The Juno Awards of 2009 honoured music industry achievements in Canada in the latter part of 2007 and in most of 2008. These ceremonies were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada during the weekend ending 29 March 2009.
Loverboy was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and Sarah McLachlan received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award. Long-time broadcast executive Fred Sherratt, a former CHUM Limited executive, received the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award.
Events Preliminary award-related events began on 26 March 2009. The following day featured a Welcome Reception at the Commodore Ballroom and a Juno Cup ice hockey game at the UBC Thunderbird Arena.
Most awards were announced at a Gala Dinner and Awards which was a restricted-access, non-televised event at Vancouver's Westin Bayshore Hotel on 28 March 2009. The only multiple-category winner at that event was The Stills who won New Group of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year (Oceans Will Rise). Kardinal Offishall's single "Dangerous" was awarded Single of the Year, over competition from songs by established major artists such as Michael Bublé, Céline Dion and Nickelback.
Primary ceremonies
The primary awards ceremony on 29 March 2009 was telecast by CTV from General Motors Place and hosted for the second consecutive year by Russell Peters.
Artists performing at the ceremonies broadcast included City and Colour, Nickelback, Sarah McLachlan and Simple Plan. The complete list of performing artists was:
Nickelback - "Something in Your Mouth" Sam Roberts - "Them Kids" Sarah McLachlan - "U Want Me 2" The Stills - "Being Here" City and Colour with Gord Downie - "Sleeping Sickness" Crystal Shawanda - "You Can Let Go" Divine Brown - "One More Chance" Serena Ryder - "Little Bit Of Red" Simple Plan - "Your Love Is a Lie" Bryan Adams with Kathleen Edwards - "Walk On By" Great Big Sea with Eccodek and Hawksley Workman - "Gallows Pole"
Nominees and winners The band Nickelback received five Juno Award nominations, the most of any band or individual artist. Celine Dion and Hedley earned nominations in three categories apiece. Performances have also been scheduled from Simple Plan and Alexisonfire vocalist Dallas Green (performing as City and Colour).
Nominees were announced at a press conference on 5 February 2009. Reporters in attendance expressed an uncertain reaction to the announcement, particularly to the number of nominations given to the critically reviled Nickelback.
The following were the 2009 Juno nominees and winners:
Artist of the Year
Winner: Sam Roberts
Other Nominees: Bryan Adams City and Colour (Dallas Green) k.d. lang Serena Ryder
Group of the Year
Winner: Nickelback
Other Nominees: Great Big Sea Simple Plan Tokyo Police Club The Trews
New Artist of the Year
Winner: Lights
Other Nominees: Jessie Farrell Crystal Shawanda Kreesha Turner Nikki Yanofsky
New Group of the Year
Winner: The Stills
Other nominees: Beast Cancer Bats Crystal Castles Plants and Animals
Jack Richardson Producer of the Year
Winner: Daniel Lanois, "Here Is What Is" and "Not Fighting Anymore" (Daniel Lanois)
Other nominees: Stuart Brawley, "Don't Stop Now" and "Falling" (Emmy Rossum) David Foster, "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Seal), "Silent Night" (Josh Groban) k.d. lang, "I Dream of Spring" and "Coming Home" (k.d. lang) Nickelback and Joey Moi (co-producer Mutt Lange), "Gotta Be Somebody" and "Something in Your Mouth" (Nickelback)
Recording Engineer of the Year
Winner: Kevin Churko, "Disappearing" and "The Big Bang" (Simon Collins)
Other nominees: John "Beetle" Bailey, "Lucky" and "If I Were A Bell" (Molly Johnson) Mike Fraser, "Rock N' Roll Train" (AC/DC), "Them Kids" (Sam Roberts) Joey Moi, "Gotta Be Somebody" and "Never Gonna Be Alone" (Nickelback) Randy Staub, "Something in Your Mouth" (Nickelback)
Songwriter of the Year
Winner: City and Colour, "Waiting...", "Sleeping Sickness", "The Girl"
