Juno Awards of 2012

Juno Awards of 2012
Date31 March – 1 April 2012
VenueScotiabank Place, Ottawa, Ontario
Hosted byWilliam Shatner
Television/radio coverage
NetworkCTV
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The Juno Awards of 2012 honoured Canadian music industry achievements in the latter part of 2010 and in most of 2011. The awards were presented in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada during the weekend of 31 March and 1 April 2012. A week of related events began on 26 March 2012.[1][2]

Blue Rodeo was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.[3] Broadcast executive Gary Slaight was designated the 2012 recipient of the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award.[4][5][6]

Bidding

Ottawa's bid for the awards became known in March 2011 when it was revealed the province of Ontario allocated $100,000 in funding towards the city's 2012 Juno Awards bid.[7] The bid was jointly supported by the city, the province and the National Capital Commission. Ottawa hosted the awards on one other occasion, in 2003.[8]

Montreal was also considered as a 2012 host city. There was a bid from Victoria, British Columbia for the 2013 awards which was since granted to Regina. Victoria then planned a bid for 2014.[9]

Events

The Juno Cup charity hockey game between a team of musicians and a team of former National Hockey League players was held at Nepean Sportsplex on 30 March.[10]

Winners of most award categories were announced at a private gala on 31 March at the Ottawa Convention Centre.[11]

On 1 April, prior to the main ceremony, Dan Mangan hosted a songwriters' event at Centrepointe Theatre featuring Kiran Ahluwalia, Terri Clark, David Francey, Max Kerman of Arkells, Kardinall Offishall and Lindi Ortega.[12]

Main ceremony performers

William Shatner hosted the main ceremony at Scotiabank Place.[13] The following artists performed:[14][15]

Nominees and winners

Nominations for the various award categories were announced on 7 February 2012. Most awards were announced at the private gala on 31 March.[17] The remaining eight categories were announced the following day on the main televised ceremony. Two Christmas holiday albums were nominated for the Album of the Year award: Christmas by Michael Bublé and Under the Mistletoe by Justin Bieber.[18] A Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year category was introduced for the 2012 awards.[13]

People

Juno Fan Choice Award

Artist of the Year

Group of the Year

New Artist of the Year

New Group of the Year

Jack Richardson Producer of the Year

Recording Engineer of the Year

Songwriter of the Year

  • Blue ribbon Dallas Green, "Fragile Bird", "We Found Each Other" and "Weightless"
  • Jim Cuddy, "Everyone Watched the Wedding", "Skyscraper Soul" and "Watch Yourself Go Down"
  • Feist, "How Come You Never Go There", "Graveyard" and "The Circle Married the Line"
  • Dan Mangan, "About as Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help at All", "Post-War Blues" and "Oh Fortune"
  • Ron Sexsmith, "Get in Line", "Believe it When I See It" and "Middle of Love"

Allan Waters Humanitarian Award

Albums

Album of the Year

Aboriginal Album of the Year

Adult Alternative Album of the Year

Alternative Album of the Year

Blues Album of the Year

Children's Album of the Year

  • Blue ribbon Charlie Hope, Songs, Stories and Friends: Let's Go Play!
  • Bobs & Lolo, Connecting the Dots
  • Eddie Douglas, Sleepy Sky Lullaby
  • Music with Brian, Everyone
  • Vocal Paint, My Butterfly/A Cappella Lullabies

Classical Album of the Year (solo or chamber ensemble)

Classical Album of the Year (large ensemble)

Classical Album of the Year (vocal or choral performance)

Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year

Country Album of the Year

Electronic Album of the Year

Francophone Album of the Year

Instrumental Album of the Year

International Album of the Year

Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year

Traditional Jazz Album of the Year

Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year

Pop Album of the Year

Rap Recording of the Year

Rock Album of the Year

Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (solo)

Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (group)

World Music Album of the Year

  • Blue ribbon Kiran Ahluwalia, Aam Zameen: Common Ground
  • Azam Ali, From Night to the Edge of Day
  • Aboulaye Kone and Bolo Kan, Afo Gné
  • Aline Morales, Flores, Tambores e Amores
  • Socalled, Sleepover

Songs

Single of the Year

Classical Composition of the Year

Dance Recording of the Year

R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

Reggae Recording of the Year

Other

Music DVD of the Year

  • Blue ribbon Feist: Look at What the Light Did Now (Anthony Seck, Janine McInnes and Chip Sutherland)
  • David Francey: Burning Bright (Tony Girardin)
  • Peter Katz: Live at the Music Gallery (Tim Martin, Framebender and Peter Katz)
  • Rush: Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn and Peggi Cecconi)
  • Tegan and Sara: Get Along (Elinor Svoboda-Salazar, Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Piers Henwood and Nick Blasko)

Recording Package of the Year

Winner: Jeff Harrison (Designer) and Kim Ridgewell (Illustrator) for Rest of the Story (Chris Tarry)

Video of the Year

Compilation album

Juno Awards 2012
Compilation album by
various artists
Released13 March 2012 (2012-03-13)
LabelUniversal Music Canada

Universal Music Canada released a compilation album of songs from the year's Juno nominees on 13 March 2012. It debuted on the Canadian Albums Chart at number 32.[20]

No.TitleArtistLength
1."When We Stand Together"Nickelback 
2."What The Hell"Avril Lavigne 
3."Hold On"Michael Bublé 
4."Invincible"Hedley 
5."Pray"Justin Bieber 
6."Headlines"Drake 
7."Sofi Needs a Ladder"Deadmau5 
8."Toes"Lights 
9."She's Dope"Down With Webster 
10."Haven't Had Enough"Marianas Trench 
11."Alone Again"Alyssa Reid (with P. Reign) 
12."Let’s Go Higher"Johnny Reid 
13."I Don't Know"The Sheepdogs 
14."Unkind"Sloan 
15."Whistleblower"Arkells 
16."Zero Orchestra"Matthew Good 
17."I Feel You"Sam Roberts Band 
18."Fragile Bird"City and Colour 
19."Row of Houses"Dan Mangan 
20."How Come You Never Go There"Feist 

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