The Juno Awards of 1999 honouring Canadian music industry achievements were held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The primary ceremonies at Copps Coliseum on 7 March 1999 were broadcast by CBC Television and hosted by Mike Bullard.
Nominations were announced 27 January 1999 from the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.
CBC technicians under the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada were on strike in early 1999. However, the union chose not to picket the Juno Awards broadcast.
Luc Plamondon was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Nominees and winners Best Female Vocalist Winner: Celine Dion
Other Nominees: Holly Cole Deborah Cox Lynda Lemay Ginette Reno
Best Male Vocalist Winner: Jim Cuddy
Other Nominees: Corey Hart Colin James Kevin Parent David Usher
Best New Solo Artist Winner: Melanie Doane
Other Nominees: Emm Gryner Bruce Guthro Hayden Tamia
Best Group Winner: Barenaked Ladies
Other Nominees: Matthew Good Band Philosopher Kings The Rankins The Tragically Hip
Best New Group Winner: Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra
Other Nominees: Love Inc. The Moffatts New Meanies The Wilkinsons
Best Songwriter Winner: Bryan Adams, "On a Day Like Today" with Phil Thornalley, "When You're Gone" with Eliot Kennedy
Other Nominees: Loreena McKennitt, "The Mummer's Dance" Ed Robertson, "One Week" Amy Sky, "Love Pain and the Whole Damn Thing" and "Heaven" (both with Steven MacKinnon), "Ordinary Miracles" with David Pickell Shania Twain, "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)", "From This Moment On", "You're Still the One" (all with Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
Best Country Female Vocalist Winner: Shania Twain
Other Nominees: Lisa Brokop Tracey Brown Terri Clark Beverley Mahood
Best Country Male Vocalist Winner: Paul Brandt
Other Nominees: Chris Cummings Jason McCoy Duane Steele Jamie Warren
Best Country Group or Duo Winner: Leahy
Other Nominees: Farmer's Daughter Prairie Oyster Thomas Wade and Wayward The Wilkinsons
International Achievement Award Winner: Celine Dion
Best Producer Winner: Colin James "Let's Shout" (with co-producer Joe Hardy) and "C'mon With The C'mon"
Other Nominees: Bryan Adams (with Bob Rock), "C'mon, C'mon, C'mon", "How Do Ya Feel Tonight" both by Bryan Adams Bruce Fairbairn, "Within" and "I Finally Found My Way" by Kiss David Foster, "I Never Loved You Anyway" by The Corrs and "Have You Ever?" by Brandy Daniel Lanois, "The Maker" by Willie Nelson
Best Recording Engineer Winner: Kevin Doyle, "Stanstill" by various artists and "Soul On Soul" by Amy Sky
Other Nominees: Lenny DeRose, "Hurts to Love You" and "You Stepped on My Life" by Philosopher Kings Ormond Jobin, "Desperately" and "If We Had Never Met" by Shirley Eikhard Randy Staub, "C'mon, C'mon, C'mon" by Bryan Adams and "Radio" by Copyright John Whynot, "Disappointment" and "All in Time" by Jim Cuddy
Canadian Music Hall of Fame Winner: Luc Plamondon
Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award Winner: Allan Waters
Nominated and winning albums Best Album Winner: Let's Talk About Love, Celine Dion
Other Nominees: The Book of Secrets, Loreena McKennitt Grand parleur petit faiseur, Kevin Parent Happy?, Jann Arden Phantom Power, The Tragically Hip
Best Alternative Album Winner: Rufus Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright
Other Nominees: Breath from Another, Esthero Bring Yourself Up, Bodega BTK, BTK The Closer I Get, Hayden
Best Blues Album Winner: Blues Weather, Fathead
Other Nominees: Big Boy, Carlos del Junco Blues Boss Boogie, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne Blues Money, Michael Pickett Colin James and the Little Big Band II, Colin James
Best Children's Album Winner: Mozart's Magnificent Voyage, Susan Hammond's Classical Kids
Other Nominees: Accordelidon, Danielle Martineau Celebrate the Music, Sandra Beech If Fish Could Sing, Teresa Doyle Musical Mystery Machines, Ken Whiteley
Best Classical Album (Solo or Chamber Ensemble) Winner: Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Book 1, Angela Hewitt
Other Nominees: Dvorak, Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, The Gryphon Trio In Brahms' Apartment, Amici Ensemble Medtner: The Complete Piano Sonatas, Marc-André Hamelin Telemann: Tafelmusik, Ensemble Arion
Best Classical Album (Large Ensemble) Winner: Handel: Music For The Royal Fireworks, Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon (musical director)
Other Nominees: Bartok: Dance Suite, Music for Strings, Toronto Symphony Orchestra Reverie et Caprice: Violin Romances, Chantal Juillet, Montreal Symphony Orchestra Saint-Saëens - Fauré - Roussel, Stéphane Lemelin, CBC Vancouver Orchestra Schnittke, Part, Gorecki, I Musici de Montreal
Best Classical Album (Vocal or Choral Performance) Winner: Songs of Travel, Gerald Finley (baritone) and Stephen Ralls (piano)
