2015 Polaris Music Prize

Annual Canadian music award ceremony thumb|alt=See caption|Buffy Sainte-Marie wins the 2015 Polaris Music Prize The 2015 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 21, 2015 at The Carlu event theatre in Toronto, Ontario."Polaris Music Prize Announces 2015 Long List". Exclaim!, June 16, 2015. The event was hosted by children's entertainer Fred Penner. In May 2015, Slaight Communications announced an additional contribution to the Polaris fund which saw the prize for the winning album increased to $50,000,"Polaris Music Prize grows to $50,000". Toronto Star, May 11, 2015. as well as $3,000 to each of the non-winning nominees. Shortlist The ten-album shortlist was announced on July 16."Polaris Music Prize Reveals 2015 Short List". Exclaim!, July 16, 2015. 30em Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power in the Blood Alvvays, Alvvays BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul Braids, Deep in the Iris Caribou, Our Love Jennifer Castle, Pink City Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon The New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers Viet Cong, Viet Cong In March 2025, after the controversy around Sainte-Marie's long-claimed indigenous Canadian heritage, the Polaris committee revoked her award.Kevin Maimann, "Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of Juno, Polaris music awards". CBC News, March 7, 2025. Longlist The prize's preliminary 40-album longlist was announced on June 16 at the Carleton Music Bar and Grill in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 30em Absolutely Free, Absolutely Free The Acorn, Vieux Loup Lydia Ainsworth, Right From Real Alvvays, Alvvays Arkells, High Noon Rich Aucoin, Ephemeral BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul Bahamas, Bahamas Is Afie The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator Braids, Deep in the Iris Steph Cameron, Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady Caribou, Our Love Jazz Cartier, Marauding in Paradise Jennifer Castle, Pink City Cold Specks, Neuroplasticity Louis-Jean Cormier, Les grandes artères Death from Above 1979, The Physical World Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late Frazey Ford, Indian Ocean Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon B. A. Johnston, Shit Sucks Pierre Kwenders, Le dernier empereur Bantou Lee Harvey Osmond, Beautiful Scars Jean Leloup, À Paradis City METZ, II Milk & Bone, Little Mourning Tre Mission, Stigmata The New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power in the Blood Elizabeth Shepherd, The Signal Siskiyou, Nervous Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld, Never Were the Way She Was Various Artists, Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country, 1966-1985 Viet Cong, Viet Cong Patrick Watson, Love Songs for Robots The Weather Station, Loyalty White Lung, Deep Fantasy Whitehorse, Leave No Bridge Unburned Young Guv, Ripe 4 Luv Heritage Prize In 2015, the Polaris committee also launched the Heritage Prize, an awards program to honour classic Canadian albums released before the creation of the Polaris Prize."Polaris Music Prize Announces Heritage Prize Nominees". Exclaim!, September 18, 2015. Each year four shortlists of albums from four historical periods in Canadian music will be released, following which a public online vote will choose which album to honour. These will be announced separately from the main Polaris Prize. The winners for 2015 were announced on October 9."Joni Mitchell, Cowboy Junkies, Sloan and Peaches Take Home Polaris Heritage Prizes". Exclaim!, October 9, 2015. The four winning albums will be honoured with a tribute concert in Toronto in early 2016, a trophy and the sale of a limited edition commemorative print. 1960s-1970s Joni Mitchell, Blue The Band, Music from Big Pink Robert Charlebois and Louise Forestier, Lindberg Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen Jackie Shane, Jackie Shane Live 1980s Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Session Glenn Gould, Bach: The Goldberg Variations Daniel Lanois, Acadie Maestro Fresh Wes, Symphony in Effect Mary Margaret O'Hara, Miss America Rush, Moving Pictures 1990s Sloan, Twice Removed Blue Rodeo, Five Days in July Bran Van 3000, Glee Dream Warriors, And Now the Legacy Begins Lhasa de Sela, La llorona 2000-2005 Peaches, The Teaches of Peaches Arcade Fire, Funeral Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It in People Constantines, Shine a Light Feist, Let It Die References External links Polaris Music Prize Category:2015 in Canadian music Category:2015 music awards 2015