Manitoban artists bring Junos home for contemporary Indigenous artist and blues album of the year

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Manitoba's homegrown euphony endowment shined Juno golden astatine the yearly grant ceremonial landing 2 awards connected Saturday with Sebastian Gaskin winning modern Indigenous creator of the twelvemonth and Dave McLean scoring the blues medium of the year.

Singers Sebastian Gaskin and Big Dave McLean among Saturday nighttime winners

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· Posted: Mar 30, 2025 6:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

A composite of 2 images of men, 1 of them holding an aureate trophy to the mouth, the different receiving it with his hand.

Manitoba's homegrown euphony endowment shined Juno golden astatine the yearly grant ceremonial landing 2 awards connected Saturday.

The Juno hardware was handed retired during a gala successful Vancouver, wherever prizes successful much than 40 categories were awarded up of Sunday's televised ceremony.

Sebastian Gaskin, a instrumentalist from Tataskweyak Cree Nation present based successful Toronto, won modern Indigenous creator of the twelvemonth with his opus Brown Man.

"This means the satellite to me," Gaskin said connected Saturday aft receiving the award.

The grounds that landed the singer-songwriter's archetypal Juno is 1 of 11 tracks portion of his debut album Lovechild, released earlier this year.

Gaskin, who received his precise archetypal Juno information this year, performed the closing enactment of the nighttime with a stirring rendition of Medicine.

WATCH | Manitoba's Sebastian Gaskin performs astatine the 2025 Juno Awards Gala:

Ghost, another of his tracks, was besides nominated among the titles of shaper and songwriter Hill Kourkoutis in the signaling technologist of the twelvemonth category.

Big Dave McLean, a Saskatchewan-born and Winnipeg-based artist, won blues medium of the twelvemonth with his 14-track medium This Old Life, released past summer.

The Order of Canada recipient has been nominated for aggregate Juno awards through his decades-long vocation of telling stories done the descent connected his guitar and gravelly voice.

LISTEN | Legendary instrumentalist Big Dave McLean reflects connected 50 years of singing the blues:

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Big Dave McLean began his euphony vocation successful the 70s. Now much than 50 years later, the Winnipeg creator is inactive singing the blues. He joined Up To Speed big Faith Fundal to bespeak connected his grant winning career, and his caller album, This Old Life.

Manitoba artists garnered nominations successful different categories this year. That includes singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt nominated for accepted roots medium of the year, Boy Golden in the modern roots medium of the twelvemonth and Jocelyn Gould in jazz medium of the twelvemonth solo.

The Juno Awards proceed connected Sunday night.

With files from The Canadian Press

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