Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year

The Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year is an annual music award, presented by the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the best albums in contemporary folk music by Canadian artists.

2000s

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Year Nominee Album Ref
2005
1st Canadian Folk Music Awards
Nathan Jimson Weed [1]
The Bills Let 'Em Run [2]
The Clumsy Lovers Smart Kid
David Francey Waking Hour
Jenny Whiteley Hopetown
2006
2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards
Penny Lang Stone & Sand & Sea & Sky [3]
Jim Byrnes House of Refuge [4]
Bruce Cockburn Life Short Call Now
Corb Lund Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer
The Wailin' Jennys Firecracker
2007
3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards
The Duhks Migrations [5]
Jim Bryson Where the Bungalows Roam [6]
David Francey Right of Passage
Oh Susanna Short Stories
Jenny Whiteley Dear
2008
4th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Luke Doucet and the White Falcon Blood's Too Rich [7]
Annabelle Chvostek Resilience [8]
NQ Arbuckle XOK
Justin Rutledge Man Descending
Oliver Schroer Hymns and Hers
2009
5th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Joel Plaskett Three [9]
Jim Byrnes My Walking Stick [10]
Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels
Romi Mayes Achin in Yer Bones
Ndidi Onukwulu The Contradictor

2010s

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Year Nominee Album Ref
2010
6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
John Wort Hannam Queen's Hotel [11]
Amelia Curran Hunter, Hunter [12]
Dala Girls from the North Country
Lennie Gallant If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante
Old Man Luedecke My Hands Are on Fire and Other Love Songs
2011
7th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Bruce Cockburn Small Source of Comfort [13]
Les Charbonniers de l'enfer Nouvelles fréquentations [14]
The Good Lovelies Let The Rain Fall
Lynn Miles Fall for Beauty
Twilight Hotel When the Wolves Go Blind
2012
8th Canadian Folk Music Awards
The Deep Dark Woods The Place I Left Behind [15]
Rose Cousins We Have Made a Spark [16]
Old Man Luedecke and Lake of Stew Sing All About It
Linda McRae Rough Edges and Ragged Hearts
Whitehorse Whitehorse
2013
9th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Justin Rutledge Valleyheart [17]
Annabelle Chvostek Rise [18]
David Francey So Say We All
Lynn Miles Downpour
Ruth Moody These Wilder Things
2014
10th Canadian Folk Music Awards
The Strumbellas We Still Move on Dance Floors [19]
Matt Andersen Weightless [20]
The Bros. Landreth Let it Lie
Colleen Rennison See the Sky About to Rain
Jill Zmud Small Matters of Life and Death
2015
11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Catherine MacLellan The Raven's Sun [21]
Jon Brooks The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside [22]
Jenn Grant Compostela
The Once Departures
Gabrielle Papillon The Tempest of Old
2016
12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
David Francey Empty Train [23]
Big Little Lions Just Keep Moving [24]
Corin Raymond Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
The Strumbellas Hope
Donovan Woods Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled
2017
13th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Abigail Lapell Hide Nor Hair [25]
The Fretless Bird's Nest [26]
Tomato Tomato I Go Where You Go
Braden Gates Much Rather Be Sleeping
Leif Vollebekk Twin Solitude
2018
14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Donovan Woods Both Ways [27]
Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier Two [28]
The Lynnes Heartbreak Song for the Radio
Gabrielle Papillon Keep the Fire
The Wailin' Jennys Fifteen

2020s

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Year Nominee Album Ref
2020
15th Canadian Folk Music Awards
The Small Glories Assiniboine & The Red [29]
Lennie Gallant Time Travel [30]
Ariana Gillis The Maze
Jenn Grant Love, Inevitable
Dave Gunning Up Against the Sky
Abigail Lapell Getaway
Leaf Rapids Citizen Alien
Various Artists The Al Purdy Songbook
2021
16th Canadian Folk Music Awards
William Prince Reliever [31]
Basia Bulat Are You in Love? [32]
The Dead South Sugar & Joy
The East Pointers Yours to Break
Stephen Fearing The Unconquerable Past
Catherine MacLellan Coyote
Mike McKenna Jr. At the Edge of the World
Joe Nolan Drifters
2022
17th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Allison Russell Outside Child [33]
Beyries Encounter [34]
Craig Cardiff All This Time Running
Rick Fines Solar Powered Too
David Leask Voyageur in Song
Rob Lutes Come Around
Ryland Moranz XO, 1945
Reney Ray À l'ouest du réel
2023
18th Canadian Folk Music Awards
John Wort Hannam Long Haul [35]
Shawna Caspi Hurricane Coming [36]
Digging Roots Zhawenim
Madison Violet eleven
Kyle McKearney Down-Home
Sultans of String Sanctuary
Tanya Tagaq Tongues
Ken Yates Cerulean
2024
19th Canadian Folk Music Awards
William Prince Stand in the Joy [37]
Jill Barber Homemaker [38]
The East Pointers House of Dreams
Lynn Miles TumbleWeedyWorld
Tami Neilson Kingmaker
NQ Arbuckle Love Songs for the Long Game
The Sadies Colder Streams
Terra Spencer, Ben Caplan Old News

