The Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award is an annual Canadian award, presented to the year's best song by an emerging singer-songwriter from Ontario in the genres of roots, traditional, folk and country music.[1] The award, created in memory of Canadian country singer Colleen Peterson, is sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals (OCFF), and is presented to a songwriter selected from 15 nominations put forward by the OCFF's Songs from the Heart songwriting competition,[2] excluding overall winners of the Galaxie Rising Stars Awards. The award was initially funded in part by royalties from the sale of Postcards from California, a posthumous album collecting some of Peterson's unreleased demo recordings.[3]

The award was presented for the first time in 2003.

Winners

Ariana Gillis, the winner of the award in 2012, is the daughter of 2004 winner David Gillis.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Performers band together in name of Colleen Peterson". Toronto Star, October 3, 2002.
  2. ^ "Folk festival accepting entries for awards". Waterloo Chronicle, May 7, 2008.
  3. ^ "Music of Canadian country legend found and released years after her death". Lindsay This Week, October 5, 2004.
  4. ^ "First Peterson songwriting award to evalyn parry". Peterborough Examiner, October 10, 2003.
  5. ^ "Peterson Award goes to Vineland musician". Peterborough Examiner, October 21, 2004.
  6. ^ "Night of the guitar returns". Cowichan News Leader, February 13, 2008.
  7. ^ "Roots welcomes Wilson to the stage". Vernon Morning Star, September 26, 2008.
  8. ^ "Ottawa singer wins songwriting award". Ottawa Citizen, October 17, 2009.
  9. ^ "Folk artist Lynne Hanson performs at Old Church on Saturday". Quinte EMC, January 19, 2017.
  10. ^ a b "'Music is it for me'". Niagara This Week, October 14, 2012.
  11. ^ "Local singer Leila Goldberger wins Colleen Peterson Songwriting award" Archived December 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Metro, October 21, 2013.
  12. ^ "Toronto's Ken Yates Receives 2014 Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award". Ontario Arts Council, October 15, 2014.
  13. ^ "Toronto roots-rock band shakes it up on new album". Times & Transcript, May 2, 2015.
  14. ^ "Abigail Lapell and the power of melody". Waterloo Region Record, January 13, 2017.
  15. ^ "Music News Digest, Oct. 20, 2017". FYI Music News, October 20, 2017.
  16. ^ "Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award Laureates". Ontario Arts Council. 2016. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017.

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