Tenille Townes looks forward to Alberta homecoming with 7 CCMA Awards nominations
Tenille Townes is as soon as once more the front-runner on the Canadian Nation Music Affiliation Awards, and that provides her one more reason to come back residence to Alberta and see her household.
“Any time I get to hug the grandparents is fairly nice,” mentioned the Nashville-based singer-songwriter from Grande Prairie, who racked up seven nominations on Wednesday.
“It at all times feels good to the touch down wherever in Canada.”
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Townes inched forward of fellow main nominees for the awards present, which fits down in Calgary later this summer season. Jade Eagleson, the Alberta-based singer raised in Bailieboro, Ont., holds six nods whereas the James Barker Band has 5.
Nation music singer Tenille Townes performs throughout Canada Day celebrations at LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, on Friday, July 1, 2022.
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The classes the place Townes will compete embody single and music video of the 12 months for her tune “Woman Who Didn’t Care,” in addition to album of the 12 months for Masquerades, a venture she penned through the isolation interval of the pandemic.
“It undoubtedly appears like pages of my journal,” she mentioned.
“I couldn’t assist the way in which that the songs had been extra reflective and popping out extra personally this time round, which was sort of terrifying to share.”
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Townes additionally landed nods for feminine artist, songwriter, entertainer of the 12 months and one other for her nation particular “Christmas Time With Tenille Townes.”
The 28-year-old nation singer is a favorite of the CCMA Awards and most lately led the nominees on the 2020 ceremony. She has 9 CCMA trophies on her mantle.
Following carefully behind on this 12 months’s leaderboard is Eagleson whose six nominations embody two within the single of the 12 months class — for his solo observe “All Evening To Determine It Out” and for “Extra Drinkin’ Than Fishin’,” a collaboration with Dean Brody.
Brody and Brett Kissel every have 4.
The CCMA Awards will happen Sept. 11 at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary and are broadcast dwell on International. Along with Townes, performers embody Excessive Valley, MacKenzie Porter and Nineteen Nineties boy band 98 Levels, who will carry out with Kissel on his new single “Ain’t the Identical.”
For single of the 12 months, the nominees are Townes, Eagleson’s two tracks, in addition to Kissel for “Make A Life, Not A Residing,” Aaron Goodvin for “Boy Like Me,” James Barker Band with “Over All Over Once more” and Shawn Austin for “Tailgate to Heaven,” that includes Chris Lane.
Album of the 12 months contains Gord Bamford’s Diamonds in a Whiskey Glass, Meghan Patrick’s Coronary heart On My Glass, Jade Eagleson’s Honkytonk Revival, Don Amero’s Nothing is Meaningless, and Townes for Masquerades.
The artists competing for entertainer of the 12 months are Kissel, James Barker Band, Tenille Arts, Dallas Smith, and Townes.
The CCMA Awards are voted upon by the membership.
