Edition of Canadian music award ceremony
The Juno Awards of 2009 honoured music industry achievements in Canada in the latter part of 2007 and in most of 2008. These ceremonies were held in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada during the weekend ending 29 March 2009.[1] [2]
Loverboy was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame , and Sarah McLachlan received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award .[3] CHUM Limited executive, received the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award .[4]
Events
Preliminary award-related events began on 26 March 2009. The following day featured a Welcome Reception at the Commodore Ballroom and a Juno Cup ice hockey game at the UBC Thunderbird Arena .[5]
Most awards were announced at a Gala Dinner and Awards which was a restricted-access, non-televised event at Vancouver's Westin Bayshore Hotel on 28 March 2009. The only multiple-category winner at that event was The Stills who won New Group of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year (Oceans Will Rise Dangerous " was awarded Single of the Year , over competition from songs by established major artists such as Michael Bublé, Céline Dion and Nickelback.[6]
Primary ceremonies
Loverboy, inductees of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, at the 2009 Juno Awards ceremony The primary awards ceremony on 29 March 2009 was telecast by CTV from General Motors Place and hosted for the second consecutive year by Russell Peters .[1] [7] [8]
Artists performing at the ceremonies broadcast included City and Colour , Nickelback , Sarah McLachlan and Simple Plan .[9] [10]
Nominees and winners
The band Nickelback received five Juno Award nominations, the most of any band or individual artist. Celine Dion and Hedley earned nominations in three categories apiece.[11] Simple Plan and Alexisonfire vocalist Dallas Green (performing as City and Colour ).[12]
Nominees were announced at a press conference on 5 February 2009. Reporters in attendance expressed an uncertain reaction to the announcement, particularly to the number of nominations given to the critically reviled Nickelback.[13]
The following were the 2009 Juno nominees and winners:[11]
Winner: Sam Roberts
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Winner: Nickelback
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Winner: Lights
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Winner: The Stills
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Winner: Daniel Lanois , "Here Is What Is" and "Not Fighting Anymore" (Daniel Lanois)
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Winner: Kevin Churko , "Disappearing" and "The Big Bang" (Simon Collins )
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Winner: City and Colour , "Waiting...", "Sleeping Sickness", "The Girl"
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Nathan Ferraro, "Never Again", "Change For You", "Unaware" (The Midway State )
Hedley , "Old School", "For The Nights I Can’t Remember" (with Dave Genn ), "Never Too Late" (with Greig Nori ) (Hedley )Alanis Morissette , "Underneath", "Not As We", "In Praise of the Vulnerable Man" (Alanis Morissette )Gordie Sampson , "When I Said I Would" (Whitney Duncan ), "Just A Dream" (Carrie Underwood ), "Davey Jones" (Gordie Sampson )Winner: Nickelback
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Nominated albums
Winner: Dark Horse Nickelback
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Winner: Running for the Drum Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Winner: Is It O.K. Serena Ryder
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Winner: Oceans Will Rise The Stills
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Winner: Ramblin’ Son , Julian Fauth
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Winner: Anouk Pennel and Stéphane Poirer, En concert dans la forêt des mal-aimés avec l’Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal , Pierre Lapointe
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John Cook, Kelly Ferguson, John James Audubon , Koko Bonaparte, Sugarbird , Paul Reddick
Phoebe Greenberg, George Fok, Daniel Fortin, Leda & St. Jacques, Productions l’Éloi, Pulse of the Planet Slim Williams
Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet, Mountain Meadows , Elliott Brood
Dallas Wehrle , Robyn Kotyk, Alex vs. Alex, Kensington Heights , Constantines Winner: Snacktime! Barenaked Ladies
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Winner: Ending Is Beginning Downhere
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Winner: Beethoven: Ideals Of The French Revolution , Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano
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Winner: Homage , James Ehnes
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Haydn: Six Sonatas for Piano , Anton Kuerti Schubert: Complete Piano Trios , The Gryphon TrioSchumann: Sonata in F#Minor & Humoreske , Angela Hewitt Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues opus 87 , David Jalbert Winner: Gloria! Vivaldi’s Angels , Ensemble Caprice
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Winner: Tous les sens , Ariane Moffatt
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Winner: Nostomania , DJ Brace presents The Electric Nosehair Orchestra
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Winner: Viva La Vida Coldplay
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Winner: Embracing Voices , Jane Bunnett
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A Bend in the River , Roberto Occhipinti Existential Detective , Barry Romberg's Random Access Large EnsembleRasstones , François Bourassa QuartetThe Sicilian Jazz Project , Michael Occhipinti Winner: Second Time Around , Oliver Jones
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Winner: Lucky , Molly Johnson
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Winner: Flavors of Entanglement Alanis Morissette
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Winner: Love at the End of the World Sam Roberts
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Winner: Proof of Love , Old Man Luedecke
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Winner: Chic Gamine Chic Gamine
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Winner: Africa to Appalachia , Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko
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The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun , George Dimitri SawaCairo to Toronto , Maryem & Ernie Tollar Contrabanda , Lubo and Kaba HoroShivaboom , Eccodek
Nominated releases
Winner: "Dangerous ", Kardinal Offishall
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Winner: "Flanders Fields Reflections", John Burge
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"From the Dark Reaches", T. Patrick Carrabré
"Manhattan Music", Bramwell Tovey
"Notes Towards A Poem That Can Never Be Written", Timothy Corlis
"Song of Songs", Sid Robinovitch Winner: Beautiful Life Doc Walker
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Winner: "Random Album Title ", Deadmau5
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Winner: Blue Road (Blue Rodeo )
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Winner: The Love Chronicles Divine Brown
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Winner: Not 4 Sale Kardinal Offishall
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Winner: "Everything", Humble
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Winner: Anthony Seck , "Honey Honey" (Feist )
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Compilation CD
A compilation album for the awards was released in March 2009
