Saw this in today's Toronto Star, thought I should share it with you guys on here:
The biggest names in Canadian music converge on Calgary this Sunday for a country-tinged Juno Awards that will see superstars Céline Dion, Avril Lavigne, Feist and Michael Bublé vying for the most hardware.
And as long as they're there, they might as well get along. At least that's how Blue Rodeo front man Jim Cuddy sees it.
Cuddy, who is also a board member of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which handles the Junos, was commenting on a snipe by Anne Murray.
After a glitch left Murray's bestselling Duets: Friends & Legends off the list of Best Album nominees, resulting in six albums vying for the award instead of five, Murray complained that "the person who is not supposed to be in there could conceivably win." The same glitch happened in the Best New Artist category.
"That doesn't seem like a very elegant thing to say," Cuddy said recently.
"It's sort of about the fraternity of musicians being together and if you can put six people in the category, great, I say open up every category to six people, what's the difference? ... I guess it's embarrassing that those things happen, but to me, they're not the most embarrassing things that could happen.
"I've been more embarrassed by shows in the past when they've been so cloying and not try to be inclusive to all types of music and when, I hate to say it, but when Pamela Anderson was the host, that to me is a glaring error. That's not about music. She's a fine person in her own realm, but she was not a good person to have as host. And then it made everybody seem stupid."
This year's show, to be seen live at 8 p.m. on CTV, will be hosted by comic Russell Peters.
The Canadian Presshttp://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/408948
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/408948
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