Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award

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The Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award is an annual Canadian award, presented to the year's best song by an emerging singer-songwriter from Ontario in the genres of roots, traditional, folk and country music. [1] The award, created in memory of Canadian country singer Colleen Peterson, is sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals (OCFF), and is presented to a songwriter selected from 15 nominations put forward by the OCFF's Songs from the Heart songwriting competition, [2] excluding overall winners of the Galaxie Rising Stars Awards. The award was initially funded in part by royalties from the sale of Postcards from California, a posthumous album collecting some of Peterson's unreleased demo recordings. [3]

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The award was presented for the first time in 2003.

Winners

Ariana Gillis, the winner of the award in 2012, is the daughter of 2004 winner David Gillis. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Performers band together in name of Colleen Peterson". Toronto Star , October 3, 2002.
  2. ↑ "Folk festival accepting entries for awards". Waterloo Chronicle, May 7, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Music of Canadian country legend found and released years after her death". Lindsay This Week, October 5, 2004.
  4. ↑ "First Peterson songwriting award to evalyn parry". Peterborough Examiner , October 10, 2003.
  5. ↑ "Peterson Award goes to Vineland musician". Peterborough Examiner , October 21, 2004.
  6. ↑ "Night of the guitar returns". Cowichan News Leader, February 13, 2008.
  7. ↑ "Roots welcomes Wilson to the stage". Vernon Morning Star, September 26, 2008.
  8. ↑ "Ottawa singer wins songwriting award". Ottawa Citizen , October 17, 2009.
  9. ↑ "Folk artist Lynne Hanson performs at Old Church on Saturday". Quinte EMC, January 19, 2017.
  10. 1 2 "'Music is it for me'". Niagara This Week, October 14, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Local singer Leila Goldberger wins Colleen Peterson Songwriting award" Archived December 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine . Metro , October 21, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Toronto's Ken Yates Receives 2014 Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award". Ontario Arts Council, October 15, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Toronto roots-rock band shakes it up on new album". Times & Transcript , May 2, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Abigail Lapell and the power of melody". Waterloo Region Record , January 13, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Music News Digest, Oct. 20, 2017". FYI Music News, October 20, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award Laureates". Ontario Arts Council. 2016. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017.
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