Traditional Album of the Year

• James Hill & Anne Davison – True Love Don’t Weep (Langley, BC)
• Colette Cheverie – Hours Before Dawn (Charlottetown, PE)
• Dave Gossage and the Celtic Mindwarp – Dave Gossage and the Celtic Mindwarp (Montréal)
• Réveillons – Malbrough n’est pas mort (Montréal)
• The Haints Old Time Stringband – Shout Monah (Cobble Hill BC / Victoria BC)

Contemporary Album of the Year

• Joel Plaskett – Three (Halifax)
• Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels (Toronto)
• Jim Byrnes – My Walking Stick (Vancouver)
• Ndidi Onukwulu – The Contradictor (Vancouver)
• Romi Mayes – Achin in Yer Bones (Winnipeg)

Children’s Album of the Year

• Chris McKhool – FiddleFire! (Toronto)
• Kathy Reid-Naiman – Zoom Zoom Cuddle and Croon (Aurora ON)
• Maggie G. – Around The House With Maggie G. (Thornhill / Originally from Ottawa)
• Tasha Platt – Big Bad Bantam Rooster (Calgary)
• The Kerplunks – Walk On (Gabriola Island BC)

Traditional Singer of the Year

• Colette Cheverie – Hours Before Dawn (Charlottetown, PE)
• Dave MacDonald – Lazy Jacks – East Coast Live (Charlottetown, PE)
• Ian Bell – My Pious Friends & Drunken Companions (Paris, ON)
• Monique Jutras – Le Chant de la Mariniere (Longueuil, QC)
• Peter Wynne – Lazy Jacks – East Coast Live (Charlottetown, PE)

Contemporary Singer of the Year

• Jim Byrnes – My Walking Stick (Vancouver)
• Jessica Rhaye – Good Things (St. John, NB)
• Marianne Girard – Pirate Days (Toronto)
• Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day (Hamilton)
• Suzie Vinnick – Happy Here (Toronto)

Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year

• Tony McManus – The Maker’s Mark (Elora, ON)
• Guy Donis – Paroles d’arbre (Montréal)
• Don Alder – Not A Planet (Vancouver)
• Joel Fafard – Three Hens Escape Oblivion (Madeira Park, BC, originally from Regina)
• Karrnnel – Karrnnel (Saskatoon)

Instrumental Group of the Year

• Sultans of String – Yalla Yalla! (Toronto)
• De Lònga – À l’abri du temps (Montréal)
• La Nef – Deserts (Montreal)
• OktoEcho – OktoEcho (Montréal)
• The Rakish Angles – The Rakish Angles (Gibsons, BC)

English Songwriter of the Year

• Susan Crowe – Greytown (Halifax)
• Jon Brooks – Moth Nor Rust (Toronto)
• Rob Heath – One More Day Above Ground (Edmonton)
• Rob Lutes – Truth & Fiction (Montréal)
• William Hawkins – Various Artists – Dancing Alone: Songs by William Hawkins (Ottawa)

French Songwriter of the Year

• Catherine Durand – Coeurs Migratoires (Montréal)
• Guillaume Monette, Guillaume Meloche-Charlebois & Nicola Morel – 3 Gars su’l sofa – Cerf-Volant (Montréal)
• Caracol – L’Abre aux Parfums (Montréal)
• Maryse Letarte – Des Pas Dans la Neige (Montréal)
• Paul Cargnello – Bras Coupé (Montréal)

Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year

• Don Amero / Deepening (Winnipeg)
• Buffy Sainte-Marie – Running for the Drum (Qu’Appelle Valley, SK)
• Vince Fontaine, Jay Bodner & Chris Burke-Gaffney / Eagle & Hawk – Sirensong (Winnipeg)
• Tagaq for Auk/Blood (Cambridge Bay, NT)
• Violet Naytowhow – Wind of the North (Prince Albert, SK)

Vocal Group of the Year

• Madison Violet – No Fool For Trying (Toronto)
• Cantarra – Beautiful Air (Ottawa)
• Dala – Everyone is Someone (Toronto)
• Serre L’Ecoute – Buveurs Philosophes (Quebec, QC)
• The Breakmen – When You Leave Town (Vancouver)

Ensemble of the Year

• The Deep Dark Woods – Winter Hours (Saskatoon)
• Annie Lou – Annie Lou (Whitehorse, YT)
• OktoEcho – OktoEcho (Montréal)
• Sultans of String – Yalla Yalla! (Toronto)
• The Haints Old Time Stringband – Shout Monah (Cobble Hill BC / Victoria BC)

Solo Artist of the Year

• Catherine MacLellan – Water in the Ground (Charlottetown, PE)
• Ian Tyson – Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories (Longview, AB)
• Joel Plaskett – Three (Halifax)
• Maria Dunn – The Peddler (Edmonton, AB)
• Suzie Vinnick – Happy Here (Toronto)

World Solo Artist of the Year

• Karim Saada – La Danse de L’exilé (L’Assomption, QC)
• Florent Vollant – Eku Mamu (Montréal)
• George Koufogiannakis – Generations – Greek Oud Jazz (Edmonton)
• Lorraine Klaasen – Africa Calling (Montréal)
• Wesli – Kouraj (Montreal)

World Group of the Year

• Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko – Africa to Appalachia (Toronto / Québec, QC)
• Ensemble Montréal Tango – Enamorada (Montréal)
• La Nef – Deserts (Montréal)
• OktoEcho – OktoEcho (Montréal)
• The Huppa Project – Under the Canopy (Toronto)

New/Emerging Artist of the Year

• The Good Lovelies – Good Lovelies (Toronto)
• David Baxter – Day & Age (Toronto)
• Kate Reid – I’m Just Warming Up (Vancouver)
• Lynne Hanson – Eleven Months (Ottawa)
• The Breakmen – When You Leave Town (Vancouver)

Producer of the Year

• Joel Plaskett / Joel Plaskett – Three (Halifax)
• Jocelyn Tellier & Catherine Durand / Catherine Durand – Coeurs Migratoires (Montréal)
• Mike Roth / Dala – Everyone is Someone (Toronto)
• David Travers-Smith / Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko – Africa to Appalachia (Toronto)
• Jonathan Goldsmith / Jenn Grant – Echos (Toronto area)

Pushing the Boundaries

• Steve Dawson – Telescope (Vancouver)
• Doug Cox et Salil Bhatt – Slide to Freedom 2 – Make a Better World (Cumberland, BC)
• Joel Plaskett – Three (Halifax)
• Sultans of String – Yalla Yalla! (Toronto)
• Wendy McNeill – A Dreamer’s Guide to Hardcore Living (Edmonton)

Young Performer of the Year

• Ariana Gillis – Ariana Gillis (Vineland, ON)
• Chrissy Crowley – The Departure (Margaree, NS)
• Qristina et Quinn Bachand – Relative Minors (Victoria, BC)
• Sierra Noble – Possibilities (Winnipeg)
• Taylor Mitchell – For Your Consideration (Toronto)