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Saskatchewan Music Awards

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2018 Saskatchewan Music Awards (November 25, 2018)
2018 Awards Show details

Alternative Artist of the Year

sponsored by Prairie Dog and Planet S

  • WINNER: Close Talker

  • Nominees: Bears in Hazenmore, Megan Nash, Nick Faye & The Deputies, The Garrys

 

Avant-Garde/Experimental Artist of the Year
sponsored by CFCR and CJTR

  • WINNER: respectfulchild

  • Nominees: Factor Eight, Jesse Brown, Marie-Véronique Bourque, Steve Leidal, Wolf Willow

 

Country Artist of the Year

sponsored by 620 CKRM

  • WINNER: Jess Moskaluke

  • Nominees: Blake Berglund, Jay Semko, Justin LaBrash, Tenille Arts

 

Electronic Artist of the Year
sponsored by SaskInteractive

  • WINNER: Natural Sympathies

  • Nominees: Economics, LOA, Sölus-Sun, VBRTR

Indigenous Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Joey Stylez

  • Nominees: BrownCanShine, Dale Mac, Marentin Fehr, Yellowsky

Hip Hop Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Factor Chandelier

  • Nominees: Def3, Pimpton, Samurai Champs, Shawn Jobin

 

Metal/Loud Artist of the Year

  • WINNERS (TIE): Altars of Grief, and Shooting Guns

  • Nominees: Blue Youth, Hell Hounds, Soul Mates

 

Rock/Pop Artist of the Year
sponsored by Sawchyn Guitars

  • WINNER: The Sheepdogs

  • Nominees: Bombargo, One Bad Son, Surf Dads, The Pistolwhips

 

Roots/Folk Artist of the Year
sponsored by the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC)

  • WINNER: Kacy & Clayton

  • Nominees: Colter Wall, Ellen Froese, Jeffery Straker, Rosie & the Riveters

 

Single of the Year
sponsored by Creative Saskatchewan

  • WINNER: Hunter Brothers, Born and Raised   

  • Nominees: Hunter Brothers, Those Were The Nights; Colter Wall, Kate McGannon; Jess Moskaluke, Camouflage; Jess Moskaluke, Past the Past; vbnd, Thoughts of You; Tenille Arts, Cold Feet; Tenille Arts, Moment of Weakness; The Sheepdogs, I've Got a Hole Where My Heart Should Be; The Sheepdogs, Nobody   

Breaking Borders Award
presented by the Derek Bachman Foundation

  • WINNER: Megan Nash

  • There are no nominees announced in this category.

 

Venue of the Year
sponsored by Big Dog 92-7

  • WINNERS (TIE): Ness Creek Music Festival, Big River; and The Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon

  • Nominees: Blenders Music Series at the Lyric Theatre, Swift Current; Capitol Music Club, Saskatoon; The Exchange, Regina

 

Producer of the Year
sponsored by the Recording Arts Institute of Saskatoon

  • WINNER: Bart McKay

  • Nominees: Factor Chandelier, Jason Plumb, Jonathan Cruz and Leonard Chan of VBRTR, Ryan Andersen

 

Industry Achievement Award
sponsored by the Government of Saskatchewan - Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport

  • WINNERS (TIE): 91.3FM CJTR, Regina Community Radio; and Shann Gowan

  • Nominees: Lucy James - Jam Street Music Sessions; Susan Busse; The Broadway Theatre; Trifecta

The Best Saskatchewan Albums of 2018

The winner of this category is the Album of the Year.

  • WINNER: Belle Plaine, Malice, Mercy, Grief and Wrath

  • TOP 10 (includes ties): Jack Semple, Can't Stop This Love; Colter Wall, Songs of The Plains; Hook & Nail, Ghosts of Taylorton; Rosie & The Riveters, Ms. Behave; Marie-Véronique Bourque, une porte s'ouvre; Alex Bent + the Emptiness, Vanilla Blue; Bears In Hazenmore, Atlas; LOA, Tide EP; Untimely Demise, No Promise of Tomorrow; Into Eternity, The Sirens; Dayda Banks & Filth the Enabler, Emulator; Altars of Grief, Iris

