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 [...]
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 [...]
Playlist Friday: 2018 Polaris Music Prize Long List
The Polaris Music Prize Long List has been unveiled live at The Drake Hotel in Toronto, Canada! Well over 200 Canadian albums have been narrowed down to 40. You can find the Long List here. [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Long List Playlist
It's Polaris Music Prize time again. I will be bringing it up for the next few months so get used to it. The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours and rewards [...]
Polaris Music Prize 2017
By Darlene Barss Today is the day we discover which artist will win the $50,000 Polaris Music Prize for 2017. I have enjoyed being a part of the Polaris Music Prize process as a juror this year [...]
Playlist Friday: Polaris Music Prize Long List 2017
By Darlene Barss We have two playlists for you this week about the Polaris Music Prize Long List. One has a song representing each of the 40 albums that are on the official Long List. [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Music Prize Top 20
Playlist Friday is about my top 20 choices for the Polaris Music Prize Long List. I have until June 6 to make my choices so I thought I would share with you where I am [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Longlist Playlist
By Darlene Barss The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours and rewards artists who produce Canadian music albums of distinction. A select panel of music critics judge and award the Prize [...]
Kaytranada wins the 2016 Polaris Music Prize
By Regina Sienra Kaytranada, the electronic producer from Montreal, was the winner of the 2016 Polaris Music Prize for his album 99.9%. The gala featured performances by Andy Shauf, Black Mountain, Basia Bulat, Carly Rae [...]
A look back at Polaris Music Prize 2010
By Michael Wynn It was late summer 2010, and my third week as a CBC Radio 3 employee. The indie and alternative wing of the CBC Radio network was going through one of its most [...]