Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Music Prize Short List 2020
The Polaris Music Prize Short List will be revealed on Wednesday, July 15. The playlist today has a couple tracks each for 10 albums that I am hoping will be on that list. I was [...]
Polaris Music Prize Long List 2020
Today is the day of the big reveal of the Polaris Music Prize Long List for 2020. The #Polaris2020 Long List reveal takes place at noon ET / 9 am PT via Polaris YouTube and [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Music Prize Long List
It is Polaris Music Prize season and I am anxiously waiting to hear who makes it on to the Long List. The jurors votes are in and the official long list will be announced on [...]
Polaris 2019, The images
As has become the tradition on this site over the last few years, Lenny Wu (aka Wildworks) has been kind enough to share some of the photos he took at the Polaris Music Prize Gala. [...]
Playlist Friday: Polaris Music Prize Short List 2019
It's time to revisit the Polaris Music Prize Short List before the Polaris Gala. Taking place September 16 at The Carlu in Toronto, Polaris Short List-nominated acts FET.NAT, Les Louanges, Haviah Mighty and Snotty Nose [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Long List
We are in the middle of Polaris Music Prize season and I am anxiously waiting to hear who makes it on to the Long List. The jurors votes are in and the official long list [...]
2018 Polaris Music Prize
Jeremy Dutcher has won the 2018 Polaris Music Prize with his album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa on Monday night. The album is so deserving of the award. In my mind when I heard the album and read [...]
Playlist Friday: Polaris Music Prize Short List and Festivals
There are a few playlists for you to listen to this week. Polaris and music festivals are the topics of the day. The first playlist has a couple tracks from each album that made it [...]
Polaris Music Prize Short List Announcement
Today is the day we find out which of the forty longlisted albums will make up the final ten to go forward to the prize gala on September 17th, where the winner of the $50,000 [...]
Playlist Friday: Happy Canada Day!
It is double playlist week again. Canada Day is on this Sunday so I had to bring out the Canada playlist again with a couple new tracks added. It has over five hours of very [...]