The Canadian Folk Music Awards celebrate their 20th anniversary in Ottawa/Gatineau

The mission of the Canadian Folk Music Awards is to celebrate and promote Canadian folk music in all its forms. Until their creation in 2005, there existed no awards to celebrate the breadth and depth of folk music in Canada. Awards such as the Junos, East Coast Music Awards or the Western Canada Music Awards have a few categories that apply to folk and roots music but they offer only a restricted view of the genre. The judging process is similar to that of the two-stage elimination model used by the Junos via a randomly selected jury drawn from our community. 

The CFMA 2025 nominees were announced October 29th – if you want to see, if your preferred artist has been nominated view: