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The Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award is an annual Canadian award, presented to the year's best song by an emerging singer-songwriter from
Ontario in the genres of roots, traditional, folk and country music.
[1] The award, created in memory of Canadian country singer
Colleen Peterson , is sponsored by the
Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals (OCFF), and is presented to a songwriter selected from 15 nominations put forward by the OCFF's Songs from the Heart songwriting competition,
[2] excluding overall winners of the
Galaxie Rising Stars Awards. The award was initially funded in part by royalties from the sale of Postcards from California , a posthumous album collecting some of Peterson's unreleased demo recordings.
[3]
The award was presented for the first time in 2003.
Winners
2003 –
Evalyn Parry , "The Stone and the Bumblebee"
[4]
2004 –
David Gillis , "A Mouse's Crumb"
[5]
2005 –
Lori Cullen and Brian MacMillan, "Away So Long"
2006 –
Andy Sheppard , "Until Next Time"
[6]
2007 –
Brooke Miller , "Two Soldiers"
[7]
2008 –
Chris MacLean , "Feet Be Still"
2009 –
Kyrie Kristmanson , "Song X"
[8]
2010 –
Lynne Hanson , "Rest of My Days"
[9]
2011 –
Alise Marlane , "L'aurore boréale"
2012 –
Ariana Gillis , "Dream Street"
[10]
2013 –
Leila Goldberger , "Sisters"
[11]
2014 –
Ken Yates , "The One That Got Away"
[12]
2015 –
Graydon James , "Couldn't Be Any Worse"
[13]
2016 –
Abigail Lapell , "Jordan"
[14]
2017 –
Noosa Al-Sarraj , "Pincushion Soldier"
[15]
2018 –
Lora Bidner , "3,000 Volts"
[16]
2019 -
Suzanne Jarvie , "All in Place"
2020 -
Danielle Knibbe , "Footnote"
2021 -
Julie Title , "Ghost"
2022 -
Camie , "Winter"
Ariana Gillis, the winner of the award in 2012, is the daughter of 2004 winner David Gillis.
[10]
References
^ "Performers band together in name of Colleen Peterson".
Toronto Star , October 3, 2002.
^ "Folk festival accepting entries for awards". Waterloo Chronicle , May 7, 2008.
^ "Music of Canadian country legend found and released years after her death". Lindsay This Week , October 5, 2004.
^ "First Peterson songwriting award to evalyn parry".
Peterborough Examiner , October 10, 2003.
^ "Peterson Award goes to Vineland musician".
Peterborough Examiner , October 21, 2004.
^ "Night of the guitar returns". Cowichan News Leader , February 13, 2008.
^ "Roots welcomes Wilson to the stage". Vernon Morning Star , September 26, 2008.
^ "Ottawa singer wins songwriting award".
Ottawa Citizen , October 17, 2009.
^ "Folk artist Lynne Hanson performs at Old Church on Saturday". Quinte EMC , January 19, 2017.
^
a
b "'Music is it for me'". Niagara This Week , October 14, 2012.
^
"Local singer Leila Goldberger wins Colleen Peterson Songwriting award"
Archived December 1, 2017, at the
Wayback Machine .
Metro , October 21, 2013.
^
"Toronto's Ken Yates Receives 2014 Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award" .
Ontario Arts Council , October 15, 2014.
^ "Toronto roots-rock band shakes it up on new album".
Times & Transcript , May 2, 2015.
^
"Abigail Lapell and the power of melody" .
Waterloo Region Record , January 13, 2017.
^
"Music News Digest, Oct. 20, 2017" . FYI Music News , October 20, 2017.
^
"Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award Laureates" . Ontario Arts Council . 2016.
Archived from the original on February 3, 2017.
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