Canada Day (and the weekend) bring many a great live show with Polaris Long List artists to your neck of the woods, from sea to shining sea. Enjoy the fireworks, unless you're in Toronto, where you'll have to settle for the figurative fireworks of Chad VanGaalen & The Constantines on the waterfront. As always, check your local listings. But here's a sampling:
Jill Barber, Land Of Talk and Beast are all performing at Winnipeg Jazz.
A healthy slate of past honourees and present Long List artists are playing festivals big and small all across the country this summer. We'll do our best to keep you looped.
Joshua Ostroff, Editor at Spinner Canada and Grand Jury member from last year, is wowed by Long Lister CÅ“uer De Pirate.
Freshly minted Polaris Long Listed artists are playing Toronto this weekend as a part of North By Northeast, and coming from as far away as Calgary and Montréal. If you're heading out, be sure to add them to your list.
Every year Polaris commissions 10 print artists from our Short List nominees' home towns to come up with a commemorative print design for each record.
It's here! 40 strong as voted by our jury. These titles will now be closely (re)evaluated by our jury to decide the 10 title Short List, to be announced 11am EST July 7. Get listening! Links to our nominee's sites and Myspace pages is found under Nominees, above.
Right now, Polaris jurors across the land are assembling their first ballots, racing towards our deadline of midnight this very night. Some of them have been publicly blogging of their picks and the pangs of choosing just five albums…
If you've been surfing around this site learning all about the Polaris Music Prize (and really, why wouldn't you be?) you may ask yourself, "Who picks the winner?" If you've come across our rules and regs and the page called "jury" you may be asking instead, "Who picks the jury?" Well, we're glad you asked…
Cadence Weapon can add poet laureate to a list of honours that includes making the Polaris Short List in 2006 and Long List in 2008.
