Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group

The Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group was presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the roots and/or traditional music genres. The award was first presented in 1996 under the name Best Roots & Traditional Album - Group, and adopted its current name in 2003.^{[citation needed]} Prior to 1996, the Junos presented only a single award in the category, inclusive of both groups and solo artists, under the name Best Roots & Traditional Album.

Beginning with the 2016 ceremony, two new awards categories (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year and Traditional Roots Album of the Year) were introduced to "ensure two genres of music are not competing against each other in the same category".^[1]

Winners

Best Roots & Traditional Album - Group (1996 - 2002)

Year	Winner(s)	Album	Nominees	Ref.
1996	The Irish Descendants	Gypsies & Lovers	Great Big Sea, Up The Paperboys, Late As Usual Orealis, Night Visions The Wyrd Sisters, Inside the Dreaming
1997	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	Matapédia	Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, High or Hurtin' La Bottine Souriante, En Spectacle Bill Bourne and Shannon Johnson, Victory Train Rawlins Cross, Living River
1998	The Paperboys	Molinos	Great Big Sea, Play James Keelaghan and Oscar Lopez, Compadres Leahy, Leahy Wyrd Sisters, Raw Voice
1999	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	The McGarrigle Hour	Bourque, Bernard et Lepage, Matapat Heartbreak Hill, Heartbreak Hill Puirt a Baroque, Return of the Wanderer Zubot and Dawson, Strang
2000	Blackie and the Rodeo Kings	Kings of Love	Barachois, Encore! La Bottine Souriante, Xième Great Big Sea, Turn Scruj MacDuhk, The Road to Canso
2001	Tri-Continental	Tri-Continental	Barra MacNeils, Racket in the Attic The Paperboys, Postcards La Volée d'Castors, VDC Zubot and Dawson, Tractor Parts: Further Adventures in Strang
2002	La Bottine Souriante	Cordial	The Brothers Cosmoline, Songs of Work & Freedom Matapat, Petit fou Undertakin' Daddies, Post Atomic Hillbilly The Wyrd Sisters, Sin & Other Salvations

Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group (2003 - 2015)

Year	Winner(s)	Album	Nominees	Ref.
2003	Zubot and Dawson	Chicken Scratch	The Bill Hilly Band, All Day Every Day The Corb Lund Band, Five Dollar Bill The Duhks, Your Daughters and Your Sons John Reischman and the Jaybirds, Field Guide
2004	Le Vent du Nord	Maudite Moisson	Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, BARK La Bottine Souriante, J'ai jamais tant ri Creaking Tree String Quartet, The Creaking Tree String Quartet Pierre Schryer Band, Blue Drag
2005	The Wailin' Jennys	40 Days	The Bills, Let Em Run Leahy, In All Things Nathan, Jimson Weed La Volée d'Castors, Migration
2006	The Duhks	The Duhks	Elliott Brood, Ambassador Genticorum, Malins plaisirs Great Big Sea, The Hard and the Easy Sexsmith and Kerr, Destination Unknown
2007	The McDades	Bloom	Be Good Tanyas, Hello Love Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Let's Frolic The Dukhs, Migrations The Wailin' Jennys, Firecracker
2008	Nathan	Key Principles	James Keelaghan and Oscar Lopez, ¿Buddy, Where You Been? Harry Manx and Kevin Breit, In Good We Trust Ellen McIlwaine with Cassius Khan, Mystic Bridge John Reischman and the Jaybirds, Stellar Jays The Sadies, New Seasons
2009	Chic Gamine	Chic Gamine	The Duhks, Fast Paced World Elliott Brood, Mountain Meadows NQ Arbuckle, XOK Twilight Hotel, Highway Prayer
2010	The Good Lovelies	The Good Lovelies	Annie Lou, Annie Lou Great Lake Swimmers, Lost Channels Madison Violet, No Fool for Trying Carolyn Mark and NQ Arbuckle, Let's Just Stay Here
2011	Le Vent du Nord	La part du feu	Chic Gamine, City City Creaking Tree String Quartet, Sundogs Dala, Girls from the North Country- Dala Live in Concert The Marigolds, That's the State I'm In
2012	The Wailin' Jennys	Bright Morning Stars	The Deep Dark Woods, The Place I Left Behind The Good Lovelies, Let the Rain Fall The Once, Row Upon Row of the People They Know Twilight Hotel, When the Wolves Go Blind
2013	Elliott Brood	Days Into Years	Great Lake Swimmers, New Wild Everywhere The Strumbellas, My Father and the Hunter Le Vent du Nord, Tromper le temps The Wooden Sky, Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun
2014	The Strumbellas	We Still Move on Dance Floors	Lee Harvey Osmond, The Folk Sinner Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five, Bison Ranch Recording Sessions The Devin Cuddy Band, Volume One The Wilderness of Manitoba, Island of Echoes
2015	The Bros. Landreth	Let It Lie	Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, South The Deep Dark Woods, Jubilee Elliott Brood, Work and Love The Once, Departures

References

1. "42nd Annual Juno Awards: 2016 CARAS Quick Reference Guide to the Submission Process" (PDF). JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2016.