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CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR 2011!
- DEADLINE IS
THURSDAY, JUNE 30TH!
OTTAWA - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011 - The Canadian
Folk Music Awards (CFMAs)
would like to remind everyone that submissions are
now open for the 2011
edition. The June 30th deadline is fast approaching!!
For more information please visit www.folkawards.ca or www.prixfolk.ca
Only fifteen days left
for all Canadian folk, roots and world musicians to
submit their recordings
released between June 15, 2010 and June 14, 2011,
for the SEVENTH ANNUAL
CFMAs. The awards, which celebrate and promote
Canadian Folk Music in all its
forms, will be handed out at a gala evening
ceremony to be held this year at
the Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria College,
University of Toronto on Sunday,
December 4th.
ARTISTS CAN APPLY DIRECTLY ONLINE or by downloading the
submissions form at
http://canadianfolkmusicawards.ca/eligibility/application/
and each artist
can apply to multiple categories appropriate to their music.
The CFMAs have also announced that this year they will be adding the
new
"UNSUNG HERO / TRAVAILLEUR DE L'OMBRE" award in recognition of
the
exceptional contribution of an individual, group, or organization to
the
Canadian folk music scene. The recipient will be selected by a
separate
five-member jury, from the region where the 2011 awards will take
place - in
this case, Central Canada, which includes Ontario, Quebec and
Nunavut. For
further details please visit
www.folkawards.ca.
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE is Thursday, June 30th,
2011.
MORE ABOUT CFMAs
The mission of the Canadian Folk Music Awards
is to celebrate and promote
Canadian Folk Music in all its forms. Until their
creation in 2005, there
existed no awards to celebrate the breadth and depth
of folk music in
Canada. Awards such as the Junos, East Coast Music Awards or
the Western
Canada Music Awards include a few categories that apply to folk
and roots
music, but without as broad a view of the genre. The judging
process is
similar to that of the two-stage elimination model used by the
Junos via a
randomly selected jury drawn from the folk music
community.
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For more information, photos, interviews, please
contact:
Media Contact: Beverly Kreller
SPEAK Music
bev@speak-music.com
416.922.3620
Canadian Folk Music Awards
1111 Bank
Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3X4
info@folkawards.ca
1-800-385-3655