The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night time

The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night time

The 2023 Juno Awards kicked off Saturday in Edmonton, the place 40 awards are being handed out to Canada’s high musical artists.

The ceremony — which comes forward of Monday night time’s major occasion, a reside broadcast hosted by Marvel actor Simu Liu — was emceed by Run The Burbs star and co-creator Andrew Phung and CBC Music radio host Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe.

The Weeknd took house a number of awards. He gained artist of the 12 months; songwriter of the 12 months and pop album of the 12 months for Daybreak FM; and single of the 12 months for Sacrifice. The worldwide famous person wasn’t within the room to just accept the awards, although he leads the 2023 Juno nominations with six nods. He beforehand gained artist of the 12 months in 2015, 2016 and 2021.

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On this picture launched on Might 23, The Weeknd performs for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, broadcast on Might 23, 2021 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Calif. (Wealthy Fury/Getty Photos for dcp)

Tenille Townes, who gained the night’s first award — nation album of the 12 months for Masquerades — spoke backstage, recalling the primary time she attended the Juno Awards 19 years in the past as an viewers member. She mentioned she dreamt of being onstage someday.

“[I] watched and simply dreamed of how cool it may very well be to be part of the present sometime, so I am feeling all of the full-circle vibes,” she advised CBC Information.

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Tenille Townes poses after successful nation album of the 12 months throughout the Juno Awards in Edmonton on Saturday. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Different early winners included Montreal singer-songwriter Rêve, and producer duo Banx and Ranx.

Rêve was backstage after successful dance recording of the 12 months when she discovered that the latter duo — who she collaborated with final 12 months — gained the award for breakthrough group of the 12 months. She set free an enthusiastic shriek.

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Rêve poses along with her award for dance recording of the 12 months throughout the Juno Awards in Edmonton on Saturday. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)

“I used to be ready for that!” she mentioned of her fellow Montreal musicians. “We’re so freaking pleased with one another. And so they simply took house a Juno. So we love, we love that.”

The final time they gained a Juno Award in 2010, Digging Roots consisted solely of husband and spouse duo Raven Kanatakta and ShoShona Kish. However their win on Saturday is “far sweeter, as a result of we introduced our son [Skye] on the journey,” Kanatakta advised CBC Information. The trio gained up to date Indigenous artist or group of the 12 months for his or her album Zhawenim.

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Digging Roots pose with an award for Up to date Indigenous Artist of the Yr throughout the Juno Awards in Edmonton on Saturday, March 11, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson (THE CANADIAN PRESS)

“The way in which that we create music, the three of us … we now have the household vibe, however on the similar time, Skye brings all of this rhythm, rhythm from the land, and simply informs the place the songs are gonna go,” Kanatakta added.

Saturday’s festivities embody performances from artists Dylan Sinclair, Devon Cole, Jean-Michel Blais and the night opened with a efficiency by The Bearhead Sisters. The in memoriam phase of the present will function a joint efficiency from Corb Lund, The Sadies and Shannon Johnson.

CBC Information will probably be updating this story with winners all through the night.

Nation album of the 12 months:
Tenille Townes, Masquerades
Excessive Valley, Means Again
Jade Eagleson, Honkytonk Revival
Orville Peck, Bronco 
The Reklaws, Good Ol’ Days

Underground dance single of the 12 months:
Greg Gow, I Knew Techno 
Bensley, Debonair
Blond:ish and Cameron Jack, Aye Aye
Fred Every part, The Time Is (Now)
Tiga, Simple 

Jazz album of the 12 months:
Renee Rosnes, Sorts of Love,
Ernesto Cervini, Pleasure
Lauren Falls, A Little Louder Now
Luis Deniz, El Tinajon
Rafael Zaldivar, Rumba 

Grownup different album of the 12 months:
The Sadies, Colder Streams
Altameda, Born Losers
Basia Bulat, The Backyard
Dan Mangan, Being Someplace
The Climate Station, How Is It That I Ought to Take a look at the Stars

Dance recording of the 12 months:
Rêve, Ctrl + Alt + Del
Bob Moses and Kasablanca, Afterglow
Grimes, Shinigami Eyes
Loud Luxurious feat. Kiddo, These Nights
Rezz, Spiral

Up to date roots album of the 12 months:
The Bros. Landreth,
Come Morning
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, O Glory
Lucky Ones, That Was You and Me
Shakura S’Aida, Maintain on to Love
The East Pointers, Home of Desires

Worldwide album of the 12 months:
Harry Types,
Harry’s Home
Ed Sheeran, =
Lil Nas X, Montero
Taylor Swift, Midnights
Taylor Swift, Purple (Taylor’s Model)

