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Juno Awards of 2009
Date29 March 2009
VenueGeneral Motors Place, Vancouver
HostRussell Peters
NetworkCTV
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The Juno Awards of 2009 will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on the weekend ending 29 March 2009. These ceremonies will honour music industry achievements in Canada in the latter part of 2007 and in most of 2008.[1][2]

Loverboy will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, while Sarah McLachlan will receive the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award.[3] Long-time broadcast executive Fred Sherratt, a former CHUM Limited executive, will receive the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award.[4]

Events

Various award-related events begin on 26 March 2009, ending with the primary awards ceremony on 29 March 2009, which will be telecast by CTV from General Motors Place and hosted for the second consective year by Russell Peters.[1][5][6]

Artists scheduled to perform at the ceremonies broadcast include City and Colour, Nickelback, Sarah McLachlan and Simple Plan.[7]

Performers

Here is the list of performers for the 2009 Juno Awards[8]

Nominees

The band Nickelback received five Juno Award nominations, the most of any band or individual artist. Celine Dion and Hedley earned nominations in three categories apiece.[9] Performances have also been scheduled from Simple Plan and Alexisonfire vocalist Dallas Green (performing as City and Colour).[10]

Nominees were announced at a press conference on 5 February 2009. Reporters in attendance expressed an uncertain reaction to the announcement, particularly to the number of nominations given to the critically-reviled Nickelback.[11]

Some of the winners have been announced on the award's official website about twelve hours before the show.

The following are the 2009 Juno nominees:[9]

Nominated albums

Nominated releases

References

  1. ^ a b "Vancouver Rolls Out the Red Carpet for The 2009 JUNO Awards" (PDF). CARAS. 12 February 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2008.
  2. ^ "Juno Awards gala to hit Vancouver in 2009". CBC News. 12 February 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2008.
  3. ^ "Sarah McLachlan, Loverboy to be honoured at Junos". CBC News. 20 November 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2008.
  4. ^ "Fred Sherratt Receives the 2009 Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award" (PDF). CARAS. 2 December 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
  5. ^ "The 2009 JUNO Awards to be Broadcast at Vancouver's General Motors Place" (pdf). CARAS/CTV. 9 September 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
  6. ^ "Double Trouble! Russell Peters Makes Triumphant Return to Host The 2009 JUNO Awards, March 29 on CTV" (pdf). CARAS/CTV. 18 November 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2008.
  7. ^ "Ready to Rock – City and Colour, Nickelback and Simple Plan set to Perform at the 2009 Juno Awards" (PDF). CARAS/CTV. 3 February 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
  8. ^ 2009 Juno Awards Performers - UpVenue.com
  9. ^ a b "Nickelback on top with five Juno Award nominations" (pdf). CARAS. 3 February 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
  10. ^ "Cancer Bats, Guns N'Roses, and Metallica for Canadian awards". Idiomag.com. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
  11. ^ Farquharson, Vanessa (5 February 2009). "Debate over Nickelback rages on". Regina Leader-Post. Retrieved 15 February 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)