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Long Listers Great Lake Swimmers, shown some love by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams.
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Happy Canada Day from the Polaris Music Prize!
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:
Long Listers playing Jazz Winnipeg
Jill Barber, Land Of Talk and Beast are all performing at Winnipeg Jazz.
Polaris artists playing Sled Island Festival in Calgary
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.
Spinner Canada loves Long Lister CÅ“ur De Pirate
Joshua Ostroff, Editor at Spinner Canada and Grand Jury member from last year, is wowed by Long Lister CÅ“uer De Pirate.
Polaris Long Listers to play & founder to moderate @ NXNE in Toronto.
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.
Guess The Short List with Exclaim!
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.
All Hail the 2009 Polaris Music Prize Long List!
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.
Long live the Long List
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…
The (not so) secret lives of Polaris Jury members
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…