  • Additional long list albums: Abscission, Palimpsest; Anna Haverstock, Coasting In Dreams; Autopilot, Afterglow; Black Hell Oil, Choke on This; Blue Youth, Dead Forever; Brian Baggett, Bookmarks; Conrad Bigknife, A Tribute to Country Legends; Dagan Harding Band, I Learned How; Dayda Banks, Vagabonds; Del Suelo, The Musician's Compass: A 12 Step Program; Eli Barsi & Doris Daley, One Upon the West; Etienne Fletcher, Side A / Face A; Factor Chandelier, Wisdom Teeth; Hell Hounds, Paint the World; HYV, Times Are Tough; Jay Semko, Never Sent; Jesse Brown, Sadness; Joey Stylez, The Star Chief; LTP, Zenith; Nick Faye & The Deputies, Stumbling Distance; Pimpton, The Pimpton LP; The Sheepdogs, Changing Colours; Shooting Guns, Another WolfCop OST; Sleepwreck, Hypersigil Megaprayer; Snake River, Tread on to the Unknown You; Toria Summerfield, Planet X; West of Mabou, The Bridge; The Wolfe, Strange Words; Yellowsky, Mixed Medicine

2019 Saskatchewan Music Awards (November 28, 2019)
2019 Awards Show details

Alternative Artist of the Year
sponsored by CFCR and CJTR

  • WINNER: Foxwarren 

  • Nominees: Bears in Hazenmore, Close Talker, Ponteix, Reignwolf

Country Artist of the Year

  • WINNERS (TIE): Hunter Brothers, and Tenille Arts 

  • Nominees: Amy Nelson, Chris Henderson, Justin LaBrash

 

Electronic Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Rumpus

  • Nominees: Carson Shmyr, Duchess of Dub, Patrick Moon Bird, VBRTR

 

Experimental or Contemporary Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Patient Hands 

  • Nominees: Del Suelo, Jesse Brown, Sylvia Chave (Singing with Sylvia), Wolf Willow

 

Hip Hop Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Samurai Champs 

  • Nominees: Alex Bent + the Emptiness, Eekwol and T-Rhyme, Pimpton, UNLTD

 

Metal/Loud Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Untimely Demise

  • Nominees: Arcana Kings, Blue Youth, Man Meat, Shooting Guns, The Jump Off

 

Rock/Pop Artist of the Year

sponsored by Nimbus School of Recording & Media

  • WINNER: Reignwolf 

  • Nominees: Autopilot, Bombargo, Close Talker, Ponteix

 

Roots/Folk Artist of the Year

  • WINNERS (TIE): Kacy & Clayton, and The Dead South

  • Nominees: Belle Plaine, Gunner & Smith , Poor Nameless Boy, Twin Fiddles

 

Indigenous Artist of the Year

sponsored by Shift Development

  • WINNER: Eekwol and T-Rhyme 

  • Nominees: Conrad Bigknife, Donny Parenteau, Duchess of Dub, Patrick Moon Bird

 

Single of the Year

  • Winner: Hunter Brothers, Lost

  • Nominees: Bombargo, Oxygen; Foxwarren, Sunset Canyon; Foxwarren, Everything Apart; Hunter Brothers, Northern Lights; Reignwolf, Black and Red; Reignwolf, Over & Over; Samara Yung, Swerve; Tenille Arts, Call You Names; Tenille Arts, I Hate This; The Dead South, Diamond Ring; W3apons, Off the Top of My Heart

 

Industry Achievement Award

sponsored by the Organization Of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC)

  • WINNER: The Broadway Theatre  

  • Nominees: Eliza Doyle; Grind Central Records; Jay Semko; Susan Busse; Trifecta Sound Co

 

Producer of the Year

sponsored by SOCAN

  • WINNER: Mario Lepage

  • Nominees: Bart McKay, Brad Prosko, Close Talker, SJ Kardash

 

Venue of the Year

sponsored by Entandem

  • WINNER: The Broadway Theatre 

  • Nominees: Blenders Events, The Happy Nun Café, Saskatchewan Jazz Festival - TD Mainstage, The Exchange

 

Music Video of the Year

  • WINNER: Dylan Hryciuk, Versa Films for Petite Fleur, artist Ponteix

  • Nominees: Amy Mantyka, Play Creative Media for El Fin Del Mundo ft. Ramon Fernandez, artist Def3 & Late Night Radio;
    Crushed Rockets (Sherona Sinclair, Director/Editor; Aaron Sinclair, Producer) for Seeker, artist Megan Nash;
    Dustin Wilson and Zach Wilson, Two Brothers Films for Diamond Ring, artist The Dead South;
    Dylan Hryciuk, Versa Films for Faux Pas, artist Ponteix

 

Breaking Borders Award
presented by The Derek Bachman Foundation

  • WINNERS (two): Reignwolf, and respectfulchild

  • There are no nominees announced in this category.

