Canadian artists took home three Grammy Awards, all of which came during the pre-telecast portion of the ceremonies on Sunday.
Drake won two Grammy Awards, bring his career tally to three, for “Hotline Bling” in the categories of Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Performance. He was unable to collect the awards in person due to being on tour in Europe (Manchester last night before two nights at the O2 in London starting Tuesday night) sending producer Paul Jefferies, who works under the name Nineteen85, to claim the prize and plug Drake’s upcoming release.
Drake’s anticipated project “More Life” is expected to arrive on streaming music services soon. While playing a concert last week he told the audience he was about two weeks away from finishing it, adding further anticipation for a release that was originally slated for last December.
After eight nominations, the London, Ont.-born songwriter and producer Bernie Herms finally enjoyed the sweet taste of Grammy Awards glory when he pocketed his first win for “Thy Will”, a song he created with Hillary Scott and the Scott Family. It won best contemporary Christian music performance.
And while Leonard Cohen’s final album “You Want It Darker” missed qualifying for this year’s Grammys by about three weeks he was still there in spirit.
Folk singer Judy Collins sat behind a grand piano as she recalled a memory of her long-time friend and collaborator, and the first time she encountered his song “Suzanne.”
“He came into my living room and said, ‘I can’t play the guitar and I can’t sing,” she said. “And I don’t know if this is a song.”
She then drifted into a performance of the Montreal poet’s famed song paying tribute to the legend.
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You can find the full list of winners at
https://www.grammy.com/nominees
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Didn’t watch.
Nor did I, but It’s not shown in the UK until 8pm tonight.
Good morning!
I didn’t watch either but I will catch up with clips. Thanks for the report on our Canadians Garf.
I was hoping there would be more Canadian wins to report on
That would have been nice. Oh well.
Good morning everyone! Greetings from Bend, Oregon.
Hello back to Bend, Oregon. And you as well Justin.
Good morning! I also didn’t watch the Grammy’s but did enjoy reading all the tweets without context about them! It’s too bad there weren’t more Canadian winners,
Hi Janet.
Slow Monday morning over here. How’s everyone else doing? How were your weekends?
The play went very well and kept me busy for a couple weeks. After the last show on Saturday night we had to tear down and carry everything downstairs. It was a huge set with lots of props. Whew! Theatre is hard work. haha!
Yesterday I stayed home and relaxed all day and then Devin and I went over to The Dude’s to watch Walking Dead together. It’s kind of our “family time”.
My weekend was pretty quiet, tried to get some work done on a paper, but really just procrastinated.
Glad to hear the play went well!
I had a moment of panic when the phone didn’t ring at first on Friday night’s show. I had tested it before the show and it was fine but it didn’t work on the first ring. The stage hand had plugged in one more thing after I tested it and it just needed a wiggle to get it going again. It was fine after that. Luckily they had a back up phone sound in the booth but it was a bit delayed. Other than that it went pretty smooth and was fun to be a part of.
My weekend was great! I am leaving Portland and moving back to Bend…I met up with a bunch of friends Saturday night in Portland for good beer and food at my favourite place. In the meantime I am going to spend a couple months in Phoenix first. So, I’m in Bend for a couple weeks before I drive down south. I will very much like the sun and warmth!
That sounds fantastic Justin!
Have I shared this video here yet? Some Regina local artists collaborated and made this video. I love all these guys! How about Keiffer’s baritone voice at the start?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJm7BGFB8i4
That bar it was filmed at is 2 blocks from where I work.
I thought about posting that here when you posted it on facebook
I got distracted. hehe
squirrel?
Yup. I was going to say squirrel.
Wayhome announced their line-up. Looks pretty great!
http://lineup.wayhome.com/
Would love to go to Wayhome this year, great lineup!
Searchlight voting begins tomorrow.
Racoon….
Where?
I just managed to spill tea on myself, in other news I am warm now (and damp in places I don’t want to be damp)
Who let the raccoon in!?
Since you are here, have a cookie
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