Ken Yates is a

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folk singer-songwriter, who won the

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for English Songwriter of the Year and New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the

13th Canadian Folk Music Awards The 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards were presented in Ottawa, Ontario on November 19, 2017.Brock Thiessen"Canadian Folk Music Awards Reveal 2017 Nominees" ''Exclaim'', September 21, 2017. Nominees and recipients Recipients are listed first and hi ...

in 2017. Originally from

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, Yates studied at the

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

."Five Questions With… Ken Yates"
''FYI Music News'', September 27, 2016. He released ''The Backseat EP'' in 2011, and followed up with his full-length debut ''twenty-three'' in 2013. He won the

Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award The Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award is an annual Canadian award, presented to the year's best song by an emerging singer-songwriter from Ontario in the genres of roots, traditional, folk and country music. The award, created in memory of Canadi ...

in 2014 for his song "The One That Got Away". His second album, ''Huntsville'', was released in 2016 and was produced by

Jim Bryson Jim Bryson is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Briefly a founding member of the band Punchbuggy, he moved to a musical life under his own name with the release of his debut album, ''The Occasionals'', in 2000. A member of singer-songwriter Kath ...

. Yates released the singles, "Two Wrongs", "Quiet Talkers", and "When We Came Home", in advance of his full-length album, ''Quiet Talkers'', released in 2020. He released his next album, ''Cerulean'', on June 3, 2022.

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