Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize

Derrick Ross presenting the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize to Jane Siberry at the 2025 Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony – Photo by Wade Muir

The winners of the 2025 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize are Jane Siberry for the album The Speckless Sky, and The Organ for the album Grab That Gun. The Speckless Sky was chosen by a jury made up of music media and music historians, and Grab That Gun, by public vote.

The Heritage Prize is a hall of fame-minded critics prize/public polling campaign meant to celebrate classic Canadian albums created before Polaris began in 2006. Like the Polaris Music Prize, winners and nominees of the Heritage Prize are albums of the highest artistic distinction, without regard to sales or affiliations.

The 2025 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize-nominated albums are:

1. Choclair – Ice Cold
2. The Constantines – The Constantines
3. Franck Dervieux – Dimension M
4. Do Make Say Think – Goodbye Enemy Airship, The Landlord Is Dead
5. Doughboys – Crush
6. Dubmatique – La force de comprendre
7. Mort Garson – Mother Earth’s Plantasia
8. The Organ – Grab That Gun – Winner
9. Propagandhi – Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes
10. Rascalz – Cash Crop
11. Jane Siberry – The Speckless Sky – Winner
12. Strawberry – Brokeheart Audio

CBC presents the 2025 Polaris Music Prize. This year’s Heritage Prize was created in partnership with by the Slaight Family Foundation. This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada, and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. It is supported by SiriusXM Canada, Ontario Creates, the Government of Ontario, and the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund.

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