Congratulations to Local 1000 members!

Congratulations to Local 1000 member Jon Wong of the 24th Street Wailers who recently won a Maple Blues Award for Horn Player of the year. Other Local 1000 members nominated for Maple Blues Awards include Harrison Kennedy (Acoustic Act, Male Vocalist and Singer-Songwriter), Ken Whiteley (Blues With a Feeling), Lindsay Beaver (Drummer of the Year), and Michael Archer, Jon Wong, and Lindsay Beaver of the 24th Street Wailers (Entertainer of the Year). For more on the Maple Blues Awards, visit http://www.mapleblues.ca

Congratulations are also in order to all the nominees for the 2015 Juno awards. Nominees include Local 1000 members Catherine MacLellan (Songwriter of the Year, Roots and Traditional Album – Solo), Tanya Tagaq (Alternative Album of the Year, Aboriginal Album of the Year), James Hill (Roots and Traditional Album – Solo), Raven Kanatakta of Digging Roots (Aboriginal Album of the Year), and Michael Archer, Jon Wong, and Lindsay Beaver of the 24th Street Wailers (Blues Album of the Year). For more on the Juno Awards, visit http://junoawards.ca