Other nominees: Nathan Ferraro, "Never Again", "Change For You", "Unaware" (The Midway State) Hedley, "Old School", "For The Nights I Can't Remember" (with Dave Genn), "Never Too Late" (with Greig Nori) (Hedley) Alanis Morissette, "Underneath", "Not As We", "In Praise of the Vulnerable Man" (Alanis Morissette) Gordie Sampson, "When I Said I Would" (Whitney Duncan), "Just A Dream" (Carrie Underwood), "Davey Jones" (Gordie Sampson)
Fan Choice Award
Winner: Nickelback
Other nominees: Céline Dion Feist Hedley The Lost Fingers
Nominated albums
Album of the Year Winner: Dark Horse, Nickelback
Other nominees: Famous Last Words, Hedley Lost in the 80's, The Lost Fingers 70’s Volume 2, Sylvain Cossette Simple Plan, Simple Plan
Aboriginal Recording of the Year Winner: Running for the Drum, Buffy Sainte-Marie
Other nominees: Auk/Blood, Tanya Tagaq First Law of the Land, Billy Joe Green No Lies (album)|No Lies, Tracy Bone The World (And Everything In It), Team Rezofficial
Adult Alternative Album of the Year Winner: Is It O.K., Serena Ryder
Other nominees: Asking for Flowers, Kathleen Edwards The Baroness, Sarah Slean Between the Beautifuls, Hawksley Workman Exit Strategy of the Soul, Ron Sexsmith
Alternative Album of the Year Winner: Oceans Will Rise, The Stills
Other nominees: The Chemistry of Common Life, Fucked Up In the Future, Black Mountain Parc Avenue, Plants and Animals Soft Airplane, Chad VanGaalen
Blues Album of the Year Winner: Ramblin' Son, Julian Fauth
Other nominees: Acoustic Blues: Got 'Em from the Bottom, Big Dave McLean Get Way Back: A Tribute to Percy Mayfield, Amos Garrett Love & Sound, Garrett Mason Mess of Blues, Jeff Healey
CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year Winner: Anouk Pennel and Stéphane Poirer, En concert dans la forêt des mal-aimés avec l'Orchestre Métropolitain, Pierre Lapointe
Other nominees: John Cook, Kelly Ferguson, John James Audubon, Koko Bonaparte, Sugarbird, Paul Reddick Phoebe Greenberg, George Fok, Daniel Fortin, Leda & St. Jacques, Productions l'Éloi, Pulse of the Planet, Slim Williams Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet, Mountain Meadows, Elliott Brood Dallas Wehrle, Robyn Kotyk, Alex vs. Alex, Kensington Heights, Constantines
Children's Album of the Year Winner: Snacktime!, Barenaked Ladies
Other nominees: Catchy Tune, Jack Grunsky FiddleFire!, Chris McKhool The Kerplunks, The Kerplunks Oui!, Gregg LeRock
Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year Winner: Ending Is Beginning, Downhere
Other nominees: Colors and Sounds, Article One I Will Go, Starfield Roar of Heaven, Life Support Salvation Station, newworldson
Classical Album of the Year (large ensemble) Winner: Beethoven: Ideals Of The French Revolution, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano
Other nominees: Bach: Métamorphoses, Orchestre symphonique de Québec and Yoav Talmi Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8, Tafelmusik and Bruno Weil Bruckner: Symphonie No 9, Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin Haydn: Symphonies 62, 107 & 108, Toronto Chamber Orchestra and Kevin Mallon
Classical Album of the Year (solo or chamber ensemble) Winner: Homage, James Ehnes
Other nominees: Haydn: Six Sonatas for Piano, Anton Kuerti Schubert: Complete Piano Trios, The Gryphon Trio Schumann: Sonata in F#Minor & Humoreske, Angela Hewitt Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues opus 87, David Jalbert
Classical Album of the Year (vocal or choral performance) Winner: Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels, Ensemble Caprice
Other nominees: Bach and the Liturgical Year, Shannon Mercer and Luc Beauséjour Handel: Arias, Karina Gauvin Schumann: Dichterliebe & other Heine Settings, Gerald Finley The Voice of Bach, Daniel Taylor
Francophone Album of the Year Winner: Tous les sens, Ariane Moffatt
Other nominees: L'arbre aux parfums, Caracol Cœur de pirate, Cœur de pirate Tradarnac, Swing Le volume du vent, Karkwa
Instrumental Album of the Year Winner: Nostomania, DJ Brace presents The Electric Nosehair Orchestra
