McGillians up for Junos
The roster of nominations for the 2008 Juno Awards, to air Sunday, April 6,
includes a number of artists with McGill connections. To wit:
- Arcade Fire, including lead vocalist Win Butler, BA’04, Alternative Album
of the Year, for Neon Bible
- Prof. Matt Haimovitz, Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber
Performance, for After Reading Shakespeare
- Les Voix Baroques (all three members are McGill grads: counter-tenor
Matthew White, BA’98, violinist Chloe Meyers, BMus’98, and cellist Amanda
Keesmaat, Artist Diploma’99), Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral
Performance, for Buxtehude Tricentenary
- Brian Current, BMus’96, Classical Composition of the Year, for This
Isn’t Silence
- Chromeo, including David Macklovitich, BA’00, MA’03, Dance Recording of
the Year, for Fancy Footwork
- Arcade Fire, Group of the Year
- Jeff Wolpert, MMus’98, Recording Engineer of the Year
- Jodi Proznick Quartet (all members are McGill grads: bassist and composer
Jodi Proznick, BMus’98, pianist Tilden Webb, BMus’92, MMus’97, sax player
Stephen Kaldestad, BMus’94, MMus’00, and drummer Jesse Cahill, BMus’99),
Traditional Jazz Album of the Year, for Foundations
- Autorickshaw, including percussionist Patrick Graham, BMus’95, World
Music Album of the Year, for So The Journey Goes
Best of luck to all of our musical McGillians!