The 2014 Aboriginal People's Choice Music Award Nominees

Inez Jasper garnered the most nominations (five!) followed by Indian City and Shy-Anne (four each!) at the 2014 APCMA nominee announcement. With over 25 Indigenous artists nominated over all, this year is looking as exciting as ever

At Portage Place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manito Ahbee Festival announced the 2014 Aboriginal People's Choice Music Award Nominees. Voting is open now until July 19th - get your vote on at aboriginalpeopleschoice.com - and enormous congratulations from RPM to all the nominees, keep making music!

Best Music Video

• A Tribe Called Red - Sisters
• Genevieve Fisher - Bad Enough
• Inez Jasper - Dancin' on the Run
• Keith Secola - Say Your Name
• Supaman - Prayer Loop Song

Best New Artist

• Crystal J
• Ghost Town Orchestra
• Iceis Rain
• Jasmine Netsena
• Leonard Sumner

Best Peyote CD

• Delbert Blackhorse -Friends & Family
• Joe Tohonnie Jr. - Apache Peyote Songs
• Keving Yazzie - Charity
• Meewasin Oma - God Saw it Was
• Utin Machiskinie and Lance Crowe - Life of Happiness

Best Pop CD

• Indian City - Colors
• Inez Japer - Burn Me Down
• JB the First Lady - Indigenous Girl LifeStyle
• Moodie x 2 - Never Alone
• Red Rockerz - Electronic Gangster

Best Pow Wow CD - Contemporary

• Bear Creek - Kaagige - Forever
• Eastern Eagle - Twenty Years of Powwow
• North Bear - #NBallday
• Northern Cree - Loyalty to the Drum
• Northern Voice - Dance of the Moon
• Young Bear - Live

Best Producer/Engineer

• Christa Couture - The Living Record
• Dallas Arcand - Thunderbird Spirit
• Indian City - Colors
• Inez Jasper - Burn Me Down
• Kristi Lane Sinclair- The Sea Alone
• Samantha Crain - Kid Face

Best Rap/Hip Hop CD

• KASP - K.A.S.P. #Livingthegoodlife
• Mike Bone - Rain Dance
• Shawn Bertrand - Livin Like Stars
• Supaman - Gorilla
• Winnipeg Boyz - Ab Initio

Best Rock CD

• Ghost Town Orchestra - Dead Wait
• Iceis Rain - The Queen
• Kickin Krotch - Kickin Krotch
• Kristi Lane Sinclair - The Sea Alone
• When Darkness Falls - The Power

Single of the Year

• Desiree Dorion - Turn to Me
• Elisapie Isaac - Life is What You Make It
• Inez Jasper - Dancin on the Run
• Samantha Crain - Somewhere All the Time
• Shy-Anne - Be Your Girl

Best Television Program of Aboriginal Music

• Live From the Hundred Years Cafe
• The Candy Show
• Wabanaagig

Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year

• Cary Morin
• Dallas Arcand
• Gary Sappier
• Kasp
• Shy-Anne

Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year

• Desiree Dorion - Mama Got a Shotgun
• Donny Parenteau - Sun Shower
• Genevieve Fisher - Bad Enough
• Indian City - Colors
• Janet Panic - Somewhere Warm

Best Album Cover Design

• Indian City - Colors
• Inez Jasper - Burn Me Down
• JB the First Lady - Indigenous Girl LifeStyle
• Shy-Anne - Bones
• Utin Machiskinie and Lance Crowe - Life of Happiness

Best Blues CD

• Cary Morin - Streamline
• Gary Sappier - Who Ya Foolin
• Joel Johnson - Blues Joose Volume II
• Young Medicine - Be Your Own Person

Best Country CD

• Genevieve Fisher - Bad Enough
• Kelly Derrickson - Warriors of Love
• Leanne Goose - This Time
• Nelson Little - The Little Things
• Shy-Anne - Bones

Best Fiddle CD

• Boyd Benjamin - The FLying Gwitch in Fiddler
• Jason Lepine - Drivin' Force
• Midnight Mist - Still Going

Best Folk/Acoustic CD

• Diyet - When You Were King
• Janet Panic - Most of What Follows is True...
• Jasmine Netsena - Take You With Me
• Leonard Sumner - Rez Poetry
• Samantha Crain - Kid Face

Best Group or Duo

• Garry Sappier
• Ohiwisha
• Winnipeg Boyz
• Young Medicine

Best Hand Drum CD

• Cree Confederation - Piciciwin - Cree Round Dance Songs
• Fawn & Dalla - Blessings
• Nitanis 'Kit' Largo - Serenity
• Northern Cree - Ewipihcihk
• Poundmaker - The Way It Used to Be

Best International Indigenous Release

• Adonis Puentes - Sabor a Cafe
• H'Sao - Oria
• Laetitia Zonzambe - Sanza
• Saina & Geo- Songs of Gaia
• The Imbayakunas - Andean Sol

APCMA 2014 Submissions Now Open

Attention all artists! The 2014 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards has opened its doors to submissions. 

The Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards, aka the annual celebration of Aboriginal music and musicians, as voted by the public, will take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 11th and 12th later this year. Now is the time to submit work in consideration for nomination.

The awards honours the best blues, country, gospel, rock, pop and rap albums, as well as single, songwriter, female entertainer and male entertainers of the year, and more, in what amounts to the biggest glitzy musical bash in Indian Country each year. Submit your work now!

The eligibility period is May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2014. Download the submission form and read all the rules at  aboriginalpeopleschoice.com. Deadline April 30, 2014, 5:00 P.M. Central.

Good luck!

APCMA 2012 Nominees - Aboriginal Female Entertainer Of The Year

An RPM YouTube Playlist of the APMCA 2012 nominees for Aboriginal Female Entertainer Of The Year. Hoka.

Here's another RPM YouTube Playlist focusing on the nominees for the 2012 Aboriginal People's Choice Awards category of Aboriginal Female Entertainer Of The Year. This list includes some of our most powerful female forces in today's Indigenous music culture. Enjoy.

Phyllis Sinclair - Washerwoman's Lament Shy-Anne Hovorka - The Glue Tagaq - (LIVE) Terri Clark - The One Tracy Bone - Women Of Red (LIVE)

APCMA 2012 Nominees - Best Music Video

We have an RPM YouTube playlist of the 2012 Aboriginal People's Choice Awards nominees for Best Music Video.

We've once again reached this chilly part of the year where we choose our favorites in the Aboriginal People's Choice Awards, and this year packs a great selection in all categories. Today we'll look at the nominees for Best Music Video in the 2012 APCMAs.

Beatrice Love - Dirty Game Donny Parenteau - Fiddle Back Cris Derksen - Pow.Wow.Wow Shy-Anne Hovorka - Too Young, Too Late Winnipeg's Most - Winnipeg Boy 

2012 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards Performance Lineup

The complete performance lineup for the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards has been announced.

The 2012 awards broadcast will feature performances by Juno award-winning blues artist Murray Porter, pop-country singer Shy-Anne Hovorka, Indigenous supergroup Indian City and rockers Bruthers of Different Muthers, multi-instrumentalist Donny Parenteau, fiddle player Wesley Hardisty and renowned hoop dancer and flute player Dallas Arcand.

The APCMAs will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba on November 1st and 2nd, 2012. For the seventh year in a row, the awards will be hosted by actor and director Lorne Cardinal.

Online voting for this year's awards closed earlier in September, but here is the full list of this year's nominees: APCMA Nominees 2012.

As CBC Manitoba reported earlier:

"This year's lineup truly brings to life what we're trying to showcase with the festival," said Gloria Spence in a news release. Spence is the general manager of Manito Ahbee, the festival that produces the awards.

Tune in to APTN for the live broadcast of the music on November 2, 2012—and keep it locked to RPM for a full report on this year's award winners.

APCMA Nominees 2012

At a press conference in Winnipeg this morning, the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award nominees were announced. Read the full list of nominees here.

Following a first round of industry votes, the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards (APCMA) announced the official nominees and opened the polls to public voting this morning. To vote for your favourite artists, go to aboriginalpeopleschoice.com. Voting closes September 3rd, and the awards take place November 1st and 2nd in Winnipeg.

Congratulations to all the nominees from RPM! They are:

Best Album Cover Design Chippewa Travellers - Love/Zaagidwin Dallas Arcand - Cedar Flute Electronica: Modern Day Warrior Indian City - Supernation Janet Rogers - Got Your Back Lena Recollet - I Am Woman, Kwe Shy-Anne - Interwoven Roots

Best Blues CD Derek Miller - Derek Miller With Double Trouble Gary Farmer And The Troublemakers - Under The Watertower Joel Johnson - Blues Joose Vol. 1 Murray Porter - Songs Lived & Life Played Priscilla’s Revenge - 3rd Gear

Best Country CD Jerry Sereda - Turn The Country On Ron Loutit - Where I Come From Shy-Anne - Interwoven Roots Terri Clark - Roots And Wings Tracy Bone - Woman Of Red

Best Fiddle CD Blain Constant - Listening From Above Dallas Boyer - Music Metis Fiddler Quartet - North West Voyage Nord Ouest Midnite Mist - A Tribute To Bill Bryant Wesley Hardisty - 12:12

Best Flute CD Dallas Arcand - Sacred Sweetgrass Herman Edward - It’s About Time Tony Duncan - Earth Warrior

