Juno Awards of 1999
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{{Infobox award
| name = Juno Awards of 1999
| date = 7 March 1999
| venue = Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario
| host = Mike Bullard
| network = CBC
| previous = 1998
| main = Juno Awards
| next = 2000
}}
The Juno Awards of 1999 honouring Canadian music industry achievements were held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The primary ceremonies at Copps Coliseum on 7 March 1999 were broadcast by CBC Television and hosted by Mike Bullard.
Nominations were announced 27 January 1999 from the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.
CBC technicians under the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada were on strike in early 1999. However, the union chose not to picket the Juno Awards broadcast.
Luc Plamondon was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Nominees and winners
=Best Female Vocalist=
=Best Male Vocalist=
=Best New Solo Artist=
=Best Group=
Winner: Barenaked Ladies
Other Nominees:
=Best New Group=
Winner: Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra
Other Nominees:
=Best Songwriter=
Winner: Bryan Adams, "On a Day Like Today" with Phil Thornalley, "When You're Gone" with Eliot Kennedy
Other Nominees:
- Loreena McKennitt, "The Mummer's Dance"
- Ed Robertson, "One Week"
- Amy Sky, "Love Pain and the Whole Damn Thing" and "Heaven" (both with Steven MacKinnon), "Ordinary Miracles" with David Pickell
- Shania Twain, "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)", "From This Moment On", "You're Still the One" (all with Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
=Best Country Female Vocalist=
=Best Country Male Vocalist=
=Best Country Group or Duo=
Winner: Leahy
Other Nominees:
=International Achievement Award=
Winner: Celine Dion
=Best Producer=
Winner: Colin James "Let's Shout" (with co-producer Joe Hardy) and "C'mon With The C'mon"
Other Nominees:
- Bryan Adams (with Bob Rock), "C'mon, C'mon, C'mon", "How Do Ya Feel Tonight" both by Bryan Adams
- Bruce Fairbairn, "Within" and "I Finally Found My Way" by Kiss
- David Foster, "I Never Loved You Anyway" by The Corrs and "Have You Ever?" by Brandy
- Daniel Lanois, "The Maker" by Willie Nelson
=Best Recording Engineer=
Winner: Kevin Doyle, "Stanstill" by various artists and "Soul On Soul" by Amy Sky
Other Nominees:
- Lenny DeRose, "Hurts to Love You" and "You Stepped on My Life" by Philosopher Kings
- Ormond Jobin, "Desperately" and "If We Had Never Met" by Shirley Eikhard
- Randy Staub, "C'mon, C'mon, C'mon" by Bryan Adams and "Radio" by Copyright
- John Whynot, "Disappointment" and "All in Time" by Jim Cuddy
=Canadian Music Hall of Fame=
Winner: Luc Plamondon
=Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award=
Winner: Allan Waters
Nominated and winning albums
=Best Album=
Winner: Let's Talk About Love, Celine Dion
Other Nominees:
- The Book of Secrets, Loreena McKennitt
- Grand parleur petit faiseur, Kevin Parent
- Happy?, Jann Arden
- Phantom Power, The Tragically Hip
=Best Alternative Album=
Winner: Rufus Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright
Other Nominees:
- Breath from Another, Esthero
- Bring Yourself Up, Bodega
- BTK, BTK
- The Closer I Get, Hayden
=Best Blues Album=
Winner: Blues Weather, Fathead
Other Nominees:
- Big Boy, Carlos del Junco
- Blues Boss Boogie, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne
- Blues Money, Michael Pickett
- Colin James and the Little Big Band II, Colin James
=Best Children's Album=
Winner: Mozart's Magnificent Voyage, Susan Hammond's Classical Kids
Other Nominees:
- Accordelidon, Danielle Martineau
- Celebrate the Music, Sandra Beech
- If Fish Could Sing, Teresa Doyle
- Musical Mystery Machines, Ken Whiteley
=Best Classical Album (Solo or Chamber Ensemble)=
