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]
The award was presented for the first time in 2003.
Winners
- 2003 – Evalyn Parry, "The Stone and the Bumblebee"[4]
- 2004 – David Gillis, "A Mouse's Crumb"[5]
- 2005 – Lori Cullen and Brian MacMillan, "Away So Long"
- 2006 – Andy Sheppard, "Until Next Time"[6]
- 2007 – Brooke Miller, "Two Soldiers"[7]
- 2008 – Chris MacLean, "Feet Be Still"
- 2009 – Kyrie Kristmanson, "Song X"[8]
- 2010 – Lynne Hanson, "Rest of My Days"[9]
- 2011 – Alise Marlane, "L'aurore boréale"
- 2012 – Ariana Gillis, "Dream Street"[10]
- 2013 – Leila Goldberger, "Sisters"[11]
- 2014 – Ken Yates, "The One That Got Away"[12]
- 2015 – Graydon James, "Couldn't Be Any Worse"[13]
- 2016 – Abigail Lapell, "Jordan"[14]
- 2017 – Noosa Al-Sarraj, "Pincushion Soldier"[15]
- 2018 – Lora Bidner, "3,000 Volts"[16]
- 2019 - Suzanne Jarvie, "All in Place"
- 2020 - Danielle Knibbe, "Footnote"
- 2021 - Julie Title, "Ghost"
- 2022 - Camie, "Winter"
Ariana Gillis, the winner of the award in 2012, is the daughter of 2004 winner David Gillis.[10]
References
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