 

The Best Saskatchewan Albums of the Year
The winner of this category is the Album of the Year.

  • WINNER: The Dead South, Sugar & Joy

  • TOP 10 (includes ties): Amy Nelson, Good Intentions; Robot Hive, Prophylaxis; Hunter Brothers, State of Mind; Reignwolf, Hear Me Out; Close Talker, How Do We Stay Here?; Foxwarren, Foxwarren; Kacy & Clayton, Carrying On; Despite The Reverence, Plethora; Alex Bent + the Emptiness, Baby; Dayda Banks, We Should Go to Japan; Ellen Froese, Fightin' Words; Eekwol and T-Rhyme, For Women, By Women; Too Soon Monsoon, Waves: We Provide What We Absorb, We Absorb What We Provide; Chris Henderson, Point Of View

  • Additional Long List Albums: Arcana Kings, Lions As Ravens; Autopilot, Afterglow; Brian Sklar, Brian; Christopher Sleightholm, Last Year's Winter; Ev Thompson, God Save The Crown; Hattie, Séance; Herb & the Humans, Fractured Stars in Empty Bars; Hoodoo Mafia, G-Swamp; James Gates, Plans; Jen & John (Jen Lane & John Antoniuk), II; Kalem Moses, Gift of Desperation; Kearstin Pfeifer, The Road Untold; Kirkland Woods, Both Sides; Patient Hands, Stoic; Patrick Moon Bird, Useless.; Ponteix, Bastion; Poor Nameless Boy, Wake Up Call; Ritual Rabbits, Somehow Never Again; Samurai Champs, Cabernet Sauvignon; Shooting Guns, Sports Drink EP; Sylvia Chave, Shine; The Whiskey Jerks, Baba Was A Bootlegger; The Won'ts, Weird Weekend; Ugly Again, Power Nap; Ygretz, Mel Wide

2020 Saskatchewan Music Awards (January 24, 2021)
2020 Awards Show details

Alternative Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Close Talker

  • Nominees: Ava Wild, Natural Sympathies, The Garrys, W3APONS

Country Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Tenille Arts

  • Nominees: Hunter Brothers, Jordyn Pollard, Justin LaBrash, Samara Yung, Shantaia

 

Electronic Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: RUMPUS

  • Nominees: Natural Sympathies, Origin of Spin, Parab Poet, Patient Hands, Patrick Moon Bird

Experimental/Contemporary Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: The Garrys

  • Nominees: ADEOLUWA, éemi, Jesse Brown, Patient Hands, Toria Summerfield

 

Hip Hop Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Factor Chandelier

  • Nominees: Alex Bent + the Emptiness, Dayda Banks, InfoRed, Origin of Spin

Indigenous Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: The North Sound

  • Nominees: InfoRed, Patrick Moon Bird, Too Soon Monsoon, Yvonne St.Germaine

 

Metal/Loud Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: The Basement Paintings

  • Nominees: Black Thunder, Dream Creeps, Midnight Gallows, Mike Froh, The Moon Runners

 

Rock/Pop Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: W3APONS

  • Nominees: Davy Sage, Shirley & The Pyramids, Too Soon Monsoon, velours

 

Roots/Folk Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Jeffery Straker

  • Nominees: Ellen Froese, Gunner & Smith, JJ Voss, The North Sound

 

Producer of the Year

  • WINNER: Bart McKay

  • Nominees: Barrett Ross, Chris Dimas, Factor Chandelier, Ryan Andersen

 

Music Video of the Year

  • WINNER: Dylan Hryciuk - Versa Films for "Blessed Be," Spiritbox

  • Nominees: Andrew Parry for "Scaredy Cat," Marissa Burwell; Dylan Hryciuk - Versa Films for "Summer Haze," velours; Mitch Goetz for "Getta Say," Laska; Sean Xiao He for "Nevertheless," Zayd; Thoen Brothers for "Drum Machine," RUMPUS

 

Single of the Year

  • WINNER: "Somebody Like That," Tenille Arts

  • Nominees: "Country Girls," Jess Moskaluke; "Halfway Home," Jess Moskaluke; "Hard Dirt," Hunter Brothers; "Notes from Tom," Jesse Brown and Tom Merrall

Industry Achievement

  • WINNER: Broadway Theatre

  • Nominees: Eliza Doyle, Trifecta Sound Co, 91.3FM CJTR, Saskatchewan Jazz Festival

Venue of the Year

  • WINNER: Broadway Theatre

  • Nominees: Coors Event Centre, TCU Place Sid Buckwold Theatre, The Exchange, The Happy Nun

The Best Saskatchewan Albums of the Year
The winner of this category is the Album of the Year.

  • WINNER: Tenille Arts, “Love, Heartbreak, & Everything in Between”

  • TOP 10 (includes ties): 3 Moonjask, Lunar Elixir (Saskatoon); Aaron Karpinka, Tender Heart (Saskatoon); Ellen Froese & Campbell Woods, Farm Boy Sings The Blues (Saskatoon / Ottawa); Factor Chandelier, First Storm (Saskatoon); The Garrys, Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Original Score) (Saskatoon); Jay & Jo, Victory (Honeymoon); Jesse Brown, Where To? (Saskatoon); JJ Voss, Come Along With Me (Regina); Marshall Burns, Dogs and Booze (Regina); Midnight Gallows, Attack Warning Red (Regina); The North Sound, As The Stars Explode (Saskatoon); Saintvicious, Saintvicious (Saskatoon); Skizza, Things I Found (Saskatoon); Yvonne St. Germaine, Sorrow Road (Saskatoon)

  • Additional Long List Albums: ADEOLUWA, After Bells and Whistles (Regina); Arcana Kings, Lions As Ravens (Regina); The Basement Paintings, Antipodes (Saskatoon); Bex, You'll Be Here Someday (Saskatoon); Black Thunder, La Fine Creata (Regina); Dex Riley, Body (Saskatoon); Doubt It, Dang It (Regina); Dumb Angel, Dumb Angel (Saskatoon); Dylan Jules Cooper, Summer (Saskatoon); Fabric YXE & Dayda Banks, Leaving Neverland (Saskatoon); Hoodoo, The LizardMang EP (Regina); jj white, Rewind (Saskatoon); Jon Carteri, Road Trip to Mars (Regina); Kay the Aquanaut & Maki, The Nautical Blue (Saskatoon / Kamloops); Keiran Semple, Chester (Regina); Legends, Legends (Regina); LTP, Singularity (Regina); Natural Sympathies, Porous (Regina); Origin of Spin, Abstract Perception (Regina); Patient Hands, Stasis (Saskatoon); Patrick Moon Bird, USEFUL. (Prince Albert); Pimpton, TUNNELZ (Regina); The Radiation Flowers, Stuck in a Maze (Saskatoon); Shirley & The Pyramids, A New American Classic (Saskatoon); The Steadies, Tiro de Leone (Saskatoon); Theo Maczek, Harvest The Sunrise (Saskatoon); Toria Summerfield, From Her Rib (Saskatoon)

2021 Saskatchewan Music Awards (held January 20, 2022)
2021 Awards Show details

Alternative Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Megan Nash

  • Nominees: Carson Shmyr, Slow Down Molasses, The Garrys, The Steadies

 

Country Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Jess Moskaluke

  • Nominees: Amanda Hagel, Ches Anthony, Hunter Brothers, Munro & Patrick

Electronic Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: RUMPUS

  • Nominees: Ava Wild & Merky Waters, Nige B, Patrick Moon Bird, Theo Noble

Experimental/Contemporary Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Factor Eight

  • Nominees: ADEOLUWA, Jesse Brown, Marie-Véronique Bourque, The Faps

Hip Hop Artist of the Year 

  • WINNER: soso

  • Nominees: Alex Bent + the Emptiness, Ev Thompson, Pimpton, RaytheNihilist, Rooky 

Metal/Loud Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Flash Back

  • Nominees: Alien to the Ignorant, Before & Apace, Swayze, Tyler Gilbert

R&B Artist of the Year 

  • WINNER: vbnd

  • Nominees: Ariel, Emanali, MELODNA, Namoo Nara, People of the Sun, TOVA 

Rock/Pop Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: The Garrys

  • Nominees: Étienne Fletcher, Megan Nash, Scott Klein, velours, W3APONS

Roots/Folk Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: Jeffery Straker

  • Nominees: Andino Suns, Jay & Jo, Last Birds, The North Sound, Wolf Willow

Indigenous Artist of the Year

  • WINNER: The North Sound

  • Nominees: Jarrid Lee, The Northwest Kid, vbnd, Yvonne St.Germaine

Music Video of the Year

  • WINNER: Dylan Hryciuk - Versa Films for Spiritbox, “Hurt You”

  • Nominees: Dylan Hryciuk - Versa Films for Jeffery Straker, "Ready to Be Brave"; Dylan Hryciuk - Versa Films for velours, "Whatever That Means"; Gavin Baird for Alex Bent + the Emptiness, "2sides"; Play Creative for Megan Nash & the Best of Intentions, "Chew Quietly / Clean Slate"; RAKK Productions, cinematographer Ryley Konechney for Minda Donaldo, "Remember December"; Tanner Goetz for Jess Moskaluke, "Mapdot"

Single of the Year

WINNER: Tesher x Jason Derulo, “Jalebi Baby”

Nominees: Hunter Brothers, “Been A Minute”; Hunter Brothers, “Diamonds”; Jess Moskaluke, “Nothin' I Don't Love About You”; Jesse Brown & Rich Batsford, “Whispered Winds”; Nowujalo, “Wake Up”; Shantaia, “Had A Good Weekend”; The Sunset Kids, “I Wanna Be”; vbnd feat. Katie Tupper and The Soulmate Collective, “Slowly Starting to Take Form”; W3APONS, “Bye Baby Gone”

Indigenous Music Achievement

WINNER: Sheryl Kimbley

There are no nominees announced in this category.

Industry Achievement

WINNER: Eliza Doyle, CAMP SASK ARTS

Nominees: Broadway Theatre, Dale McArthur, Grey Records, Songs for Nature Team

Producer of the Year

WINNER: Bart McKay

Nominees: Chris Dimas, Factor Eight, Hal Schrenk, Josh Palmer

Venue of the Year

WINNER: Broadway Theatre

Nominees: Conexus Arts Centre, Hanks Tavern, The Happy Nun

The Best Saskatchewan Albums of the Year

The winner of this category is the Album of the Year.

  • WINNER: The Hunter Brothers, “Been a Minute”

  • TOP 10 (includes ties):  Jake Vaadeland - Retro Man; Jeffery Straker - Just Before Sunrise; Jess Moskaluke- The Demos; vbnd - Scum Funk; The Garrys - Get Thee to a Nunnery; Seven Mile Sun - Light In The Dark; Flash Back - Wide Awake; Amanda Hagel - Be the Light; Marie-Véronique Bourque - Entre Québec & Saskatchewan; Wolf Willow- Old Guitars & Shooting Stars; Munro & Patrick - Give Me Your Rain; The Saskatchewan All Stars Big Band - The Saskatchewan Suite; Ava Wild and Merky Waters – Existing; Andino Suns - 9/11; Jeff D Michel – Back to the Moon; Tucker Lane– Random Fireworks on a Beach Obscured by Trees; Karissa Hoffart - Life of Mine

  • Additional Long List Albums: A R I E, Misconceptions; Alien to the Ignorant, A Dying Art; Ariel, Libra; Beach Body, Walking Holiday; Blume Hinges, Build Your Castle Inside of a Mountain; Ches Anthony, Stories From Yesterday and Today; Étienne Fletcher, Entre-deux; Ev Thompson, Roller Coaster; The Helpless, The Helpless; Last Birds, Last Birds; Marie-Claire, From the Red Room; Peace Flag Ensemble, Noteland; People of the Sun, Last Day of Summer; Ritual Rabbits, The Middle of Somewhere; Skip Jr. Campbell & Dream Creeps, Skip Jr. Campbell & Dream Creeps; Slow Down Molasses, Minor Deaths; Trash Hawks, Being Ill; Tyler Gilbert, The Fallen; W3APONS, Adios Radio

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