Western Canadian Music Awards

Attended the Western Canadian Music Awards (WCMA) Sunday night at the Arts Centre. These awards highlight musicians from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, B.C. & Yukon. (If you want a bit of WCMA history CLICK HERE ).

It was open seating and who did we sit beside but my old Ontario friend Sue. I didn't even know she was in town. Not much time to talk between acts but was good to see her all the same.

The group 54-40 from B.C. was inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame. They played on stage at the end of the ceremony and had everyone up and singing and clapping and eventually up on stage while they performed.

Here are the winners and artists you may wish to check out if you do not know them:

INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING – Five Alarm Funk
WORLD RECORDING OF THE YEAR – Trio Bembe
ROOTS SOLO RECORDING – Del Barber
ROOTS DUO/GROUP RECORDING The Wailin’ Jennys
BLUES RECORDING – Little Miss Higgins
JAZZ RECORDING – Night Crawlers with the Big Band Sound
CHILDRENS RECORDING – The Kerplunks
CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN / GOSPEL RECORDING – Sojourners
INDEPENDENT ALBUM – Del Barber
FRANCOPHONE DE L’ANNEE – Raphael Freynet
CLASSICAL COMPOSITION – Marcus Goddard
CLASSICAL RECORDING – Peter Hannan
ABORIGINAL RECORDING – Don Amero
POP RECORDING – Imaginary Cities
URBAN RECORDING – Souljah Fyah
RAP / HIP HOP RECORDING – Sweatshop Union
ROCK RECORDING – The Sheepdogs
COUNTRY RECORDING – Ridley Bent
SONGWRITER(S) OF THE YEAR – Romi Mayes
HALL OF FAME – 54-40



Del Barber performed at the awards show and although I could hardly find many videos of the night even though it was live streamed, thought you may enjoy one of his past performances.