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Juno Awards of 1996
Juno Awards of 1996
Date	10 March 1996
Venue	Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario
Hosted by	Anne Murray
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBC

The Juno Awards of 1996, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 10 March 1996 in Hamilton, Ontario at a ceremony in the Copps Coliseum. Anne Murray was the host for the ceremonies, which were broadcast on CBC Television.

Quebec-based independent classical label Analekta Records boycotted the Junos after failing to receive a Juno nomination after attempts for five years. Analekta claimed its sales were twice that of CBC Records.^[1]

Several record stores such as CD Plus, HMV, Sunrise and Music World also intended to boycott the Junos because competing music retailer Columbia House had signed on as a Juno advertiser.^[2]

Nominations were announced 31 January 1996. Prominent nominees were Alanis Morissette and Shania Twain who had recent internationally successful albums who both won Grammy Awards on 28 February 1996.^[3] Alanis Morissette won in five Juno categories, becoming this year's major winner.^[4]

Nominees and winners

Levi's Entertainer of the Year

Presented by David Clayton-Thomas, Denny Doherty, John Kay, Domenic Troiano and Zal Yanovsky, this award was chosen by a national poll rather than by Juno organisers CARAS.

Winner: Shania Twain

Other Nominees:

Best Female Vocalist

Presented by Russell DeCarle and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Winner: Alanis Morissette

Other Nominees:

Best Male Vocalist

Presented by Susan Aglukark and Kim Mitchell.

Winner: Colin James

Other Nominees:

Best New Solo Artist

Winner: Ashley MacIsaac

Other Nominees:

Group of the Year

This award was presented by Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees The Diamonds and The Crew Cuts

Winner: Blue Rodeo

Other Nominees:

Best New Group

Winner: Philosopher Kings

Other Nominees:

Songwriter of the Year

Winner: Alanis Morissette

Other Nominees:

Best Country Female Vocalist

Presented by George Fox and Charlie Major, this award was accepted on Twain's behalf by her sister Carrie-Anne because she was too sick to attend.

Winner: Shania Twain

Other Nominees:

Best Country Male Vocalist

Winner: Charlie Major

Other Nominees:

Best Country Group or Duo

Winner: Prairie Oyster

Other Nominees:

Best Instrumental Artist

Winner: Liona Boyd

Other Nominees:

Best Producer

Winner: Michael Phillip Wojewoda, "End of the World" by The Waltons; "Beaton's Delight" by Ashley MacIsaac

Other Nominees:

Bryan Adams with co-producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" by Bryan Adams
David Foster (with co-producer Madonna), "You'll See (Something to Remember)" by Madonna; "I Can Love You Like That (And the Music Speaks)" by All-4-One
Chad Irschick, "O Siem" by Susan Aglukark
David Tyson, "Beautiful Goodbye" and "Birmingham" by Amanda Marshall

Best Recording Engineer

Winner: Chad Irschick, "O Siem" by Susan Aglukark

Other Nominees:

Lenny DeRose, "Faith" and "Their Lights" by Crash Vegas
Kevin Doyle, "Here, There and Everywhere" by John McDermott
Rob Heany, "Alegria" by Cirque du Soleil
Ian Terry, "The Way You Look Tonight" by Oliver Jones and "Canon" by D.D. Jackson

Canadian Music Hall of Fame

Winners: David Clayton-Thomas, Denny Doherty, John Kay, Domenic Troiano, Zal Yanovsky

Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award

Winner: Ronnie Hawkins

Nominated and winning albums

Best Album

Presented by Deborah Cox and Robbie Robertson.

Winner: Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette

Other Nominees:

Best Children's Album

Winner: Celery Stalks At Midnight, Al Simmons

Other Nominees:

Hallelujah Handel!, Susan Hammond, Classical Kids
The Keeper, Will Millar
Philharmonic Fool, Rick Scott
Raffi Radio, Raffi

Best Classical Album (Solo or Chamber Ensemble)

Winner: Alkan: Grande Sonate/Sonatine/ Le Festin d'Esope, piano Marc-Andre Hamelin

Other Nominees:

Bach: Violin Concertos, Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik
Debussy: Preludes, Livres 1 and 2, piano Francine Kay
Quartet for the End of Time, Amici Ensemble with violin Shmuel Askenasi
Suite hébraïque, violin Jacques Israelievitch, piano John Greer

Best Classical Album (Large Ensemble)

Winner: Shostakovich: Symphonies 5 & 9, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit

Other Nominees:

Debussy: Children's Corner, Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1 and 5, Hebrides Overture, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre, Tafelmusik
Tchaikovsky and Sibelius: Violin Concertos, Leila Josefowicz, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Best Classical Album (Vocal or Choral Performance)

