The Canadian Folk Music Award for Ensemble of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best work by duos and bands in Canadian folk music and related genres. Albums officially credited to solo artists can be nominated for the award, in consideration of the collective work by all musicians participating in the recording.
Julian Taylor is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the band Staggered Crossing, he has continued to record and perform as the leader of the eponymous Julian Taylor Band since Staggered Crossing's breakup in 2007.
The SOCAN Songwriting Prize, formerly known as the ECHO Songwriting Prize, is an annual competition recognizing the best in Canadian emerging music, both anglophone and francophone.
The Juno Awards of 2017, honouring Canadian music achievements, were presented in Ottawa, Ontario the weekend of 1–2 April 2017. The ceremonies were held at the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata and televised on CTV with Bryan Adams and Russell Peters as co-hosts. The duo replaced Michael Bublé, who was originally scheduled to host the show.
William Prince is a Canadian folk and country singer-songwriter based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Housewife is the Canadian indie rock musical project of Brighid Fry based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its founding members are Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla, with a number of guest players joining them for live shows and recordings. Padilla left the band in late 2022.
The Lynnes, stylized as The LYNNeS, were a Canadian folk music duo, consisting of singer-songwriters Lynne Hanson and Lynn Miles. Hanson and Miles, each of whom was an established solo artist, had previously worked together as guest musicians on each other's albums, and began writing songs together in the mid-2010s before releasing Heartbreak Song for the Radio, their debut album as a duo, in 2018.
The 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards were presented on April 9 and 10, 2021, to honour achievements in folk music by Canadian artists in 2020. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the awards were presented in a virtual livestream rather than a physical gala.
The following musical events and releases that happened in 2021 in Canada.
Cassie and Maggie MacDonald are a sibling folk music duo from Nova Scotia. They are most noted for their 2016 album The Willow Collection, for which they won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Traditional Album at the 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2017, and were Juno Award nominees for Traditional Roots Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018.
Beòlach is a Canadian instrumental folk music group from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. They are most noted for their 2020 album All Hands, which was a Juno Award nominee for Traditional Folk Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021 and won two Canadian Folk Music Awards for Traditional Album of the Year and Instrumental Group of the Year at the 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards.
Marie-Ève Laure is the stage name of Marie-Ève Lapierre-Lemoyne, a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, who won the Canadian Folk Music Award for French Songwriter of the Year for her album Onze at the 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2021.
Amanda Rheaume is a Métis folk singer-songwriter from Canada.
The Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year is an annual music award, presented by the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the best albums in contemporary folk music by Canadian artists.
The Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Singer of the Year is an annual music award, presented by the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the best vocal performances in contemporary folk music by Canadian artists.
The Canadian Folk Music Award for English Songwriter of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best songwriting in Canadian folk music. Unlike many songwriting awards, the nomination is given in consideration of all of the songwriting on a whole album rather than singling out individual songs. Awards are also presented for French Songwriter of the Year and Indigenous Songwriter of the Year.
The Canadian Folk Music Award for Children's Album of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best children's music.
The Canadian Folk Music Award for French Songwriter of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best French-language songwriting. Unlike many songwriting awards, the nomination is given in consideration of all of the songwriting on a whole album rather than singling out individual songs. Awards are also presented for English Songwriter of the Year and Indigenous Songwriter of the Year.
The Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best songwriting by First Nations and Inuit artists. Unlike many songwriting awards, the nomination is given in consideration of all of the songwriting on a whole album rather than singling out individual songs. Awards are also presented for English Songwriter of the Year and French Songwriter of the Year.
Aysanabee is an Oji-Cree singer-songwriter from Canada, whose debut album Watin was released in 2022.
Reliever is the second studio album from Canadian singer-songwriter William Prince, released February 7, 2020 on Six Shooter Records.