Tenille Towns I am once again the front runner Canadian Country Music Association AwardsAnd it gives him another reason to come home to Alberta and see his family.
“It’s great whenever I get a chance to hug grandparents,” said Grand Prairie’s Nashville-based singer-songwriter, who garnered seven nominations on Wednesday.
“It’s always nice to be touched anywhere in Canada.”
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Towns is ahead of fellow major nominees for the awards show, which goes down in Calgary later this summer. Jade Eagleson, an Alberta-based singer raised in Bellyboro, Ont., holds six nods while the James Barker Band has five.
Country music singer Tenille Townes performs during Canada Day celebrations at LeBreton Flats on Friday, July 1, 2022 in Ottawa.
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The categories in which Towns will compete include the single and music video for her song “Girl Who Didn’t Care” as well as album of the year. hiddenA project she wrote during the period of pandemic isolation.
“It definitely feels like the pages of my magazine,” she said.
“I couldn’t help the way the songs were more reflective and coming across more personally this time, which was awesome to share.”
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Towns also earned nominations for Female Artist, Songwriter, Entertainer of the Year and for her country special “Christmas Time with Tennacle Towns”.
The 28-year-old country singer is a CCMA Awards favorite and most recently led the nominees at the 2020 ceremony. He has nine CCMA trophies.
Trailing this year’s leaderboard is Eagleson, whose six nominations include two in the Singles of the Year category – for his singles track “All Night to Figure It Out” and “More Drinkin’ Than Fishin'”, in collaboration with Dean Brody. .
Brody and Brett Kissel each have four.
The CCMA Awards will take place on September 11 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary and will be broadcast live on Global. In addition to Towns, artists include High Valley, Mackenzie Porter and the 1990s boy band 98 Degrees, who will perform with Kissel on their new single “Ain’t the Same”.
For Single of the Year, the nominees are Towns, two of Eagleson’s tracks, as well as “Make a Life, Not a Living”, Aaron Goodwin for “Boy Like Me”, “Over All Over Again” with James Barker Band and Sean Austin for “Tailgate to Heaven” featuring Kissel Chris Lane.
Album of the Year features Gord Bamford diamonds in a whiskey glassMeghan Patrick heart on my mirrorJade Eagleson honkytonk revivalDon Amero’s nothing is meaninglessand Townes for hidden,
Competing artists for Entertainer of the Year are Kissle, James Barker Band, Tenille Arts, Dallas Smith and Towns.
Voting on the CCMA Awards is done by membership.
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