To our international readers, the JUNOs is Canada’s biggest musical awards across all music genres.
This year, the 52nd JUNO Awards show will be held in Edmonton, Alberta and will be hosted by Simu Liu. Also, this year’s nomination leader is The Weeknd with 6, followed by Avril Lavigne and Tate McRae, both with 5.
JunoFest is the precursor to the broadcasted awards show. It is presented by the Canadian Broadcasting Cooperation (CBC) Music and is slated to showcase approximately 50 artists from various genres, representing from across the country at various intimate pubs and entertainment venues.
“We nuh partial” but we will focus on highlighting a few of the events that caught our attention.
Ishkode Records will stage an event as part of CBC Music’s JUNOFest at The Starlite Room on March 12th with performances by Amanda Rheaume, Aysanabee, Celeigh Cardinal, Digging Roots, Evan Redsky, Fawn Wood, Morgan Toney, Rellik, Sechile Sedare. On Friday night starting at 7 PM, Sergeant X Comrade, Ammoye (6-time Juno Nominee), Chad Price, Cab’Ral, St Arnaud, Vivek Shraya will be performing.
On Saturday, March 11th at the Rec Room, last year’s winner of the “Reggae Recording of the Year” and this year’s nominee for 2 songs in the same category, Kario McLean will be performing.
One other notable event we’d like to mention in the run up to the big night is the celebrity hockey game (JUNO Cup) that pits musicians and professional athletes against each other in support of MusiCounts, Canada’s music education charity.
Here are some of the nominees for this year’s awards:
International Album Of The Year
Single Of The Year
