2020 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS RECIPIENTS
CFMAs Return To Charlottetown, PE For The 2021 Awards!
[HALIFAX, April 4, 2020] – The 2020 Canadian Folk Music Awards were presented during a live stream Saturday, April 4th at 7pm EDT via our facebook page and website, marking the 15th year of Canada’s premier folk music event. The bilingual broadcast, hosted by Jean Hewson and Benoit Bourque, announced all 20 Awards, including the presentation of the Slaight Unsung Hero Award to Nova Scotia’s Donnie Campbell, and announced that the 2021 CFMAs will be held in Charlottetown, PEI. The Awards were originally scheduled for the weekend of Apr 3-4 in Charlottetown, however, the CFMAs had to cancel the Awards weekend shows and celebrations due to COVID-19.
The CFMAs congratulate all of the 2020 nominees and recipients! Multi CFMA recipients this year were Manitoba duo The Small Glories (Cara Luft and JD Edwards) who were recipients of three CFMAs: Contemporary Album of the Year for Assiniboine & The Red; Vocal Group of the Year and Ensemble of the Year. The full list of 2020 CFMA recipients is below:
2020 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARD RECIPIENTS
- TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR / ALBUM TRADITIONNEL DE L’ANNÉE
- Queen City Jubilee by/par The Slocan Ramblers (ON)
- CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR / ALBUM CONTEMPORAIN DE L’ANNÉE
- Assiniboine & The Red by/par The Small Glories (MB)
- CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR / ALBUM JEUNESSE DE L’ANNÉE
- Lullabies For Big Eyes by/par The Kerplunks (BC)
- TRADITIONAL SINGER OF THE YEAR / CHANTEUR TRADITIONNEL DE L’ANNÉE
- Rachel Davis for/pour Ashlar (Còig) (NS)
- CONTEMPORARY SINGER OF THE YEAR / CHANTEUR CONTEMPORAIN DE L’ANNÉE
- Matt Andersen for/pour Halfway Home By Morning (NS)
- INSTRUMENTAL SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR / INSTRUMENTISTE SOLO DE L’ANNÉE
- Sabin Jacques for/pour Grandes Rencontres (Sabin Jacques & Rachel Aucoin) (QC)
- INSTRUMENTAL GROUP OF THE YEAR / GROUPE INSTRUMENTAL DE L’ANNÉE
- Mairi Rankin & Eric Wright for/pour The Cabin Sessions (ON)
- VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR / GROUPE VOCAL DE L’ANNÉE
- The Small Glories for/pour Assiniboine & The Red (MB)
- ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR / GROUPE DE L’ANNÉE
- The Small Glories for/pour Assiniboine & The Red (MB)
- SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR / ARTISTE SOLO DE L’ANNÉE
- Irish Mythen for/pour Little Bones (PE)
- ENGLISH SONGWRITER(S) OF THE YEAR / AUTEUR-COMPOSITEUR(S) ANGLOPHONE DE L’ANNÉE
- Abigail Lapell for/pour Getaway (ON)
- FRENCH SONGWRITER(S) OF THE YEAR /AUTEUR-COMPOSITEUR(S) FRANCOPHONE DE L’ANNÉE
- Bernard Adamus for/pour C’qui nous reste du Texas (QC)
- INDIGENOUS SONGWRITER(S) OF THE YEAR / AUTEUR-COMPOSITEUR(S) AUTOCHTONE DE L’ANNÉE
- Diyet van Lieshout for/pour Diyet & the Love Soldiers (YT)
- WORLD SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR / ARTISTE DE L’ANNÉE MUSIQUE DU MONDE – SOLO
- Wesli for/pour Rapadou Kreyol (QC)
- WORLD GROUP OF THE YEAR / GROUPE DE MUSIQUE DE MONDE DE L’ANNÉE
- Ayrad for/pour Zoubida (QC)
- NEW/EMERGING ARTIST(S) OF THE YEAR / ARTISTE(S) DE LA RELÈVE
- Geneviève Racette for/pour No Water, No Flowers (QC)
- PRODUCER(S) OF THE YEAR / RÉALISATEUR(S) DE L’ANNÉE
- Daniel Ledwell for/pour Time Travel (Lennie Gallant) (NS)
- PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES AWARD / PRIX INNOVATION MUSICALE
- Elisapie for/pour The Ballad of the Runaway Girl (QC)
- YOUNG PERFORMER(S) OF THE YEAR / JEUNE ARTISTE(S) DE L’ANNÉE
- Joshua Haulli for/pour AQQUT (NU)
Provincially, artists from Quebec received the most awards, six in total. The provinces of Ontario, Manitoba and Nova Scotia each had three artists per province receive awards. The provinces of British Columbia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island and Yukon had one recipient per province.
Recipients by province are listed here → CFMA 2020 Recipients by Province
2020 CFMA nominees Spotify playlist → Canadian Folk Music Awards 2020 Nominees
