2008 INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN Broadcaster Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & the Arts is calling all independent recording artists to apply for The Indies - the eighth annual Independent Music Awards. The event will take place in Toronto on Saturday, March 8th in the Canadian Ballroom at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel as part of Rogers Wireless Canadian Music Week. The deadline for applications is December 1st of this year.
This year's submissions will be taken exclusively through Sonicbids at www.sonicbids.com/indies2008. Submission rules and regulations can be obtained from the website at www.cmw.net.
Presented by inDiscover.net, The Indies celebrate outstanding achievement in sound recording and live performance. The awards are limited to independent artists and cover 14 different genres of music. Winners in 27 of the 30 categories are decided by both a public vote and an industry vote.
The Indies celebrate the best in Canadian and international independent music. Past year’s winners include The Arcade Fire, Bedouin Soundclash, City and Colour, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, The Trews, Interpol, Alexisonfire, Kataklysm, Feist, Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother, Hot Hot Heat, Default, The Weakerthans and Dashboard Confessional to name a few.
The Indies will also present the 2008 Galaxie Rising Stars Award of the CBC. This honour is the choice of the nation’s music critics. Music journalists from print, TV, radio and online media will be submitting their top 10 lists of Canadian independent releases of 2007. Sales and airplay are not a factor for this award, while artistic merit is the true deciding factor on who will be the winner. All submissions will be pared down to a shortlist from which these same critics will determine the recipient of the $3,000 cash prize awarded at the show.
“The program's main goal is to enable upcoming stars from all over the country to shine. Since 2001, the valuable partnership between Galaxie and Rogers Wireless Canadian Music Week has allowed us to highlight the talents of gifted artists year after year,” said Jean-Richard Lefebvre, Development, Partnerships and French Programming. |