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First slate of ECMAs handed out ahead of Saturday's main event - CBC.ca

First slate of ECMAs handed out ahead of Saturday's main event - CBC.ca

First slate of ECMAs handed out ahead of Saturday's main event - CBC.ca
Jul 11, 2020 1 min, 10 secs

Longtime indie-rock favourite Wintersleep from Nova Scotia took home both group and rock recording titles of the year for their seventh album, In The Land Of.

Baker won folk recording of the year for Forever Overhead, and video of the year for the song All Hands.

Jazz pianist Florian Hoefner of Newfoundland also took home two awards for First Spring: instrumental and jazz recordings of the year.

From Prince Edward Island, the East Pointers won contemporary roots recording for their latest album Yours to Break, and Summerside-born Paul Bernard received a Stompin' Tom award Saturday morning.

April Wine's Myles Goodwyn, born in New Brunswick and raised in Nova Scotia, took home blues recording of the year for Myles Goodwyn and Friends of the Blues 2.

Also from New Brunswick, celebrated soprano Measha Brueggergosman won the Directors' Special Achievement Award, while The East took home media outlet of the year.

Other genre awards included Rich Aucoin's Release for electronic recording of the year, Neon Dreams taking pop recording with Sweet Dreams Till Sunbeams, R&B/soul recording to Laura Roy for Forte, and Jacobus (Radio Radio's Jacques Alphonse Doucet) going solo to win rap/hip-hop recording with Caviar.

In the industry awards, CBC's Bill Roach of Weekend Mornings took home media person of the year, while Celtic Colours International Festival won event of the year and St.

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