Winner: Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Book 1, Angela Hewitt
Other Nominees:
- Dvorak, Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, The Gryphon Trio
- In Brahms' Apartment, Amici Ensemble
- Medtner: The Complete Piano Sonatas, Marc-André Hamelin
- Telemann: Tafelmusik, Ensemble Arion
=Best Classical Album (Large Ensemble)=
Winner: Handel: Music For The Royal Fireworks, Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon (musical director)
Other Nominees:
- Bartok: Dance Suite, Music for Strings, Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Reverie et Caprice: Violin Romances, Chantal Juillet, Montreal Symphony Orchestra
- Saint-Saëens - Fauré - Roussel, Stéphane Lemelin, CBC Vancouver Orchestra
- Schnittke, Part, Gorecki, I Musici de Montreal
=Best Classical Album (Vocal or Choral Performance)=
Winner: Songs of Travel, Gerald Finley (baritone) and Stephen Ralls (piano)
Other Nominees:
- A Britten Serenade, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), James Sommerville (horn)
- Messiah: The Complete Choruses, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Orchestra
- Musica Intima, Musica Intima
- Vivaldi: Motets for Soprano, Karina Gauvin (soprano)
=Best Album Design=
Winner: Andrew McLachlan, Rob Baker, Brock Ostrom, Bernard Clark, David Ajax, Phantom Power by The Tragically Hip
Other Nominees:
- David Ashcroft, Ivan Otis, Margaret Malandruccolo, Three Seeds by New Meanies
- Steve Goode, David Anthony, Since When by 54-40
- John Rummen, Jay Blakesburg, Stunt by Barenaked Ladies
- Hugh Syme, Geddy Lee, Andrew MacNaughton, Different Stages by Rush
=Best Gospel Album=
Winner: Life Is, Sharon Riley and Faith Chorale
Other Nominees:
- Follow Him, Toronto Mass Choir
- Listen to the Sound, Lianna Klassen
- Our Message, Selections
- To Whom It May Concern, Expression of Praise
=Best Selling Francophone Album=
Winner: S'il suffisait d'aimer, Celine Dion
Other Nominees:
- L'Album du peuple, volume 1, François Perusse
- Enchantée, Carmen Campagne
- Grand parleur petit faiseur, Kevin Parent
- Lynda Lemay, Lynda Lemay
=Best Instrumental Album=
Winner: My Roots Are Showing, Natalie MacMaster
Other Nominees:
- Celtic Awakening, Howard Baer, Dan Gibson
- Celtic Dance, Casadh An tSúgáin (composers Oliver Schroer, John Herberman)
- Vertigo, Jesse Cook
- Whispering Woods, David Bradstreet, Dan Gibson
=Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic)=
Winner: Let's Talk About Love, Céline Dion
Other Nominees:
- Come On Over, Shania Twain
- Ray of Light, Madonna
- Spiceworld, Spice Girls
- Titanic, Music from the Motion Picture, James Horner
=Best Mainstream Jazz Album=
Winner: The Atlantic Sessions, Kirk MacDonald
Other Nominees:
- Cactus, François Bourassa
- Inner Urge, Dave Young Trio
- Kenny and Sonny Live at the Montreal Bistro, The Kenny Wheeler, Sonny Greenwich Quintet
- Siren's Song, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, John Taylor and the Maritime Jazz Orchestra
=Best Contemporary Jazz Album=
Winner: Metalwood 2, Metalwood
Other Nominees:
- Cruel Yet Fair, Hard Rubber Orchestra
- In the Vernacular: The Music of John Carter, François Houle
- Road Stories, Phil Dwyer
- You Are Here, Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra
=Best Roots or Traditional Album - Group=
Winner: The McGarrigle Hour, Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Other Nominees:
- Heartbreak Hill, Heartbreak Hill
- Matapat, Bourque, Bernard et Lepage
- Return of the Wanderer, Puirt a Baroque
- Strang, Zubot & Dawson
=Best Roots or Traditional Album - Solo=
Winner: Heartstrings, Willie P. Bennett
Other Nominees:
- Crazy Old Man, Roy Forbes
- My Roots Are Showing, Natalie MacMaster
- Sally's Dream, Bill Bourne
- Stones, Gordie Sampson
=Best Pop Album=
Winner: Stunt, Barenaked Ladies
Other Nominees:
- Chapter 1: A New Beginning, The Moffatts
