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- 1 2 Sam Juric, "Why Music P.E.I. is moving away from gendered award categories" Archived 2022-06-16 at the Wayback Machine . CBC News Prince Edward Island, November 21, 2018.
- ↑ David Friend, "Daniel Lanois, Savannah Ré, Charlotte Cardin make long list of Polaris Music Prize" Archived 2021-11-25 at the Wayback Machine . The Globe and Mail , June 16, 2021.
- ↑ Peter Ellman, "Russell Louder: Think of Light" Archived 2022-06-16 at the Wayback Machine . Exclaim! , March 10, 2017.
- ↑ Amélie Revert, "Russell Louder et ses mélodies éblouissantes" Archived 2021-04-19 at the Wayback Machine . Métro , February 26, 2021.
- 1 2 Philippe Renaud, "Regard sur la pop théâtrale de Russell Louder" Archived 2022-06-16 at the Wayback Machine . Le Devoir , March 1, 2021.
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