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: Steven Page, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn
Date: April 13, 2002
City: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Aboriginal Recording Of The Year

Album Designer Of The Year

Best Blues Album

  • Winner: Colin Linden Big Mouth
  • Rita Chiarelli Breakfast at Midnight
  • Paul Reddick and The Sidemen Rattlebag
  • Michael Jerome Browne Drive On
  • Mel Brown, Snooky Pryor Double Shot!

Best Children's Album

  • Winner:
    Susan Hammond
    A Classical Kids Christmas
  • The Just Kidding Band Chase a Rainbow
  • Judy & David Red's in the Hood
  • Judy & David Songs from the Boom Box
  • Aaron Burnett Call of the Wild

Best Classical Album - Solo Or Chamber Ensemble

  • Winner:
    Angela Hewitt
    Bach Arrangements
  • Accordes String Quartet Somers String Quartets
  • Marc Andre Hamelin Schumann: Fantasy in C Major
  • Janina Fialkowska Transcendental Liszt
  • Jane Coop, piano and Andrew Dawes, violin Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano & Violin

Best Classical Album: Large Ensemble Or Soloist(s) With Large Ensemble Accompaniment

  • Winner:
    James Ehnes, violin, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal
    Max Bruch, Concertos 1 & 3
  • Stepan Arman, violin, I Musici de Montreal Myaskovsky / Schinittke / Denisov
  • Les Violons Du Roy J.S. Bach: Art of the Fugue
  • Jane Coop, piano, CBC Radio Orchestra English Piano Concerti: Britten, Rawsthorne, Ireland, Finzi
  • James Ehnes, violin, Orchestre Symphonique du Quebec Concert Francais

Best Classical Album: Vocal Or Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Ben Heppner
    Airs Francais
  • Wendy Nielsen Forgotten Songs, Forgotten Loves
  • Monica Whicher, soprano, Robert Cram, flute and various soloists Singing Somers Theatre
  • Karina Gauvin, soprano, CBC Radio Orchestra Exsultate, Jubilate
  • Daniel Taylor Handel: Sacred Arias

Best Classical Composition

  • Winner:
    Chan Ka Nin
    Par-ci, par-la Nouveaux Territories
  • Sid Robinovitch Suite for Klezmer Band and Orchestra Klezmer Suite: Music of Sid Robinovitch
  • Peter Paul Koprowski Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Redemption: Peter Paul Koprowski Concerti
  • Owen Underhill Love Songs Celestial Machine
  • Harry Somers Serinette Serinette

Best Contemporary Jazz Album - Instrumental

Best Global Album

Best Instrumental Album

  • Winner:
    Oscar Lopez
    Armando's Fire
  • Richard Abel Inspiration Classique
  • Kenny Vehkavaara Fiesta Del Sol
  • Dan Gibson, John Herberman The English Country Garden
  • Dan Gibson & David Bradstreet Angel's Embrace

Best Music Of Aboriginal Canada Recording

  • Winner:
    Eagle & Hawk
    On and On
  • Sandy Scofield Riel's Road
  • Nakoda Lodge Dark Realm
  • Marcel Gagnon Crazy Maker
  • Billy Joe Green My Ojibway Experience, Strength & Hope

Best New Country Artist/group

Best Raggae Recording

Best Rap Recording

Best Roots & Traditional Album - Group

  • Winner:
    La Bottine Souriante
    Cordial
  • Undertakin' Daddies Post Atomic Hillbilly
  • The Wyrd Sisters Sin & Other Salvations
  • The Brothers Cosmoline Songs of Work & Freedom
  • Matapat Petit fou

Best Roots & Traditional Album - Solo

  • Winner:
    David Francey
    Far End of Summer
  • Penny Lang Gather Honey
  • Maria Dunn For a Song
  • Eileen McGann Beyond the Storm
  • April Verch Verchuosity