Other nominees: Auk/Blood, Tanya Tagaq The Furniture Moves Underneath, Inhabitants The Soundtrack, Creaking Tree String Quartet Telescope, Steve Dawson
International Album of the Year Winner: Viva La Vida, Coldplay
Other nominees:
Black Ice, AC/DC Chinese Democracy, Guns N' Roses Death Magnetic, Metallica Sleep Through the Static, Jack Johnson
Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year Winner: Embracing Voices, Jane Bunnett
Other nominees: A Bend in the River, Roberto Occhipinti Existential Detective, Barry Romberg's Random Access Large Ensemble Rasstones, François Bourassa Quartet The Sicilian Jazz Project, Michael Occhipinti
Traditional Jazz Album of the Year Winner: Second Time Around, Oliver Jones
Other nominees: For Kenny Wheeler, Don Thompson Quartet Small Wonder, Brad Turner Quartet Solo, Chris Donnelly TV Trio, John Stetch
Vocal Jazz Album of the Year Winner: Lucky, Molly Johnson
Other nominees: Ella...Of Thee I Swing, Nikki Yanofsky If the Moon Turns Green..., Diana Panton Ima, Yvette Tollar Parkdale, Elizabeth Shepherd
Pop Album of the Year Winner: Flavors of Entanglement, Alanis Morissette
Other nominees: Holes, The Midway State No Sleep at All, Creature Passion, Kreesha Turner Wake Up and Say Goodbye, David Usher
Rock Album of the Year Winner: Love at the End of the World, Sam Roberts
Other nominees: Fortress, Protest The Hero No Time for Later, The Trews Parallel Play, Sloan Terminal Romance, Matt Mays & El Torpedo
Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (Solo) Winner: Proof of Love, Old Man Luedecke
Other nominees: The Contradictor, Ndidi Onukwulu Ghost Notes, Matthew Barber Happy Here, Suzie Vinnick Tinderbox, Fred Eaglesmith
Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (Group) Winner: Chic Gamine, Chic Gamine
Other nominees: Fast Paced World, The Duhks Highway Prayer, Twilight Hotel Mountain Meadows, Elliott Brood XOK, NQ Arbuckle
World Music Album of the Year Winner: Africa to Appalachia, Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko
Other nominees: The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun, George Dimitri Sawa Cairo to Toronto, Maryem & Ernie Tollar Contrabanda, Lubo and Kaba Horo Shivaboom, Eccodek
Nominated releases
Single of the Year Winner: "Dangerous", Kardinal Offishall
Other nominees: "Gotta Be Somebody", Nickelback "Lay It on the Line", Divine Brown "Lost", Michael Bublé "Taking Chances", Céline Dion
Classical Composition of the Year Winner: "Flanders Fields Reflections", John Burge
Other nominees: "From the Dark Reaches", T. Patrick Carrabré "Manhattan Music", Bramwell Tovey "Notes Towards A Poem That Can Never Be Written", Timothy Corlis "Song of Songs", Sid Robinovitch
Country Recording of the Year Winner: Beautiful Life, Doc Walker
Other nominees: Chasing the Sun, Tara Oram Dawn of a New Day, Crystal Shawanda Thankful, Aaron Pritchett What I Do, George Canyon
Dance Recording of the Year Winner: "Random Album Title", Deadmau5
Other nominees: "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", James Doman "Get Blahsted", Hatiras and MC Flipside "Move For Me", Deadmau5 vs. Kaskade "Yes We Can", House Music United
Music DVD of the Year Winner: Blue Road (Blue Rodeo)
Other nominees: Here Is What Is (Daniel Lanois) It All Started With A Red Stripe (Moneen) Live in Las Vegas - A New Day... (Céline Dion) A MultiMedia Life (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
R&B/Soul Recording of the Year Winner: The Love Chronicles, Divine Brown
Other nominees: Elise Estrada, Elise Estrada Money, Zaki Ibrahim The Promise, Deborah Cox TONY, Ivana Santilli
Rap Recording of the Year Winner: Not 4 Sale, Kardinal Offishall
Other Nominees: A Captured Moment in Time, DL Incognito The Book, D-Sisive I Rap Now, Famous Point Blank, Point Blank
Reggae Recording of the Year Winner: "Everything", Humble
Other nominees: "Jah Lift Me Up", Blessed "Renegade Rocker", Dubmatix "The Peacemaker's Chauffeur", Jason Wilson "Truth Will Reveal", Souljah Fyah
Video of the Year Winner: Anthony Seck, "Honey Honey" (Feist)
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