Here's the latest information about the CFMA's - now less than one week away! TICKETS / RADIO / FLIGHTS etc.....

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Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that the Canadian Folk Music Awards ceremony is happening a week today, Saturday Dec. 1st, in the majestic Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. If you haven't already reserved tickets, you can do so by calling 1-800-385-FOLK. (Or if you're in Ottawa , call 613-730-2887.)
 
Tickets are just $40, and that includes a catered reception after the show. 
 
Also, if you haven't booked your plane ticket yet, I see that WestJet still has seat sale tickets to Ottawa from Vancouver and Calgary for $179-$189 each way. It's not too late! h
 
  
Folk Awards celebrate Canada 's many musical traditions…and the innovative artists who build on them!
 
The Canadian Folk Music Awards Ceremony Saturday, December 1st, 7 pm, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau QC
 
National CBC Radio Two broadcast of the ceremony December 7th, 8:00 pm (8:30 in Newfoundland ) on Canada Live with Ottawa host, Alan Neal
 
            Canada 's incredibly vibrant and diverse folk scene will take centre stage December 1st at the third annual Canadian Folk Music Awards ceremony in Gatineau , Quebec .
 
           The show features performances by Canadian Music Hall of Fame member Sylvia Tyson, Grammy-nominated acoustic ensemble The Duhks, Juno and Felix award-winning ex-Kashtin member Florent Vollant, Juno-winner Ian Tamblyn and Newfoundland legend Ron Hynes. The line-up is rounded out by last year's CFMA Best New/Emerging Artist winner T. Nile, up-and-coming Acadian ensemble Vishten and Indian world fusion ensemble Galitcha.
 
            This year's ceremony will be hosted in English and French by Shelagh Rogers of CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada and Benoit Bourque, the Juno Award-winning Quebecois musician known for his work with groups like Ad Vielle Que Pourra and Le Vent du Nord.   It will be broadcast nationally December 7th on CBC Radio Two's Canada Live. 
 
            Selected from a pool of over 400 submissions, the 79 nominees for this year's CFMAs exemplify the richness, diversity and innovation found in Canada 's folk music communities.  Among them are well-known names like Order of Canada officer Bruce Cockburn, acclaimed pop artist and David Bowie band alumnus Emm Gryner, Juno-winning Cuban music innovator AlexCuba, and Quebec traditional music favourites Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer. New discoveries include 18-year-old Kyrie Kristmanson, an artist of Veda Hille-like originality who's rumoured to play at least one song on manual typewriter. There's also Brian Thomas, a Celtic music virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer; and Jon Brooks, a singer-songwriter with a voice reminiscent of Steve Earle and an album of songs about the Canadian war experience.  
 
            Launched in Ottawa in 2005, the Canadian Folk Music Awards recognize Canada 's outstanding writers, producers and performers of traditional music and the artists who are expanding the genres in innovative and exciting ways. While the Junos celebrate Canada 's popular music success stories, the CFMAs honour the magnificent diversity of Canada 's musical heritage – from the musical traditions of Aboriginal Canada to Celtic, Acadian and traditional Quebecois styles; singer-songwriter music, blues, bluegrass and old-tyme country; and the myriad of global traditions brought to Canada by each new wave of immigration.  The CFMAs provide an opportunity to draw Canadians' attention to our most outstanding and often underexposed roots and world artists.
 
            CFMAs will be awarded this year in 18 categories, including "Best Album – Traditional" and "Best Album – Contemporary," "Young Performer of the Year" and "Pushing the Boundaries." 
 
            Like the Junos, the Canadian Folk Music Awards are judged by independent juries of industry experts, a separate jury for each category, and the results are tabulated by an independent chartered accountant.

Heather Kitching (copy/pasted from Maplepost - November 25/07)