About The Show

The Junos recognize excellence in the Canadian Music Industry by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Tune in to watch some of your favorite Canadian artists, with a few international stars mixed in.

Host: Andre-Philippe Gagnon
Date: March 11, 1989
City: Toronto, Ontario

The Nominees

Best Album Graphics

  • Winner:
    Ian Thomas
    Levity
  • Body Electric Walking Through Walls
  • Spoons Vertigo Tango
  • Paul Cram Orchestra Beyond Benghazi
  • 13 Different Multicultural Groups Celebration

Best Children's Album

  • Winner:
    Connie Kaldor, Carmen Campagne
    Lullaby Berceuse
  • Winner:
    Fred Penner
    Fred Penner's Place
  • Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra The Orchestra
  • Susan Hammond, The Toronto Boy's Choir, The Studio Arts Orchestra Mr. Bach Comes to Call
  • Matt Maxwell Le Loup Du Nord
  • Charlotte Diamond Diamonds & Dragons
  • Charlotte Diamond Qu'il Y Ait Toujours Le Soleil

Best Classical Album - Large Ensemble

  • Winner:
    Montreal Symphony Orchestra
    Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
  • Toronto Symphony, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Handel: Messiah
  • Montreal Symphony Orchestra Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bare Moutain
  • Montreal Symphony Orchestra Faure: Requiem
  • Montreal Symphony Orchestra Berlioz: Harold in Italy; Rob Roy & Corsaire Overtures

Best Classical Album - Solo Or Chamber Ensemble

  • Winner:
    Ofra Harnoy
    Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
  • Jane Coop Mozart - Piano Pices
  • Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists Master of the German Baroque
  • Jon Kimura Parker Chopin: Piano Works
  • Desmond Hoebig, Andrew Tunis Beethoven: Music for Cello and Piano
  • Canadian Chamber Ensemble Wagner, Francaix, Dvorak

Best Classical Composition

  • Winner:
    Alexina Louie
    Songs of Paradise Songs of Paradise
  • R. Mrray Schafer Concerto for Harpsichord & Eight Wind Instruments Masquerade
  • Jacques Hetu Symphonie No. 3 Canadian Classics Vol. 2
  • Claude Vivier Siddartha Orchestre Metropolitain
  • Brian Cherney River of Fire Fire of Fire

Best Jazz Album

  • Winner:
    The Hugh Fraser Quintet
    Looking Up
  • Paul Cram Orchestra Beyond Benhazi
  • Karen Young & Michel Donato Contredanse
  • Jean Beaudet Quartet Jean Beaudet Quartet
  • Jane Bunnett In Dew Time

Best R&b / Soul Recording

  • Winner:
    Erroll Starr
    Angel
  • Lorraine Scott Crying for Love
  • Liberty Silver Private Property
  • Candi Dancing Under a Latin Moon
  • Debbie Johnson & Demo Cates Secret Love

Best Reggae / Calypso Recording

  • Winner:
    Lillian Allen
    Conditions Critical
  • Errol Blackwood Give Peace a Chance
  • Elsworth James I Like Calypso
  • Devon Haughton War on Drugs
  • Chester Miller Shedrock

Best Roots & Traditional Album

  • Winner:
    The Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm, Gene Taylor Band
    The Return of the Formily Brothers
  • Spirit Of The West Labour Day
  • Murray McLauchlan Swingin on a Star
  • King Biscuit Boy King Biscuit Boy AKA Richard Newell
  • Downchild It's Been So Long

Best Video

Canadian Entertainer Of The Year

Canadian Music Hall Of Fame

Composer Of The Year

Country Female Vocalist Of The Year

Country Group Or Duo Of The Year

  • Winner:
    The Family Brown
  • Colleen Peterson & Gilles Godard

Country Male Artist Of The Year

Female Vocalist Of The Year

Most Promising Female Vocalist Of The Year

Most Promising Group Of The Year

Most Promising Male Vocalist Of The Year

Producer Of The Year

Recording Engineer Of The Year

Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award

  • Winner:
    Sam Sniderman
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