Here Are The Best Photos From This Year’s Juno Awards With Very Little Reading

April 3, 2017, 10:36am

Photos by the author

This year’s Juno Awards (Canada’s Grammys) were hosted in the country’s capital of Ottawa. I hopped in a van with Dilly Dally to attend the gala and televised award ceremony but also went to shows at JUNOFest, a two-night music festival featuring over 100 artists who played at more than 15 venues across Ottawa. I caught up with Juno nominees Weaves, The Dirty Nil at JUNOFest; bumped into Billy Talent; hungout with Partner; made some jokes with notoriously quiet Andy Shauf; basked in the glow of Basia Bulat; spied on Sam Roberts; and I watched Fred Penner steal a cab from me.

Keeping with a disproportionate amount of women in most award categories, the televised award show was hosted by two men: “Summer Of 69” fame Bryan Adams and Russell Peters. The performers were the actual gems of the limited televised award ceremony, which included new Juno winners A Tribe Called Red with Buffy Sainte-Marie introducing The Halluci Nation and Tanya Tagaq taking the stage with the trio. July Talk gave a rousing and rocking performance, too. And Feist paid a beautiful tribute to Leonard Cohen. We also saw Sarah McLachlan get inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Read this for the full winners list.