Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ SOCAN Awards) - SOCAN proudly saluted its members' outstanding achievements at the 21st annual SOCAN Awards. SOCAN (The Society of Composers, Authors and
Music Publishers of Canada) proudly saluted its members' outstanding achievements at the 21st annual SOCAN Awards, held on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Montreal Hotel.
'Our annual awards of excellence are providing us with an opportunity to realize that, in spite of our industry's current challenges, musicians of talent, passion and creativity are far from becoming extinct in our community! Tonight, let's pause for a moment to show our winners the appreciation they deserve in the company of our three wonderful hosts Marie-Mai, Jim Corcoran and Jean-Claude Marsan,' SOCAN president Earl Rosen said as he opened the festivities.
As part of this 21st edition, SOCAN awards were presented to authors, composers and music publishers for their 2009 accomplishments in the pop, concert, instrumental, film and television music genres. edith Butler, the fiery performer and best-known ambassador of Acadian poetry and resilience, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Coeur de pirate, the young Quebec singer-songwriter who stole the hearts of music fans in France and throughout the Francophonie, received the International Achievement Award. The Chanson Revelation award went to the five songwriters of Chinatown, while the internationally known lyricist extraordinaire Luc Plamondon was presented with this year's Special Achievement Award.
Several Quebec songs having achieved more than 25,000 radio plays received SOCAN Classics awards, and their creators Louky Bersianik, Richard Seguin, Jim Corcoran, François Cousineau, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Michel Hinton, Pierre Huet, Paul Piche and Stephane Venne were warmly applauded by their peers.
The songwriters being honoured also included the creators of the 10 most performed Francophone rock and pop songs of 2009 in Quebec. They included Steve Veilleux; Yann Perreau; Les Cowboys Fringants members Jerôme Dupras, Marie-Annick Lepine and Jean-François Pauze; Jonathan Painchaud; Jean Leloup; Marc Dupre and his co-writers Jean-François Breau and Fred St-Gelais; Fred Fortin; Marie-Pierre Arthur and her co-writers Gaële and François Lafontaine; and Mes Aïeux members Benoît Archambault, Stephane Archambault, eric Desranleau, Marie-Helène Fortin, Frederic Giroux and Marc-Andre Paquet.
The young instrumental music veteran Steve Barakatt received the Hagood Hardy Award while the internationally renowned concert music composer Gilles Tremblay was presented with the Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award. K.Maro and his co-writer Louis Côte received the Chanson Internationale award for the most internationally successful song of the past year. Film and television music awards were presented to AV composers Normand Corbeil, Raymond Fabi, eric Ranzenhofer, Kevin Tighe, Philippe Leduc, Rudy Toussaint and Guy Trepanier. Karl Wolf received the Chanson Anglophone award for the Quebec-written English-language song having received the most airplay across the country in the past year, and the Partner in Music award went to postedecoute.ca.
A separate awards presentation for Anglophone music creators will be held in Toronto on Monday, November 22.
