{"id":33172,"date":"2019-07-03T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/?p=33172"},"modified":"2019-07-30T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:56:28","slug":"faith-healer-covers-the-bands-when-you-awake-for-siriusxm-polaris-cover-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/fr\/blog\/faith-healer-covers-the-bands-when-you-awake-for-siriusxm-polaris-cover-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Healer Covers The Band\u2019s \u201cWhen You Awake\u201d For SiriusXM Polaris Cover Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Polaris Music Prize has released its second SiriusXM<\/a> Polaris Cover Session for 2019 featuring Faith Healer covering \u201cWhen You Awake\u201d from The Band\u2019s self-titled Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize<\/a>-winning album.<\/p>\n

An in-studio performance video of the song is now available via the Polaris YouTube channel<\/a>. Additionally, an audio stream of it can be found on the Polaris Soundcloud channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Faith Healer\u2019s version of \u201cWhen You Awake\u201d was produced by the band at Montreal\u2019s Value Sound in April. Recording with a full band live off the floor in the studio was a new experience for Faith Healer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is actually the first recording we\u2019ve ever done with the band,\u201d said drummer\/multi-instrumentalist Renny Wilson.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we\u2019ve never done it in this arrangement,\u201d added lead singer Jessica Jalbert.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never make live recordings, so this is the first, basically,\u201d said Wilson.<\/p>\n

The Faith Healer cover is the second of three such sessions planned for 2019 that feature past Polaris nominees interpreting songs from albums that have received Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize designation. The Band\u2019s self-titled album received its Heritage Prize designation in 2017. Faith Healer made the Long List in 2018 for the album Try \ud83d\ude09<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Faith Healer\u2019s track, a forthcoming Partner interpretation and Pierre Kwenders\u2019 already-released<\/a> cover of Jean-Pierre Ferland\u2019s \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Fair\u201d will be pressed on to a limited edition vinyl record that will be given out free with purchase at participating retail stores starting in late-summer. The record will also be given to Polaris Gala attendees.<\/p>\n

This is the 14th cover song commissioned by Polaris. Other acts who\u2019ve contributed to the series include Kwenders, Jean-Michel Blais, Lindi Ortega, Weaves, Little Scream, Hannah Georgas, Les soeurs Boulay, Joel Plaskett, Zaki Ibrahim, Whitehorse, Sarah Harmer, Great Lake Swimmers and Arkells. All these performances are available on the Polaris YouTube and Soundcloud channels.<\/p>\n