Other Nominees: A Britten Serenade, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), James Sommerville (horn) Messiah: The Complete Choruses, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Orchestra Musica Intima, Musica Intima Vivaldi: Motets for Soprano, Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Best Album Design Winner: Andrew McLachlan, Rob Baker, Brock Ostrom, Bernard Clark, David Ajax, Phantom Power by The Tragically Hip
Other Nominees: David Ashcroft, Ivan Otis, Margaret Malandruccolo, Three Seeds by New Meanies Steve Goode, David Anthony, Since When by 54-40 John Rummen, Jay Blakesburg, Stunt by Barenaked Ladies Hugh Syme, Geddy Lee, Andrew MacNaughton, Different Stages by Rush
Best Gospel Album Winner: Life Is, Sharon Riley and Faith Chorale
Other Nominees: Follow Him, Toronto Mass Choir Listen to the Sound, Lianna Klassen Our Message, Selections To Whom It May Concern, Expression of Praise
Best Selling Francophone Album Winner: S'il suffisait d'aimer, Celine Dion
Other Nominees: L'Album du peuple, volume 1, François Perusse Enchantée, Carmen Campagne Grand parleur petit faiseur, Kevin Parent Lynda Lemay, Lynda Lemay
Best Instrumental Album Winner: My Roots Are Showing, Natalie MacMaster
Other Nominees: Celtic Awakening, Howard Baer, Dan Gibson Celtic Dance, Casadh An tSúgáin (composers Oliver Schroer, John Herberman) Vertigo, Jesse Cook Whispering Woods, David Bradstreet, Dan Gibson
Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic) Winner: Let's Talk About Love, Céline Dion
Other Nominees: Come On Over, Shania Twain Ray of Light, Madonna Spiceworld, Spice Girls Titanic, Music from the Motion Picture, James Horner
Best Mainstream Jazz Album Winner: The Atlantic Sessions, Kirk MacDonald
Other Nominees: Cactus, François Bourassa Inner Urge, Dave Young Trio Kenny and Sonny Live at the Montreal Bistro, The Kenny Wheeler, Sonny Greenwich Quintet Siren's Song, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, John Taylor and the Maritime Jazz Orchestra
Best Contemporary Jazz Album Winner: Metalwood 2, Metalwood
Other Nominees: Cruel Yet Fair, Hard Rubber Orchestra In the Vernacular: The Music of John Carter, François Houle Road Stories, Phil Dwyer You Are Here, Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra
Best Roots or Traditional Album - Group Winner: The McGarrigle Hour, Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Other Nominees: Heartbreak Hill, Heartbreak Hill Matapat, Bourque, Bernard et Lepage Return of the Wanderer, Puirt a Baroque Strang, Zubot & Dawson
Best Roots or Traditional Album - Solo Winner: Heartstrings, Willie P. Bennett
Other Nominees: Crazy Old Man, Roy Forbes My Roots Are Showing, Natalie MacMaster Sally's Dream, Bill Bourne Stones, Gordie Sampson
Best Pop Album Winner: Stunt, Barenaked Ladies
Other Nominees: Chapter 1: A New Beginning, The Moffatts Famous, Rich and Beautiful, Philosopher Kings Grand parleur petit faiseur, Kevin Parent Happy?, Jann Arden Let's Talk About Love, Celine Dion
Best Rock Album Winner: Phantom Power, The Tragically Hip
Other Nominees: Navy Blues, Sloan Silent Radar, The Watchmen Since When, 54-40 Underdogs, Matthew Good Band
Nominated and winning releases Best Single Winner: "One Week", Barenaked Ladies
Other Nominees: "Adia", Sarah McLachlan "Apparitions", Matthew Good Band "Hurts To Love You", Philosopher Kings "My Heart Will Go On", Celine Dion
Best Classical Composition Winner: "Concerto For Wind Orchestra", Colin McPhee
Other Nominees: "Sonata for Viola and Piano". Chris Harman "Songs for an Acrobat". Linda Bouchard "Tre Vie". Malcolm Forsyth "Wine of Peace: Two Songs for Soprano and Orchestra". John Weinzweig
Best Rap Recording Winner: Northern Touch by Rascalz featuring Choclair, Kardinal Offishall, Thrust, and Checkmate
Other Nominees: Built to Last, Maestro The Epic, Citizen Kane Frankenstein UV, Frankenstein Ghetto Concept, The Album, Ghetto Concept
Best R&B/Soul Recording Winner: One Wish by Deborah Cox
Other Nominees: Bout Your Love, Glenn Lewis I Need Some Time, Kirsten Farkollie Rally'n, Jully Black featuring Saukrates Tamia, Tamia
Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording Winner: Contact from the Underworld of Redboy, Robbie Robertson
Other Nominees: Hearts of the Nations, The 1997 Aboriginal Women's Voices Group Message from a Drum, J. Hubert Francis and Eagle Feather Thirst, Jani Lauzon Welcome to the Playground, TKO
Best Reggae/Calypso Recording Winner: Vision, Frankie Wilmot
Other Nominees: Chains and Shackles, Inspector Lenny Glorious Ride, Lazah Current The Original, DJ Ray The Way I Feel, Mystics
Best Global Album Winner: The Message, Alpha Yaya Diallo
Other Nominees: Endless, Silk Road Music Karsilama, Karsilama Por El Sol, Diego Marulanda & Pacande Vertigo, Jesse Cook
Best Dance Recording Winner: Broken Bones, Love Inc.
Other Nominees: Hands of Time, Temperance I Got What It Takes, Jacynthe Popcorn, The Boomtang Boys Try My Love, Shauna Davis
Best Video Winner: Javier Aguilera, "Forestfire" by David Usher
Other Nominees: Ulf Buddensieck, "Lukey" by Great Big Sea and The Chieftains Bill Morrison, "Apparitions" by Matthew Good Band Floria Sigismondi, "Sweet Surrender" by Sarah McLachlan Jeth Weinrich, "Wishing That" by Jann Arden
References
External links
Juno Awards site