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: Drake
Date: March 26, 2011
City: Toronto

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Contemporary Jazz Album Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra
    Treelines
  • Matt Herskowitz Jerusalem Trilogy
  • Kelly Jefferson Quartet Next Exit
  • Adrean Farrugia Ricochet
  • Chet Doxas Big Sky

Traditional Jazz Album Of The Year

  • Winner:
    John MacLeod's Rex Hotel Orchestra
    Our First Set
  • Owen Howard Drum Lore
  • Kirk MacDonald Quartet Songbook Vol.2
  • Earl MacDonald Re: Visions, Works for Jazz Orchestra
  • Félix Stüssi 5 & Ray Anderson Hieronymus

Instrumental Album Of The Year

Francophone Album Of The Year

Children's Album Of The Year

Classical Album Of The Year: Solo Or Chamber Ensemble

  • Winner:
    Gryphon Trio
    Beethoven : Piano Trios Op. 70 No. 1, Ghost & No. 2: Op 11
  • Winona Zelenka Bach : Six Suites for Solo Cello
  • Marc Andre Hamelin Marc-Andre Hamelin- Etudes
  • Amici Ensemble Armenian Chamber Music
  • Anton Kuerti Anton Kuerti : Schumann

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

  • Winner:
    Lara St. John
    Mozart/Scott and Lara St. John/The Knights
  • Les Violons du Roy under Bernard Labadie Bonbons
  • Janina Fialkowska and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey Chopin Piano Concertos
  • James Ehnes James Ehnes Plays Mendelssohn
  • Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà Arvo Pärt : Portrait

Classical Album Of The Year: Vocal Or Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Gerald Finley
    Great Operatic Arias
  • musica intima Into Light
  • Measha Brueggergosman Night and Dreams
  • Karina Gauvin Britten- Les Illuminations
  • Ensemble Caprice Salsa baroque

Classical Composition Of The Year

  • Winner:
    R. Murray Schafer
    Duo For Violin And Piano, WILD BIRD
  • Peter-Anthony Togni Quomodo Sedet Sola Civita (How doth the city sit solitary), LEMENTATIO JEREMIAE
  • Larysa Kuzmenko Piano Concerto, 3 CONCERTI
  • Jocelyn Morlock Exaudi, INTO LIGHT
  • Clark Ross Last Dance, PIANO ATLANTICA

Reggae Recording Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Elaine Lil’Bit Shepherd
    Likkle But Mi Tallawah
  • Tonya P Don’t Want to Go
  • Tony Anthony Million Chance
  • Lyndon John X (LJX) Brighter Days
  • Dubmatix System Shakedown

Aboriginal Album Of The Year

Roots & Traditional Album Of The Year: Solo

Roots & Traditional Album Of The Year: Group

  • Winner: Le Vent du Nord La part du feu
  • The Marigolds That’s the State I’m In
  • The Creaking Tree String Quartet Sundogs
  • Chic Gamine City City
  • Dala Girls from the North Country- Dala Live in Concert

Blues Album Of The Year

Contemporary Christian/gospel Album Of The Year

World Music Album Of The Year

Jack Richardson Producer Of The Year

Recording Engineer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Kevin Churko
    Let It Die
  • Mike Plotnikoff What Do You Got?
  • Lenny De Rose Captive
  • Jeff Wolpert On A Bright May Morning
  • David Travers-Smith Cold Outside

Recording Package Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Justin Peroff, Robyn Kotyk & Joe McKay (Art Directors/Designers); Jimmy Collins & Elisabeth Chicoine (Photographers)
  • Vincent Morisset (Art Director) Caroline Robert (Designer); Gabriel Jones (Photographer)
  • James Mejia (Art Director/Designer/Illustrator)
  • Graeme Patterson (Art Director)
  • Corri-Lynn Tetz (Art Director)
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