References

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  1. ^ "Canada's Folk Music Awards begin a tradition". The Globe and Mail, December 12, 2005.
  2. ^ "Sampson, Nathan among inaugural folk nominees". Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune, November 4, 2005.
  3. ^ "Veteran Lang tops Canadian folk awards". CBC News, December 11, 2006.
  4. ^ "Wailin' Jennys, Madrigaia nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards". CBC News, November 1, 2006.
  5. ^ Greg Quill, "Toronto roots musicians snag prizes". St. Catharines Standard, December 3, 2007.
  6. ^ "Bruce Cockburn up for 4 Canadian Folk Music Awards". CBC News, October 17, 2007.
  7. ^ "Late Toronto fiddler honoured at Folk Music Awards". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, November 24, 2008.
  8. ^ "Late fiddler Oliver Schroer leads Canadian Folk Music nominations". CBC News, October 8, 2008.
  9. ^ Lynn Saxberg, "Folk musicians honoured". Regina Leader-Post, November 23, 2009.
  10. ^ "Results 2009". Canadian Folk Music Awards.
  11. ^ Greg Quill, "Top Canadian Folk Music Awards announced". Toronto Star, November 21, 2010.
  12. ^ "Folk music award nominations released". CBC News, October 6, 2010.
  13. ^ "Bruce Cockburn nabs two Canadian Folk Music Awards". CTV News, December 5, 2011.
  14. ^ Michael Kornfeld, "Nominees Named for 2011 Canadian Folk Music Awards". Acoustic Music Scene, October 22, 2011.
  15. ^ "Canadian Folk Music Award winners". Roots Music Canada, November 21, 2012.
  16. ^ "Results 2012". Canadian Folk Music Awards.
  17. ^ Brad Wheeler, "Good Lovelies among winners at Canadian Folk Music Awards". The Globe and Mail, November 11, 2013.
  18. ^ Michael Kornfeld, "Nominees Named for 2013 Canadian Folk Music Awards". Acoustic Music Scene, September 29, 2013.
  19. ^ Lynn Saxberg, "Ottawa singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume among folk music award winners". Ottawa Citizen, November 30, 2014.
  20. ^ Lynn Saxberg, "Folkies set to honour their own". Ottawa Citizen, September 25, 2014.
  21. ^ "Canadian Folk Music Awards recipients announced in Edmonton". CBC News, November 9, 2015.
  22. ^ Michael Kornfeld, "Nominees Named for 2015 Canadian Folk Music Awards". Acoustic Music Scene, September 9, 2015.
  23. ^ "Rail yard labourer-turned-musician David Francey wins big at Canadian Folk Music Awards". Toronto Star, December 3, 2016.
  24. ^ Calum Slingerland, "Canadian Folk Music Awards Announce 2016 Winners". Exclaim!, December 4, 2016.
  25. ^ Lynn Saxberg, "Canadian Folk Music Awards celebrate music, artists old and new". Ottawa Citizen, November 19, 2017.
  26. ^ Brock Thiessen, "Canadian Folk Music Awards Reveal 2017 Nominees". Exclaim!, September 21, 2017.
  27. ^ "The LYNNeS, Pharis Romero Win Multiple CFMAs". FYI Music News, December 3, 2018.
  28. ^ Michael Kornfeld, "Nominees Named for 2018 Canadian Folk Music Awards". Acoustic Music Scene, September 22, 2018.
  29. ^ Allie Gregory, "Here Are All the 2020 Canadian Folk Music Awards Winners". Exclaim!, April 5, 2020.
  30. ^ "Dave Gunning gets four nominations for Canadian Folk Music Awards". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, November 20, 2019.
  31. ^ "Pharis & Jason Romero Head CFMA Winners List". FYI Music News, April 11, 2021.
  32. ^ Brock Thiessen, "Canadian Folk Music Awards Unveil 2021 Nominees". Exclaim!, December 1, 2020.
  33. ^ Heather Kitching, "The Canadian Folk Music Awards 2022 – winners and highlights". Roots Music Canada, April 2, 2022.
  34. ^ Megan Lapierre, "Canadian Folk Music Awards Announce 2022 Nominees". Exclaim!, September 28, 2021.
  35. ^ "CFMAs Are Handed Out In Vancouver". FYI Music News, April 5, 2023.
  36. ^ Stephen Cooke, "Madison Violet, Shannon & Tony Quinn among 2023 Canadian Folk Music Award nominees". SaltWire Network, October 5, 2022.
  37. ^ Calum Slingerland, "Here are the 2024 Canadian Folk Music Awards Winners". Exclaim!, April 10, 2024.
  38. ^ Nika Petrosian, "Canadian Folk Music Awards Unveil 2024 Nominees". Exclaim!, October 18, 2023.