Check out FACTOR-funded nominees of the 2020 Canadian Folk Music Awards!
The highlighted albums are FACTOR-funded.
Traditional Album of the Year
Le Diable à Cinq – Debout!
Bruce Cockburn – Crowing Ignites
Ian & Sylvia – The Lost Tapes
Pharis & Jason Romero – Bet On Love
Beòlach – All Hands
Contemporary Album of the Year
Catherine MacLellan – COYOTE
The East Pointers – Yours To Break
Joe Nolan – Drifters
Mike McKenna Jr. – At the Edge of the World
Basia Bulat – Are You in Love?
William Prince – Reliever
The Dead South – Sugar & Joy
Stephen Fearing – The Unconquerable Past
Children’s Album of the Year
Ginalina – Small But Mighty
Claire Ness – Broccoli Farm
Spencer Burton – The Mountain Man
Henri Godon – Tous musiciens
Charlie Hope – Goodnight To You All: Traditional Lullabies from Ireland and the UK
Traditional Singer of the Year
Kevin Harvey (of Durham County Poets) – Hand me Down Blues
Mark Manning (of Rum Ragged) – The Thing About Fish
Mike Bravener – Depends Upon The Pay Traditional Miramichi and New Brunswick Folk Songs
Pharis Romero (of Pharis & Jason Romero) – Bet On Love
Lou Natale – Workin’ the Mystery
Contemporary Singer of the Year
Catherine MacLellan – COYOTE
Coco Love Alcorn – Rebirth
Tim Chaisson (of The East Pointers) – Yours To Break
Basia Bulat – Are You in Love?
William Prince – Reliever
Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year
Nick Hornbuckle – 13 or So
Marc Atkinson – Solo
Benjamin Barrile – Esperando el Alba
Natalie MacMaster – Sketches
Gordon Grdina – Prior st
Instrumental Group of the Year
Rhizome – Double capture
Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow – Safar-E-Daroon
Jessica Deutsch and Ozere – Traces
Emilyn Stam and John David Williams – Honeywood
Beòlach – All Hands
English Songwriter(s) of the Year
Coco Love Alcorn – Rebirth
Julian Taylor – The Ridge
Basia Bulat – Are You in Love?
Sarah Jane Scouten – Confessions
William Prince – Reliever
Pharis & Jason Romero – Bet On Love
French Songwriter(s) of the Year
Flavie Léger-Roy (of Flavie) – Ce chapeau est trop grand pour moi
Raphaël Delahaye (of MONSIEUR RAPH) – LE SENS DE LA DÉRIVE
Alexandre Poulin – Nature humaine
Guillaume Arsenault – La partie de moi qui tremble
Marie-Ève Laure – Onze
Indigenous Songwriter(s) of the Year
Leela Gilday – North Star Calling
Crystal Shawanda – Church House Blues
A.W. Cardinal (of Blue Moon Marquee) – Bare Knuckles & Brawn
Jason & Nadia Burnstick (of Burnstick) – Kîyânaw
Riit – ataataga
Vocal Group of the Year
Kennedy Road – A Little Fight Left Yet
Big Little Lions – Inside Voice
Beauséjour – Beauséjour
The Barrel Boys – Mainline
Pharis & Jason Romero – Bet On Love
Ensemble of the Year
Sultans of String – Refuge
Sussex – The Ocean Wide
The Dead South – Sugar & Joy
Pharis & Jason Romero – Bet On Love
OKAN – Sombras
Solo Artist of the Year
Catherine MacLellan – COYOTE
Julian Taylor – The Ridge
Lynn Miles – We’ll Look For Stars
William Prince – Reliever
Riit – ataataga
World Album of the Year
Mazacote – Patria
Okavango African Orchestra – Africa Without Borders
Zal Sissokho – Kora flamenca
OKAN – Sombras
Aviva Chernick – La Serena
New/Emerging Artist(s) of the Year
Maya Rae – Can You See Me?
Noah Derksen – America, Dreaming
Rum Ragged – The Thing About Fish
Emily Triggs – Middletown
Emily Rockarts – Little Flower
Marie-Ève Laure – Onze
Producer(s) of the Year
Chris McKhool and John ‘Beetle’ Bailey – Refuge (Sultans of String)
Roy Forbes – Edge of Blue (Roy Forbes)
Dave Clarke, Bill Garrett – Coming Home (Steel Rail)
Marc Jenkins – Bet On Love (Pharis & Jason Romero)
Dayna Manning – Morning Light (Dayna Manning)
Oliver Schroer Pushing the Boundaries Award
The Henrys – Paydirt
The East Pointers – Yours To Break
Mélisande [Électrotrad] – Les myriades
Aerialists – Dear Sienna
Riit – ataataga
Young Performer(s) of the Year
Quin With One N – Out of the Blue
Paige Penney – Watch Out For Your Step
Maya Rae – Can You See Me?
Moscow Apartment – Better Daughter
The Gilberts – The Gilberts: One
Single of the Year
Leela Gilday – “K’eintah Natse Ju”
The East Pointers – “Wintergreen”
Burnstick – “Some Kind of Hell”
Craig Cardiff – “Yellowknife”
William Prince – “The Spark”