Up to date Indigenous artist or group of the 12 months:
Digging Roots,
Zhawenim
Aysanabee, Watin
Indian Metropolis, Code Purple
Julian Taylor, Past the Reservoir
Susan Aglukark, The Crossing

Breakthrough group of the 12 months:
Banx & Ranx
Hurt & Ease
Uncommon People
Tommy Lefroy
Wild Rivers

Conventional Indigenous artist or group of the 12 months:

The Bearhead Sisters, Unbreakable
Cikwes, kâkîsimo ᑳᑮᓯᒧᐤ
Iva & Angu, Katajjausiit
Joel Wooden, Mikwanak Kamôsakinat
Northern Cree, Ôskimacîtahowin: A New Starting

Grownup up to date album of the 12 months:
Michael Bublé, Larger 
Francois Klark, Journey E-book
Jann Arden, Descendant
Marc Jordan & Amy Sky, He Sang She Sang
Tyler Shaw, A Tyler Shaw Christmas

Classical album of the 12 months (small ensemble):
Elinor Frey and Rosa Barocca, carried out by Claude Lapalme, Early Italian Cello Concertos
Andrew Balfour and musica intima, Nagamo
ARC Ensemble, Hemsi: Chamber Works
Collectif9, Vagues et ombres
Suzie LeBlanc, Marie Nadeau-Tremblay, Vincent Lauzer, and Sylvain Bergeron, De la cour de Louis XIV à Shippagan! Chants traditionnels acadiens et airs de cour du XVIIe siècle

Walt Grealis Particular Achievement Award:
Ron Sakamoto

Reggae recording of the 12 months:
Kirk Diamond, Kairo McLean and Finn feat. Kairo McLean, Reggae Social gathering
Ammoye, Water
Celena, Like a Star
Exco Levi, Jah Love
Kairo McLean, Within the Streets

Classical album of the 12 months (solo artist):
Philip Chiu,
Fables
Bruce Liu, Winner of the 18th Worldwide Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competitors Warsaw 2021
David Jalbert, Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
Isabel Bayrakdarian, La Zingarella: By Romany Songland
James Ehnes, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

Classical album of the 12 months (solo artist):
Philip Chiu,
Fables
Bruce Liu, Winner of the 18th Worldwide Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competitors Warsaw 2021
David Jalbert, Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
Isabel Bayrakdarian, La Zingarella: By Romany Songland
James Ehnes, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

Conventional roots album of the 12 months:
Pharis & Jason Romero, Inform ‘Em You Have been Gold
Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves, Hurricane Clarice
Le Vent du Nord, 20 printemps
Mama’s Broke, Slender Line
The McDades, The Empress

Comedy album of the 12 months:
Jon Dore, A Individual Who’s Gingerbread
Courtney Gilmour, Let Me Maintain Your Child
Jackie Pirico, Splash Pad
Matt Wright, Right here Stay, Not a Cat
Zabrina Douglas, Issues Black Women Say — the Album

Instrumental album of the 12 months:
Esmerine, Every part Was Without end Till It Was No Extra
Canadian Brass, Canadiana
Exhausting Rubber Orchestra, Iguana
Jean-Michel Blais, Aubades
Stephan Moccio, Lionheart

Recording engineer of the 12 months:
Serban Ghenea
Derek Hoffman
George Seara
Gus van Go
Jason Dufour

Youngsters’s album of the 12 months
Stroll off the Earth and Romeo Eats, Stroll off the Earth & Romeo Eats, Vol. 2
Beppie, Good to Meet You
Jeremy and Jazzy, Say Hey
Splash’N Boots, I Am Love
Younger Maestro and Keysha Freshh, Maestro Recent Wes Presents: Julia the Nice

Classical composition of the 12 months
Bekah Simms, Bestiary I & II
Anthony Tan, An Total Augmented Sense of Properly-being
Keyan Emami, The Black Fish
Nicole Lizée, Prayers for Ruins
Vincent Ho, Supervillain Études/

Artist of the 12 months:
The Weeknd
Avril Lavigne
Lauren Spencer-Smith
Michael Bublé
Shawn Mendes

Album art work of the 12 months:
Ian Ilavsky and Maciek Szczerbowski for Every part was Without end Till it was no Extra, Esmerine
Emy Storey,  Becca McFarlane, Pamela Littky for Crybaby, Tegan and Sara
Jud Haynes.
Kee Avil, Lawrence Fafard for Crease, Kee Avil
Lights, Virgilio Tzaj, Matt Barnes for PEP, Lights

Up to date Christian/gospel album of the 12 months:
Jordan St. Cyr, Jordan St. Cyr
Dan Bremnes, Into the Wild
Daniel Ojo, Belief
Love & the End result, Solely Ever At all times
Tehillah Worship, The Church Will Rise,

