The Polaris Prize to honor the best in Canadian music will be awarded Monday night, Sept. 21st in a live ceremony. The Polaris was created a few years ago to recognize the album with the highest level of artistic merit regardless of commercial success, and gives a $20,000 cash prize. Who will win? You can find out by watching the Polaris Prize ceremony live at the CBC Web site, www.radio3.cbc.ca, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Here is the shortlist of Polaris nominees, one of whom will walk away with the big prize:
* Artist: Elliott BROOD - Album: Mountain Meadows
* Artist: Fucked Up - Album: The Chemistry Of Common Life
* Artist: Great Lake Swimmers - Album: Lost Channels
* Artist: Hey Rosetta! - Album: Into Your Lungs (and around your heart and on through your blood)
* Artist: K'NAAN - Album: Troubadour
* Artist: Malajube - Album: Labyrinthes
* Artist: Metric - Album: Fantasies
* Artist: Joel Plaskett - Album: Three
* Artist: Chad VanGaalen - Album: Soft Airplane
* Artist: Patrick Watson - Album: Wooden Arms
You can also see the long list of Polaris Prize nominees to see who didn't make the final cut. Some pretty good albums were left out, including Leonard Cohen's live album and releases by Land of Talk, Japandroids, The Stills, and Martha Wainwright.
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