
Junos 2015: All the winners and memorable moments
By Sarah Kelsey
Well, that’s a wrap on the 2015 Junos – and what an star-studded evening it was. From the fashion to the performances, this was one of the best years yet for the Canadian music industry.
Stepping into the spotlight for the first time was Calgary-based artist Kiesza. The 26-year-old, who rocked one of her signature creative 'dos, was definitely the night's biggest winner, clinching the Breakthrough Artist of the Year category as well as winning Dance Recording of the Year and Video of the Year (the latter two happened during Saturday night’s untelevised Junos gala).
"I'm shaking. I'm a little nervous," she said as she accepted her breakthrough award. " Thank you to all my fans... thank you for all the support this past year — it hasn't been a full year yet, which is crazy."
The "Sound of a Woman" singer also gave an electric performance. So, too, did Hamilton’s own Arkells, who seemed to feed off the energy of the hometown crowd. They belted out their hit tune "Come to the Light," a song that helped them win Rock Album of the Year. Hedley's performance was also on point.
Read more: Juno winner Lights shares her five on-the-road essentials
One of the best moments of the night came when Alanis Morissette took to the stage as part of her induction ceremony into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The recognition, appropriately enough, came on the heels of the 20th anniversary of her world-famous album, Jagged Little Pill. The 40-year-old Ottawa-native was pitch perfect as she belted out her hit tunes Uninvited, "You Oughta Know" and "Thank You."
Accepting her honour before the Steeletown crowd, she said, " I am deeply appreciative of this country… A lot of people around the planet ask me what [it] is about you Canadians that make you so expressed and so compelling… And I say, 'There's definitely something in the water other than fluoride.'"
She added, "As an artist, I write for myself in a very self-indulgent way… I love you, and I thank you, and I thank all people who have supported me in Canada for the many decades."
Check out all the winners below!
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2015 JUNO AWARDS: ALL THE WINNERS
JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD
Arcade Fire
Bobby Bazini
Drake
Hedley
Leonard Cohen
Magic!
WINNER: Michael Bublé
Nickelback
Serge Fiori
You+Me
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Hold On, We’re Going Home
Drake ft. Majid Jordan
Crazy for You
Hedley
Hideaway
Kiesza
WINNER: Rude Magic!
We’re All in This Together
Sam Roberts Band
INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
PRISM
Katy Perry
Pure Heroine
Lorde
Midnight Memories
One Direction
WINNER: In the Lonely Hour Sam Smith
1989
Taylor Swift
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Where I Belong
Bobby Bazini
Wild Life
Hedley
WINNER: Popular Problems Leonard Cohen
No Fixed Address
Nickelback
Serge Fiori
Serge Fiori
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bryan Adams
Deadmau5
Leonard Cohen
Sarah McLachlan
WINNER: The Weeknd
GROUP OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Arkells
Chromeo
Mother Mother
Nickelback
You+Me
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY FACTOR AND RADIO STARMAKER FUND)
Glenn Morrison
Jess Moskaluke
WINNER: Kiesza
Mac DeMarco
Shawn Mendes
BREAKTHROUGH GROUP OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY FACTOR AND RADIO STARMAKER FUND)
Adventure Club
Alvvays
WINNER: Magic!
USS
Zeds Dead
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY SIRIUSXM CANADA)
WINNER: Bahamas
“All the Time”, “Bitter Memories”, “Stronger Than That”
BAHAMAS IS AFIE – Bahamas
Catherine MacLellan
“Jack’s Song”, “Tell Me Luella”, “The Raven’s Sun”
THE RAVEN’S SUN – Catherine MacLellan
Henry “Cirkut” Walter
“Birthday” – co-songwriters Katy Perry, Luke Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee
“Dark Horse ft. Juicy J” - co-songwriters Katy Perry, Jordan Houston, Luke Gottwald, Sarah Hudson, Max
Martin
PRISM – Katy Perry
“Wild Wild Love” – co-songwriters Armando C. Pérez, Luke Gottwald, Michael Everett, Max Martin,
Ammar Malik, Alexander Castillo Vasquez
GLOBALIZATION – Pitbull
Jenn Grant
“Bring Me a Rose”, “No One’s Gonna Love You (Quite Like I Do)”, “Trailer Park”
COMPOSTELA – Jenn Grant
Magic!
“Don’t Kill the Magic” – co-songwriter Adam Messinger, “Let Your Hair Down”, “Rude” – co-songwriter
Adam Messinger
DON’T KILL THE MAGIC – Magic!
COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Lifted Dallas Smith
Light Up The Night
Jess Moskaluke
Caffeine & Big Dreams
Kira Isabella
MacKenzie Porter
Mackenzie Porter
Wheels
The Road Hammers
ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Bahamas Is Afie Bahamas
Compostela
Jenn Grant
The Lemon Squeeze
Jeremy Fisher
Popular Problems
Leonard Cohen
Sleeping Operator
The Barr Brothers
ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY LONG & MCQUADE)
Alvvays
Alvvays
Shrink Dust
Chad VanGaalen
WINNER: July Talk July Talk
Animism
Tanya Tagaq
Hot Dreams
Timber Timbre
POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY TD)
Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne
Party For Your Life
Down With Webster
WINNER: Little Machines Lights
Don’t Kill The Magic
Magic!
Little Secret
Nikki Yanofsky
ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY SIRIUSXM CANADA)
WINNER: High Noon Arkells
Ghost
Big Wreck
Lo-Fantasy
Sam Roberts Band
The Union
The Glorious Sons
Between Illness and Migration
Your Favorite Enemies
VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Angela Galuppo
Angela Galuppo
WINNER: Red Diana Panton
The Signal
Elizabeth Shepherd
Counting Dreams
Julie Crochetière
Because of Billie
Molly Johnson
JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO
Zoetrope
Jim Head
WINNER: Vista Obscura Kirk MacDonald
LA Bootleg 1984
Lenny Breau
La vie commence ici
Marianne Trudel
Drum Lore Vol. 2 – More Lore
Owen Howard
JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR: GROUP
Bristles
Andrew Downing, Jim Lewis & David Occhipinti
Bobby Rice Latin Jazz Big Band: X-Treme Latin Jazz
Bobby Rice
Fishs Eddy
Brian Dickinson Trio
WINNER: Jane Bunnett and Maqueque Jane Bunnett and Maqueque
The Where
Myriad3
INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Great Wall of China
Canadian Brass
Flesh and Machine
Daniel Lanois
Off With the Cuffs
John Stetch
WINNER: Encuentro Quartango
Symphony!
Sultans of String
FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Maladie d’amour Jimmy Hunt
L’alchimie des monstres
Klô Pelgag
Ornithologie, la nuit
Philippe B
Valse 333
Sagot
Serge Fiori
Serge Fiori
CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Wave Your Antlers
Bobs & LoLo
WINNER: Where In The World Fred Penner
Le chat botté
LuLu et le Matou
Love Bug
Raffi
Happy Times
Splash'N Boots
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Blanc Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà
Akoka: Reframing Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Socalled, Jonathan Crow & Geoffrey Burleson
WINNER: Bartok: Chamber Works for Violin Vol. 3 James Ehnes
Prokofiev: Sonates & Mélodies Jonathan Crow &
Paul Stewart
Ysaÿe Sonatas for Solo Violin
Karl Stobbe
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: LARGE ENSEMBLE OR SOLOIST(S) WITH LARGE ENSEMBLE ACCOMPANIMENT
WINNER: Schubert: Winterreise Gerald Finley & Julius Drake
Handel & Porpora: The London Years Julie Boulianne, Clavecin en concert & Luc Beauséjour
Mozart: Opera & Concert Arias
Karina Gauvin, Les Violons du Roy & Bernard Labadie
Terra Tremuit
Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal
The Heart's Refuge
Theatre of Early Music, Schola Cantorum & Daniel Taylor
CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR
Glistening Pianos
Alice Ping Yee Ho GLISTENING PIANOS
WINNER: Airline Icarus Brian Current AIRLINE ICARUS – COMPLETE OPERA
Magister Ludi
Gordon Fitzell MAGISTER LUDI
Sextet, OP. 71
Jacques Hétu COMPLETE CHAMBER WORKS FOR STRINGS
Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra
John Estacio A CONCERT FOR NEW YORK
RAP RECORDING OF THE YEAR
PA2: The Director’s Cut
Marco Polo
WINNER: The Legends League Presents: Naturally Born Strangers Naturally Born Strangers
Dear America
P Reign
Amani
Saukrates
Stigmata
Tre Mission
DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Calling All Heroes
Adventure Club
White Women
Chromeo
Goodbye
Glenn Morrison
WINNER: Sound Of A Woman Kiesza
Soundwave
Trevor Guthrie
R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Dirty Laundry
Ben Stevenson
Got To Have It
jacksoul
JRDN
JRDN
Four Seasons
Melanie Durrant
WINNER: Often The Weeknd
REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Welcome the King Exco Levi
