Sure awards season is long since over but the most prestigious prize in Canadian Music is just getting warmed up. The 2008 jury for the Polaris Music Prize was announced today.
This is the third year for the prize, which awards $20,000 for the best Canadian album based solely on artistic merit. Better still, "no one with a direct financial interest in musical artists (i.e. managers, record labels, agents and music publishers) are involved in the selection process." Toronto's Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) took the award in 2006 and Montreal's Patrick Watson took last year's prize.
This year, for the first time, the long list will be announced ahead of time (on June 12) and the short list will be announced on July 7.
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