Best Folk / Acoustic CD Dark Water Rising - Dark Water Rising Dylan Rysstad - Ghost House Ghostkeeper - Ghostkeeper Janet Panic  - Samples Phyllis Sinclair - Dreams Of The Washerwomen

Best Gospel CD Becky Thomas - Sacred Ground Cheryl Bear - A’ba Dean Powder - Living Proof Yvonne St. Germaine  - Tennessee Sky

Best Group Or Duo Cree Confederation C-Weed Band Indian City Northern Cree Priscilla's Revenge

Best Hand Drum Cd Big River Cree - The Old Way Eastern Eagle - Softer Side Fawn Wood - Iskwewak Indigie Femme - Grandmother Earth, Grandfather Sky Nakoa Heavyrunner & Rocky Morin  - Medicine Line

Best Instrumental Cd Curt Young - Northern Equinox Dallas Arcand - Cedar Flute Electronica: Modern Day Warrior Gabriel Ayala - Shades Of Blue Jeari Czapla - Dear Leonardo Rev Hank - Longhorn

Best International Indigenous Artist Adam James Kiran Ahluwahlia Nrg Rising Steele

Best Music Video Beatrice Love - Dirty Game Donny Parenteau - Fiddleback Cris Derksen  - Pow Wow Wow Shy-Anne - Too Young, Too Late Winnipeg’s Most - Winnipeg Boy

Best New Artist Bruthers Of Different Muthers Indian City Jb The First Lady Kristi Lane Sinclair Lena Recollet

Best Pop Cd Don Amero - The Long Way Home Holly Mcnarland  - Run Body Run Indian City - Supernation Lena Recollet - I Am Woman, Kwe Will Belcourt - Epoch

Best Pow Wow Cd - Contemporary Black Bear - Spring Medicine Cree Confederation - Horse Dance - Mistatim Simoowin Northern Cree - Drum Boy - Mistikwaskink Napesis River Cree - River Cree Young Spirit - Live In Hinckley 2011

Best Pow Wow Cd - Traditional Chippewa Travellers - Love/Zaagidwin High Noon - Live In Brandon Mandaree Singers  - Mandaree Revisited Wild Band Of Comanches  - Wild Band Of Comanches Young Bear - Keeping It Old Style

Best Producer/Engineer Donny Parenteau Indian City Leanne Goose Shy-Anne Vince Fontaine

Best Rap / Hip Hop Cd Blu - No Way No How Lightning Cloud - Lightning Cloud Rellik - Mighty Mouth Tha Link - Tha Link Vibez - On My Way

Best Rock Cd Charles “Chucky” Keelan - Chucky ? Federal Lights - Carbon Quinton Moody - Worldwide Services Sinuupa - Culture Shock Tonemah - Mulligan

Single Of The Year Don Amero - Turn These Grey Skies Blue Indian City - Supernation Iskwe - Wandering Murray Porter - Rez Bluez Shy-Anne - The Glue

Aboriginal Songwriter Of The Year Bruthers Of Different Muthers - Speakers Of Tomorrow Donny Parenteau - Play On Holly Mcnarland - Alone’s Just Fine Indian City - Supernation Murray Porter - Is Sorry Enough? Tracy Bone - Woman Of Red

Aboriginal Female Entertainer Of The Year Phyllis Sinclair Shy-Anne Tagaq Terri Clark Tracy Bone

Aboriginal Male Entertainer Of The Year Dallas Boyer Don Amero Jerry Sereda Kasp Murray Porter

Vote now at aboriginalpeopleschoice.com!

Indigenous Live Music Picks: Nov. 3-6, 2011

This week, Winnipeg is the bustling centre of live Indigenous music with the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards, Aboriginal Music Week and Manito Ahbee festival happening simultaneously.

Derek Miller, Winnipeg's Most, Leela Gilday, Local Onlyz, Gabriel Ayala, Samian, Ali Fontaine - the list goes on of the fantastic artists you can catch during Aboriginal Music Week. The festivities are already underway, with plenty left to take it. For a complete list of this weekend AMW 2011 shows, see Manito Ahbee Festival 2011: Aboriginal Music Week Schedule and Lineup.

The votes have been tallied and finally the results will be announced! The Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards take place Thursday and Friday night:

Thursday November 3 - RBC Ohshkii Awards Night at Fort Garry Place, 222 Broadway Ave, Winnipeg, MB, 6pm.

Friday November 4 - Red Carpet starts at 6pm, the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards starts at 7pm at the MTS Centre, 300 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB.

Part presenters of the APCMAs, the Manito Ahbee festival also presents Education Days, Indigenous Marketplace and Trade Show, as well as an International Competition Powwow - grand entry at noon at the MTS Centre, Winnipeg, MB. For more information visit manitoahbee.com.