New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) Steve Jordan, Founder and Executive
Director of the Polaris
Music Prize, is pleased to reveal details about the 7th annual Polaris
Music Prize Gala, taking place on
September 24th at the Concert Hall Studios at Bell Media's Masonic Temple. The entire event will stream live on Muchmusic.com and will be broadcast live exclusively on SiriusXM radio (Sirius channels 151 and 152; XM channel 151) and CBC
Radio 3. At the end of the evening, the winner will be announced and awarded the $30,000 prize. Nine secondary prizes of $2000 will be provided by Slaight Music. The winner will also get a one week free rental of a VIP
Deluxe Splitter tour bus - for their next European tour - courtesy of Studio Moves from London, UK. Highlights from the gala will air in a one-hour special, exclusively on MuchMusic, on Saturday,
September 29 at 10pm ET.
The evening will include performances by Short List nominees Cadence Weapon, Cold Specks, Kathleen Edwards, Feist, Fucked Up,
Grimes and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. Nominees Handsome Furs will also be in attendance. Japandroids, who are on tour in Europe, have sent their regrets. As of the date of this press release,
Drake has not committed to attending. Members of
Arcade Fire will also be there to announce this year's winner.
On the night of the gala, a Grand Jury of 11 people will be sequestered upstairs in the Red Room of The Masonic Temple to discuss, debate and determine a winner. The Grand Jury is chosen from the larger jury of over 200 music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers. This year's Grand Jury is: Gregory Adams (Georgia Straight), Michael Barclay (Maclean's,
Radio Free Canuckistan), Chris Bilton (The Grid), Ryan Bresee (CKCU 93.1fm), Lisa Christiansen (CBC
Radio 1), Shawn Conner (The Snipe News), Melissa Hetu (TFO),
Kevin Laforest (Freelance, ex-Hour), Ryan B. Patrick (Freelance), Tabassum Siddiqui (Freelance) and
Nicole Villeneuve (AUX TV).
Once again guests will gorge on custom grilled cheese and perogies by Shanghai Cowgirl.
Past winners of the Polaris
Music Prize are:
Arcade Fire (2011), Karkwa (2010), Fucked Up (2009),
Caribou (2008), Patrick Watson (2007) and Final Fantasy (2006).
The 2012 Polaris
Music Prize Short List is (in alphabetical order):
Cadence Weapon - Hope In Dirt City
Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Drake - Take Care
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
Feist - Metals
Fucked Up -
David Comes To Life
Grimes - Visions
Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - YT//ST
About the Polaris
Music Prize
The Polaris
Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours, celebrates and rewards creativity and diversity in Canadian recorded music by recognizing, then marketing the albums of the highest artistic integrity, without regard to musical genre, professional affiliation, or sales history, as judged by a panel of selected music critics. https://www.polarismusicprize.ca