Vocal jazz album of the 12 months:
Caity Gyorgy, That includes
Diana Panton, Blue
Laura Anglade and Sam Kirmayer, Venez donc chez moi
Nikki Yanofsky, Nikki by Starlight
The Ostara Challenge, The Ostara Challenge

Blues album of the 12 months
Angelique Francis, Lengthy River
Crystal Shawanda, Midnight Blues
Harrison Kennedy, Thanks for Tomorrow
Spencer Mackenzie, Preach to my Soul
The Harpoonist & the Axe Assassin, Stay on the King Eddy

Steel/arduous music album of the 12 months:
Voivod, Synchro Anarchy
Most cancers Bats, Psychic Jailbreak
Get the Shot, Cruel Destruction
Cranium Fist, Paid in Full
Wake, Thought Kind Descent

Classical album of the 12 months (massive ensemble)
Performed by Nicolas Ellis, that includes Marina Thibeault, Viola Borealis, Orchestre de l’Agora
Performed by Alexander Shelley, Clara – Robert – Johannes: Lyrical Echoes, Canada’s Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra
Performed by Matthias Maute, that includes Karina Gauvin, Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Ensemble Caprice, Ensemble Vocal Arts-Quebec
Performed by Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen – Arvo Pärt: Symphonie No. 4, ‘Los Angeles,’ I Musici de Montréal
Performed by Mark Vuorinen, Radiant Daybreak: Music for Introduction and Christmas, The Elora Singers

MusiCounts Impressed Minds Ambassador Award:
Kevin Drew

Songwriter of the 12 months: 
The Weeknd
Faouzia
Tate McRae
Tenille Townes
Tobi

Jazz album of the 12 months (group):
Florian Hoefner Trio, Desert Bloom
Andrew Rathbun Quintet, Semantics
BadBadNotGood, Discuss Reminiscence
Carn Davidson 9, The Historical past of Us
Mark Kelso & the Jazz Exiles, The Dragon’s Tail

Various album of the 12 months:
Blue Rev, Alvvays
Duality, Luna Li
Sewn Again Collectively, Ombiigizi
The Unraveling of Puptheband, Pup
Tongues, Tanya Tagaq

Producer of the 12 months: 
Akeel Henry
Banx & Ranx
Kaytranada
Mike Sensible
Murda Beatz

Rock album of the 12 months:
Alexisonfire, Otherness
Billy Expertise, Disaster of Religion
Nickelback, Get Rollin’
The Sheepdogs, Outta Sight
Three Days Grace, Explosions

International music album of the 12 months:
Lenka Lichtenberg, Thieves of Desires
Ghalia Benali, Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian, Within the Footsteps of Rumi
Pierre Kwenders, José Louis and the Paradox of Love
Ruby Singh, Vox.Infold

Pop album of the 12 months:
The Weeknd,
Daybreak FM
Alessia Cara, Within the Meantime
Avril Lavigne, Love Sux
Carly Rae Jepsen, The Loneliest Time
Tate McRae, I Used to Suppose I Might Fly

Francophone album of the 12 months:
Les Louanges, Crash
Ariane Roy, Medium plaisir
Daniel Bélanger, Mercure en mai
Hubert Lenoir, Pictura de ipse: Musique directe
Lisa LeBlanc, Chiac Disco
Wesli, Tradisyon

Group of the 12 months:
Arkells
Arcade Hearth
Billy Expertise
Metric
The Reklaws

Rap single of the 12 months:
Kaytranada and Anderson .Paak, Twin Flame
6ixBuzz and Pengz, Alejandro Sosa
Dom Vallie, Been Himma
Freddie Dredd, Wrath
Nav, Flawed Choices

Music video of the 12 months:
Floria Sigismondi for Sam Smith and Kim Petras, Unholy
Emma Higgins for Jessie Reyez, Fraud
Karena Evans for Chlöe, Have Mercy
Mayumi Yoshida for Amanda Sum, Totally different Than Earlier than
Sterling Larose for SonReal and Lily Moore, Bear in mind Me for Me

Digital album of the 12 months:
Teen Daze,
Inside
Mecha Maiko, Not OK
Odonis Odonis, Spectrums
Rezz, Nightmare on Rezz Avenue 2 Combine
Wealthy Aucoin, Artificial Season One

Single of the 12 months:
The Weeknd,
Sacrifice
Avril Lavigne, Chew Me
Preston Pablo and Banx & Ranx, Flowers Want Rain
Shawn Mendes, When You are Gone
Tate McRae, She’s All I Wanna Be

Conventional R&B/soul recording of the 12 months:
Savannah Ré feat. Dylan Sinclair,
Final One
Daniel Caesar feat. BadBadNotGood, Please Do Not Lean
Jon Vinyl, Palisade
Secure, All I Want
TheHonestGuy, How one can Make Love

 

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