The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2020 JUNO Awards in Saskatoon. This year the awards, taking place on March 15, 2020, will be hosted by singer-songwriter Alessia Cara. Each year the JUNO Awards are presented to Canadian musical artists and bands to bring to light their achievements across many aspects of music. The Orchard is a proud partner of over 15 distributed artists and labels nominated this year.
City and Colour were nominated for Adult Alternative Album of the Year for their sixth studio album entitled A Pill For Loneliness, released in October of last year. Produced and mixed by Jaquire King and mastered by Emily Lazar, the album showed a more “celestial” side of Canadian musician Dallas Green. Dallas began recording with City and Colour in 2005. Catch their live performance as they embark on tour in Europe in just a few weeks!
Let’s take a look at our nominated artists and labels below.
ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
City and Colour – A Pill for Loneliness (Still/Dine Alone)
iskwē – acākosīk (iskwē Music)
ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Black Mountain – Destroyer (Dine Alone)
ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The Dirty Nil – Master Volume (Dine Alone)
FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Les Louanges – La nuit est une panthère (Bonsound)
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: LARGE ENSEMBLE
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre National Des Arts du Canada, conducted by Alexander Shelly – The Bound of our Dreams (Analekta*Select)
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Kent Nagano feat. Charles Richard-Hamelin – Chopin: Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Analekta*Select)
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: VOCAL OR CHORAL
Philippe Sly with Le Chimera Project – Schubert: Winterreise (Analekta*Select)
CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Dan Bremnes – Wherever I Go (Bremnes Ventures)
JACK RICHARDSON PRODUCER OF THE YEAR:
Derek Hoffman
NIGHT IN THE PARK, KISS IN THE DARK – “Hide Your Love” (Caveboy)
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR: (PRESENTED BY STINGRAY)
Corridor – “Topographe” – Jonathan Robert (Bonsound)
iskwē – “Little Star” – Sarah Legault (iskwē music)
METAL/HARD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Kobra And The Lotus – Evolution (Napalm)
Single Mothers – Through A Wall (Dine Alone)
The Agonist – Orphans (Napalm)