Best Selling Francophone Album

Best Vocal Jazz Album

Blues Album Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Jack de Keyzer
    6 String Lover
  • The Twisters Long Hard Road
  • Kenny Blue Boss Wayne 88th & Jump Street
  • Fathead First Class Riff-Raff
  • Harry Manx Wise and Otherwise

Children's Album Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Fred Penner
    Sing with Fred
  • Judy & David Once Upon a Time - Volume 3 - Beanstock
  • Raffi Let's Play
  • Pelican Music Project Dodo la planete do dream songs night songs
  • Charlotte Diamond Nous sommes tous comme les fleurs

Classical Album Of The Year - Large Ensemble Or Soloist(s) With Large Ensemble

  • Winner:
    James Ehnes, Marion Bernardi, Orchestre symphonique de Montreal
    Bruch Concertos: Vol. II
  • Tafelmusik A Baroque Feast
  • I Musici de Montreal Nocturnal Dances of Don Juan Quixote
  • Anton Kuerti, Mario Bernardi, CBC Radio Orchestra Schumann Piano Works
  • Angela Cheng, Mario Bernardi, CBC Radio Orchestra The Overcoat: Music by Dmitri Shostakovich

Classical Album Of The Year - Solo Or Chamber Ensemble

Classical Album Of The Year - Vocal Or Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Les Violons Du Roy
    Mozart Requiem
  • Susie LeBlanc i Ay Que Si!
  • Richard Margison Margison Sings Verdi
  • Michael Schade Of Ladies and Love...
  • Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music Bach Cantatas

Classical Composition Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Bramwell Tovey
    Requiem for a Charred Skull
  • John Estacio Test Run
  • Heather Schmidt Concerto for Cello
  • Christos Hatzis Orbitting Garden
  • Alexina Louie Music for a Thousand Autumns

Contemporary Christian/gospel Album Of The Year

Contemporary Jazz Album Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Richard Underhill
    Tales from the Blue Lounge
  • Warren Hill Love Songs
  • NOJO Highwire
  • Mark Duggan's Vuja de Mistura
  • Jean-Pierre Zanella Mother Tree

Dance Recording Of The Year

  • Winner:
    The Sound Bluntz
    Billie Jean
  • Original 3 featuring Corey Hart Sunglasses at Night 2002
  • Mc Mario Freak the Funk
  • Grand Menage Tribalmania
  • Boomtang Wet

Francophone Album Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Daniel Belanger
    Rever Mieux
  • Sylvain Cossette Rendez-vous
  • Natasha St-Pier Da L'amour le mieux
  • Lynda Lemay Les Lettres Rouges
  • Les Cowboys Fringants Break Syndical

Instrumental Album Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Robert Michaels
    Allegro
  • The Swingfield Big Band Big Band Love Songs
  • Oliver Schroer & Dan Gibson Lakeside Retreat
  • Liona Maria Boyd Camino Latino/Latin Journey
  • Howard Baer Celtic Mystique

Rap Recording Of The Year

Recording Engineer Of The Year

Reggae Recording Of The Year

Roots And Traditional Album Of The Year - Group

Roots And Traditional Album Of The Year - Solo

Songwriter Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Hero Too Bad How You Remind Me
    Chad Kroeger
  • These Days Gold in Them Hills Former Glory Ron Sexsmith
  • Take a Message Burning Bridges The Way I Feel Remy Shand
  • Shania Twain I'm Gonna Getcha Good
  • Complicated Sk8er Boi I'm With You Avril Lavigne

Special Achievement Award

  • Winner:
    Michael Cohl

Traditional Jazz Album Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Renee Rosnes
    Life on Earth
  • Rob McConnell Tenet Thank You, Ted
  • Oliver Jones, Skip Bey Then and Now
  • Jane Bunnett, Dewey Redman, Dean Bowman, Larry Cramer, Stanley Cowell, Kieran Overs Spirituals and Dedications
  • Bernard Primeau Montreal Jazz Ensemble Evolution

Vocal Jazz Album Of The Year

World Music Album Of The Year

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