Debby Friday wins the 2023 Polaris Music Prize
The culmination of a year’s worth of debate came to an end last night at Massey Hall in Toronto when Debby Friday’s album, Good Luck, was awarded the 2023 Polaris Prize. This all
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Here is the Long List for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize
From 221 nominated albums comes the Polaris Music Prize Long List, the forty semi-finalists for 2023. Everything was nominated and then voted on by 205 music wonks across Canada (including me). A second
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Here are the key dates for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize
The debates among the 200+ jurors have already begun and there’s already a long list of albums that have been suggested for this year’s Polaris Music Prize. While all that’s going on, we
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Time to vote on the 2022 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize
Now that the Polaris Music Prize is over for another year, the next item on the agenda is the 2022 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize. The goal is to give recognition to worthy
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The winner of the 2022 Polaris Music Prize is Pierre Kwenders
After a year of debate and voting, the Polaris Music Prize has declared that José Louis and the Paradox of Love by Pierre Kwenders is the best Canadian album of the last 12
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Here’s the Short List for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. One of these albums will win $50,000 tonight
What was once a list of more then 200 nominated albums became a Long List of forty. And now just ten remain in contention for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. Here we go
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Here is the Long List for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize
After months of recommendations, discussion, debating, arguing, and kvetching, the Polaris Music Prize people ended up with a list of more than 200 albums that needed to be considered by the 200+ music
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Here are the key Polaris Music Prize dates for 2022
In another sure sign of spring, the dates have been announced for the Polaris Music Prize for this year. Members of the jury–200+ music wonks from across the country (including me) have been
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The 2021 Polaris Music Prize Gala is TONIGHT!
The finale of the 2021 Polaris Music prize is coming up tonight (September 27) and after months of debating and arguing, one album will be named the best Canadian record of the year
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Random music news for Tuesday, August 3, 2021
It’s my parents’ anniversary today: 64 years. Wow. As for other things happening on August 3, 2021, here’s some music news. The Polaris Music Prize is looking for a new executive director. Here’s
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Here is the Short List for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize
You know we’re deep into summer when we start talking about the finalists for the Polaris Music Prize. We started with over 200 albums nominated by more than 200 music wonks across the
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