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Here’s the Short List for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. One of these albums will win $50,000 tonight

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2022, Canadian Music, Polaris Music Prize, Short List

What was once a list of more then 200 nominated albums became a Long List of forty. And now just

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We have the Short List for Britain’s 2022 Mercury Prize

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2022, Mercury Prize, Short List

A few weeks after the Polaris Music Prize announced the Short List for 2022, the equivalent Short List for Britain’s

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The 2021 Polaris Music Prize Gala is TONIGHT!

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Gala, Grand Jury, Polaris Music Prize, Short List

The finale of the 2021 Polaris Music prize is coming up tonight (September 27) and after months of debating and

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Here is the Short List for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2021, Polaris Music Prize, Short List

You know we’re deep into summer when we start talking about the finalists for the Polaris Music Prize. We started

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Here is your Polaris Music Prize shortlist for 2020

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2020, Polaris Music Prize, Short List

When this whole process began, music wonks such as myself nominated over 200 albums for consideration by the Polaris Music

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Here is the Short List for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Polaris Music Prize, Short List

First came the nominations, resulting in about 200 candidate albums. Then came the vote to bring things down to the

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Shortlist nominations for the 2018 Mercury Prize announced

July 26, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Mercury Prize, Polaris, Short List

The Mercury Prize is the UK equivalent of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize: An attempt to name the best British or

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And the 2018 Polaris Music Prize Short List is…

July 17, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2018, Alvvays, Daniel Caesar, Hubert Lenoir, Jean-Michel Blais, Jeremy Dutcher, Partner, Pierre Kwenders, Polaris Music Prize, Short List, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, U.S. Girls, Weaves

After a year of arguing, lobbying, cajoling, kvetching, and passioned imploring by the 200+ members of the extended Polaris Music

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Here Are Your Performers for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize

August 17, 2016August 16, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2016, Polaris Music Prize, Short List

We’re less than three weeks from the Polaris Music Prize Gala, the night where one artist will be recognized as

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Here Is Your 2016 Polaris Music Prize Short List

July 14, 2016July 14, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2016, Polaris Music Prize, Short List

The Polaris jury pool–music writers, bloggers, journalists, tastemakers, broadcasters, etc.–started by putting forth about 200 albums for consideration. Those were

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The Short List for the 2015 Mercury Prize is Out

October 16, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2015, Barclaycard Mercury Prize, Short List

The Barclay Mercury Prize–the prize upon which our Polaris Music Prize is based–announced the short list of albums for 2015.

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