The 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards were scheduled to presented on April 3 and 4, 2020 in

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'', December 12, 2019. This represents the first time in the history of the awards that the organizing committee decided to present the awards in the spring rather than the fall, and thus the first time that the awards have been presented since November 2018. On March 13, however, the organizing committee announced the cancellation of the ceremony due to the emergence of the

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; instead, the winners were announced via

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on April 4. Performers were scheduled to include Vishtèn,

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, Ayrad,

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Lennie Gallant Lennie Gallant, CM is a Canadian singer-songwriter and instrumentalist from Prince Edward Island. His music crosses into the folk rock and country music genres, while celebrating the musical heritage of his home province. He has been presented ...

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and Le Vent du Nord. Nominations were announced on November 20, 2019."Dave Gunning gets four nominations for Canadian Folk Music Awards"
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'', November 20, 2019.

Nominees and recipients

Recipients are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

References

External links

Canadian Folk Music Awards
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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 progr ...

Canadian Folk Music Awards 15

Canadian Folk Music Canadian folk music has a long history, dating from the 16th and 17th century, mostly derived from the music of early settlers; much earlier for the music of indigenous people. Folk music thus differentiates between traditional and contemporary. ...