jellyfish Boogaloo'', which was a Canadian Folk Music Award nominee for Children's Album of the Year at the 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards The 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards were presented on November 30 and December 1, 2018 in Calgary, Alberta. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher (born Jeremy Binns; December 15, 1976) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Fisher is based in Ottawa, Ontario, and was previously based on Vancouver Island, B.C., Montreal, Quebec, and in Seattle, Washington, US. Fisher's work is heavily influenced by folk and blues music, and his songs feature accompaniment by acoustic guitar, slide guitar and harmonica. Life and career Fisher's mother, Judy Binns, is from Newfoundland, Canada. Fisher was a member of the Hamilton All-Star Jazz Band at Westdale Secondary School (Class of 1995), attended Camp Gesher in 1999, and became a camp counsellor at YMCA Wanakita. He performed with the band The Obvious under the name Jeremy Binns, and some of his early songs that he performed with The Obvious, including "Lemon Meringue Pie" and "Kiss the Moon" are on his later albums. In 1999, The Obvious put out a self-titled CD. To support his 2001 independent debut album, '' Back Porch Spirituals'', Fisher spent six months touring from Seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édith Butler
Édith Butler (born Marie Nicole Butler, 27 July 1942) is an Acadian-Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist of from New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula. Biography Édith Butler was born in Paquetville on the Acadian Peninsula in Gloucester County, New Brunswick. During the 1960s she obtained a Bachelor of Arts, taught school, and then earned a Master’s degree in literature and traditional ethnography at Laval University in 1969. Career in music Her career began in the early 1960s with performances in Moncton. In 1969, she released her debut album, "Chansons d’Acadie," of traditional Acadian songs. This was followed by national appearances on CBC Television's ''Singalong Jubilee'' where she gained popularity and began to receive invitations to participate in various Canadian and American folk festivals. In the early 1970's she represented Canada at the Universal Exposition in Osaka and performed in over 500 performances across Japan. Following this, she made sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Savoie
Caroline may refer to: People *Caroline (given name), a feminine given name * J. C. Caroline (born 1933), American college and National Football League player * Jordan Caroline (born 1996), American (men's) basketball player Places Antarctica * Caroline Bluff, a headland in the South Shetland Islands Australia *Caroline, South Australia, a locality in the District Council of Grant *Hundred of Caroline, a cadastral sub-unit of the County of Grey in South Australia Canada *Caroline, Alberta, a village Kiribati *Caroline Island, an uninhabited coral atoll in the central Pacific Micronesia *Caroline Islands an archipelago in the western Pacific, northeast of New Guinea *Caroline Plate, a small tectonic plate north of New Guinea United States *Caroline, New York, a town *Caroline, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Caroline, Wisconsin, an unincorporated census-designated place *Caroline County, Maryland *Caroline County, Virginia *Fort Caroline, the first French colony in what is now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishtèn
Vishtèn is a Canadian folk music group from Prince Edward Island and the Magdalen Islands, whose style is rooted in Acadian music."Vishtèn débarque à Moncton avec son nouveau spectacle" '''', January 8, 2019. The group consisted of vocalists and instrumentalists Pastelle and Emmanuelle LeBlanc, and instrumentalist Pascal Miousse, but Pastelle LeBlanc died of breast cancer in 2022 at age 42. The group is most noted for their 2018 album ''Horizons'', which received a |