Love Inna Wi Heart
Kirk Diamond ft. Bob da Builda
Wake Up Mikey
Dangerous
Hold On Till I Die
Steele
Real Talk
Tasha T
ABORIGINAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY ABORIGINAL PEOPLES TELEVISION NETWORK)
The Whole World’s Got the Blues
Crystal Shawanda
For The Light
Digging Roots
Heart of the People
Leela Gilday
WINNER: Animism Tanya Tagaq
The (Post) Mistress
Tomson Highway
ROOTS & TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO
They Promised You Mercy
Amelia Curran
WINNER: The Raven’s Sun Catherine MacLellan
Prairieography
Del Barber
The Old Silo
James Hill
Weightless
Matt Andersen
ROOTS & TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: GROUP
South
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings
Work and Love
Elliott Brood
WINNER: Let It Lie The Bros. Landreth
Jubilee
The Deep Dark Woods
Departures
The Once
BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY STINGRAY MUSIC)
Belmont Boulevard
JW-Jones
WINNER: Solo Recordings, Vol. 2 Steve Hill
Let Me Prove It To You
Steve Strongman
Wicked
The 24th Street Wailers
A Real Fine Mess
The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer
CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Introducing Chelsea Amber
Chelsea Amber
Analog Love in Digital Times
Drew Brown
The Moment
Manafest
WINNER: VIP Manic Drive
The Joy
Tim Neufeld
WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS)
Ayrad
Ayrad
Singing in Tongues
Eccodek
The Key
Emmanuel Jal
Le dernier empereur bantou
Pierre Kwenders
WINNER: 500 Years of Night Quique Escamilla
JACK RICHARDSON PRODUCER OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY SLAIGHT MUSIC)
WINNER: Adam Messinger “Change Your Life” (co-producer Nasri Atweh) THE NEW CLASSIC – Iggy Azalea | “Rude” DON’T KILL THE MAGIC – Magic!
Eric Ratz “Ghosts” GHOSTS – Big Wreck Anthem*Warner | “Leather Jacket” – HIGH NOON –
Arkells
Gavin Brown “I Am Machine” –
Three Days Grace | “Reaper Man” VERY GOOD BAD THING – Mother Mother
Jesse Zubot “Caribou”, “Uja” ANIMISM –
Tanya Tagaq
Thomas “Tawgs” Salter “Soundwave”–
Trevor Guthrie | “Up We Go” LITTLE MACHINES – Lights
RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF AUDIO RECORDING TECHNOLOGY [OIART])
WINNER: Eric Ratz “Ghosts” GHOSTS – Big Wreck Anthem*Warner | “Satellite Hotel” BLACK BUFFALO – One Bad Son
George Seara “Got To Have It”, “Whole Day” GREATEST HITS –
jacksoul
Jeremy Darby “Mosaic”, “Nomad’s Arrival” MANDALA –
Monsoon
John “Beetle” Bailey “Any Day Now” JUST PASSING THROUGH –
The Breithaupt Brothers | “Fine and Mellow” BECAUSE OF BILLIE – Molly Johnson
Lenny Derose “I Am Machine” –
Three Days Grace | “Reaper Man” VERY GOOD BAD
THING –
Mother Mother
RECORDING PACKAGE OF THE YEAR
Alex Durlak (Art Director/Designer), Jeff McMurrich and Bry Webb (Art Directors) FREE WILL –
Bry Webb
Caroline Blanchette (Art Director) WONDERS OF THE WORLD –
The Lost Fingers
Menno Versteeg (Art Director), Zack Mykula (Designer), Jason Bartell (Illustrator), Yoshi Cooper (Photographer)PUP –
PUP
WINNER: Roberta Hansen (Art Director/Designer/Illustrator), Mike Latschislaw (Photographer) PILGRIMAGE – Steve Bell
Taylor Kirk (Art Director/Designer/Photographer), Robyn Kotyk (Designer), Laura Margaret Ramsay (Photographer) HOT DREAMS –
Timber Timbre
VIDEO OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY MUCHFACT, EXCLUSIVELY FUNDED BY BELL MEDIA)
Preach
Dane Collison SONREAL
Lost You
Grandson & Son ZEDS DEAD FT. TWIN SHADOW
Guilt Trip
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Chandler Levack PUP
WINNER: Hideaway Kiesza, Blayre Ellestad, Rami Afuni and Ljuba Castot KIESZA
Not Up To Me
Natalie Rae Robison KANDLE
ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Our Love Caribou
While (1<2)
Deadmau5
Right From Real
Lydia Ainsworth
EX
Plastikman
Alone For The First Time
Ryan Hemsworth
METAL/HARD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Z² Devin Townsend Project
Waiting for the End to Come
Kataklysm
Brotherhood of the Ram
Shooting Guns
Negative Qualities
Single Mothers
Chasing the Dream
Skull Fist
ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Womyn
Alysha Brilla
Everything Almost
Jann Arden
Trauma: Chansons de la série télé (saison no. 5)
Coeur de pirate
Dark Swing
Ndidi
WINNER: Shine On Sarah McLachlan