- Famous, Rich and Beautiful, Philosopher Kings
- Grand parleur petit faiseur, Kevin Parent
- Happy?, Jann Arden
- Let's Talk About Love, Celine Dion
=Best Rock Album=
Winner: Phantom Power, The Tragically Hip
Other Nominees:
Nominated and winning releases
=Best Single=
Winner: "One Week", Barenaked Ladies
Other Nominees:
- "Adia", Sarah McLachlan
- "Apparitions", Matthew Good Band
- "Hurts To Love You", Philosopher Kings
- "My Heart Will Go On", Celine Dion
=Best Classical Composition=
Winner: "Concerto For Wind Orchestra", Colin McPhee
Other Nominees:
- "Sonata for Viola and Piano". Chris Harman
- "Songs for an Acrobat". Linda Bouchard
- "Tre Vie". Malcolm Forsyth
- "Wine of Peace: Two Songs for Soprano and Orchestra". John Weinzweig
=Best Rap Recording=
Winner: Northern Touch by Rascalz featuring Choclair, Kardinal Offishall, Thrust, and Checkmate
Other Nominees:
- Built to Last, Maestro
- The Epic, Citizen Kane
- Frankenstein UV, Frankenstein
- Ghetto Concept, The Album, Ghetto Concept
=Best R&B/Soul Recording=
Winner: One Wish by Deborah Cox
Other Nominees:
- Bout Your Love, Glenn Lewis
- I Need Some Time, Kirsten Farkollie
- Rally'n, Jully Black featuring Saukrates
- Tamia, Tamia
=Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording=
Winner: Contact from the Underworld of Redboy, Robbie Robertson
Other Nominees:
- Hearts of the Nations, The 1997 Aboriginal Women's Voices Group
- Message from a Drum, J. Hubert Francis and Eagle Feather
- Thirst, Jani Lauzon
- Welcome to the Playground, TKO
=Best Reggae/Calypso Recording=
Winner: Vision, Frankie Wilmot
Other Nominees:
- Chains and Shackles, Inspector Lenny
- Glorious Ride, Lazah Current
- The Original, DJ Ray
- The Way I Feel, Mystics
=Best Global Album=
Winner: The Message, Alpha Yaya Diallo
Other Nominees:
- Endless, Silk Road Music
- Karsilama, Karsilama
- Por El Sol, Diego Marulanda & Pacande
- Vertigo, Jesse Cook
=Best Dance Recording=
Winner: Broken Bones, Love Inc.
Other Nominees:
- Hands of Time, Temperance
- I Got What It Takes, Jacynthe
- Popcorn, The Boomtang Boys
- Try My Love, Shauna Davis
=Best Video=
Winner: Javier Aguilera, "Forestfire" by David Usher
Other Nominees:
- Ulf Buddensieck, "Lukey" by Great Big Sea and The Chieftains
- Bill Morrison, "Apparitions" by Matthew Good Band
- Floria Sigismondi, "Sweet Surrender" by Sarah McLachlan
- Jeth Weinrich, "Wishing That" by Jann Arden
References
- {{cite news | last=McLaren | first=Leah | pages=D1, D2 | title=Dion leads Juno nominees / Ladies and Twain also up for awards | date=28 January 1999 | work=The Globe and Mail }}
- {{cite news | page=D1 | title=List of 1999 Juno Award nominations | date=28 January 1999 | work=Saskatoon StarPhoenix }}
- {{cite news | last=Saunders | first=Doug | page=A7 | title=CBC negotiations break down; programs feel bite of strike | date=3 March 1999 | work=The Globe and Mail }}
- {{cite news | page=A7 | title=National Report: CBC union won't picket Junos | date=4 March 1999 | work=The Globe and Mail }}
- {{cite news | first=Alexandra | last=Gill | page=A6 | title=Dion elbows out the competition at Junos | date=4 March 1999 | work=The Globe and Mail }}
- {{cite news | page=C2 | title=Complete list of Juno Award winners | date=9 March 1999 | work=The Globe and Mail }}
External links
- {{cite web | url=http://www.chartattack.com/road/reviews/1999/19990307-junos.html | title=Live Reviews: 1999 Juno Awards | publisher=Chart | access-date=26 November 2008 | first=Mike | last=McCann | date=7 March 1999 | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000929012149/http://chartattack.com/road/reviews/1999/19990307-junos.html | archive-date=29 September 2000 }}
- [http://www.junoawards.ca Juno Awards site]
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Category:1999 in Canadian music
Category:History of Hamilton, Ontario