Winnipeg’s most demo­c­ra­t­ic awards show once again cel­e­brat­es the best of our local music scene, return­ing to Shannon’s Irish Pub on Sat­ur­day April 6^th for it’s 14^th year, fea­tur­ing a stel­lar line-up of free enter­tain­ment and great food and drink specials.

After the reg­u­lar Sat­ur­day after­noon Celtic Jam host­ed by Dale Brown wraps up at 7 the fes­tiv­i­ties get under­way, with the hock­ey game on in the back­ground, dur­ing per­for­mances by Dan Deeds, Lana Win­terhalt, North­ern Roy­als, House Hand­shake, Jam­boree, Ron­nie Ladabrouk & The Elec­tric and the leg­endary Mon­u­ments Galore all for the low low cost of free!

Vot­ing for the twelve-pack of cat­e­gories is now closed and here’s a full list of this year’s win­ners, drawn in a com­plete­ly unbi­ased, non-spe­cif­ic way:

One Voice (Singer-Song­writer) — Lana Win­ter­halt
I M 4 U (Duo / Trio / Group) — Tram­po­line
You Rock, We Roll (Pop / Rock Artist) — Iskwe
Friends (Roots / Folk / Coun­try Artist) — Ker­ji Stephens
Not Frag­ile (Met­al / Punk Artist) — Anom­al­ism
Got­ta Get Up (Hip Hop / Rap Artist) — Alpha Toshineza
Sam­ple & Hold (Instru­men­tal / Expi­ra­men­tal / Elec­tron­ic Artist) — Joe Sil­va
Mag­ic In The Music (World / Indige­nous / Fran­coph­o­ne Artist) — Sebas­t­ian Gaskin
Straw­ber­ry Wine (Soul / R&B / Vocal Artist) — Roman Clarke
Box­ton (Jazz / Clas­si­cal Artist) — Sarah Jo Kirsch
Par­ty In The Sun (Small Fes­ti­val) — Prairie Wind Music Fes­ti­val
Old Times Were Good Times (Album Reis­sue / Band Reunion) — Mon­u­ments Galore

This great cel­e­bra­tion of local music is brought to you by Beer For Break­fast, and proud­ly pre­sent­ed by Big Mom­ma, Big Rock Brew­ery and 101.5 UMFM.