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The Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize honours Canadian albums of the past from four distinct time periods: 1960-75, 1976-85, 1986-95 and 1996-05. Like the Polaris Music Prize, winners and nominees for the Heritage Prize are albums of the artistic distinction, without regards to sales or affiliations.
Think of the Heritage Prize as our version of a hall of fame where we try to determine who would have been nominated or won the Prize in the years before it started in 2006.
How it works is an 11 person group of Canadian music media and historians gather together each year to create a vote-curated list of 10 Short List-nominated albums per era. Two albums per era, one chosen by public vote and one chosen by the jury of critics, will be designated as Heritage Prize winners each year.
September 17, 2018 — Voting opens.
October 18, 2018, 11:59 p.m. ET — Voting closes.
October 23, 2018 — Winning albums revealed.
The 2018 Heritage Prize jury is:
Karen Bliss
Stephen Cooke
Dalton Higgins
Nick Jennings
Pierre Landry
Francois Marchand
Ben Rayner
John Sakamoto
Valerie Therrien
Jill Wilson
Lisa Wilton
Mary Dickie is this jury’s foreperson.
Heritage Prize designated albums are commemorated with limited edition silk-screen posters commissioned by visual artists who’ve been inspired by these records.
A small number of these Heritage Prize posters are made available for public sale each year. View these posters.
This website is made possible with the support of Ontario Creates.
This website is made possible with the support of Ontario Creates.