Winner: Ben Heppner Sings Richard Strauss, tenor Ben Heppner, The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Other Nominees:

Great Tenor Arias, Ben Heppner, Munich Radio Orchestra
Healey Willan: An Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts, Vancouver Chamber Choir
J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 1, Dorothea Röschmann, Hugues Saint-Gelais, Kevin McMillan, Les Violons du Roy
Ravel: L'enfant et les sortileges, Sheherazade, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Choir

Best Album Design

Winner: Tom Wilson and Alex Wittholz, Birthday Boy

Other Nominees:

David Andoff, Derek Shapton, Hi, How Are You Today? by Ashley MacIsaac
David Andoff, Paul van Dongen, Tara McVicar, Bootsauce by Bootsauce
Steven R. Gilmore, Anthony Artiaga, Good Weird Feeling, Odds
Kathi Prosser, Peter Horvath, Dragonfly by Mae Moore

Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic)

Winner: No Need to Argue, The Cranberries

Other Nominees:

Best Blues/Gospel Album

Winner: That River, Jim Byrnes

Other Nominees:

Big City Blues, Sue Foley
Rites of Passage, Georgette Fry
Urban Blues re: Newell, King Biscuit Boy
When the Sun Goes Down, The Sidemen

Best Mainstream Jazz Album

Winner: Vernal Fields, Ingrid Jensen

Other Nominees:

A Timeless Place, Jeri Brown
Basso Continuo, Normand Guilbeault Ensemble
From Lush to Lively, Oliver Jones
Peace Song, D.D. Jackson

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Winner: NOJO, Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra

Other Nominees:

Frontier Tunes, The Merlin Factor
Lucky to be Me, Carol Welsman
Rendez-vous Brazil Cuba, Jane Bunnett
Touch, Rich Shadrach Lazar and Montuno Police

Best Selling Francophone Album

Winner: D'eux, Celine Dion

Other Nominees:

Beau dommage, Beau Dommage
Bohemienne, Marjo
Carpe diem, Lara Fabian
C'est la vie, Mario Pelchat

Rock Album of the Year

Presented by Burton Cummings and Alannah Myles.

Winner: Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette

Other Nominees:

Best Roots or Traditional Album - Group

Winner: Gypsies & Lovers, The Irish Descendants

Other Nominees:

Inside the Dreaming, The Wyrd Sisters
Late As Usual, The Paperboys
Night Visions, Orealis
Up, Great Big Sea

Best Roots or Traditional Album - Solo

Winner: Ashley MacIsaac, Hi™ How Are You Today?

Other Nominees:

Susan Crowe, This Far From Home
James Keelaghan, A Recent Future
Danielle Martineau, Autrement
Laura Smith, B'tween the Earth and My Soul

Best Alternative Album

Winner: What Fresh Hell is This?, Art Bergmann

Other Nominees:

Fluke, Rusty
Kombinator, The Inbreds
Mock Up, Scale Down, The Super Friendz
Somebody Spoke, Hardship Post

Nominated and winning releases

Single of the Year

Winner: "You Oughta Know", Alanis Morissette

Other Nominees:

"Any Man of Mine", Shania Twain
"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman", Bryan Adams
"Insensitive", Jann Arden
"O Siem", Susan Aglukark

Best Classical Composition

Winner: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra, Andrew P. MacDonald, David Stewart, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

Other Nominees:

"I Think That I Shall Never See...", Chan Ka Nin for Amici
"Music for Heaven and Earth", Alexina Louie for Esprit Orchestra
"Piano Concerto", Glenn Buhr for Christina Petrowksa, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
"Touchings", Harry Freedman for Nexus, The Esprit Orchestra

Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording

Winner: ETSI Shon "Grandfather Song", Jerry Alfred and the Medicine Beat

Other Nominees:

Dancing Around the World, Red Bull
Message, Wapistan
Sacred Ground, Jess Lee
This Child, Susan Aglukark

Best Rap Recording

Winner: "E-Z On Tha Motion", Ghetto Concept

Other Nominees:

"Drama", Da Grassroots with Elemental
"The Legacy", UBAD
"Still Caught Up", Saukrates
"360 Degrees", Cipher

Best R&B/Soul Recording

Presented by Ronnie Hawkins and Colin James.

Winner: Deborah Cox, Deborah Cox

Other Nominees:

Absolute, jacksoul
Feel the Good Times, Charlene Smith
Memories of the SoulShack Survivors, Bass is Base
Philosopher Kings, Philosopher Kings

Best Reggae Recording

Winner: "Now and Forever", Sattalites

Other Nominees:

"Real Personal", Tanya Mullings
"Si Wi Dem Nuh Know We", Snow
"Something Real", Lazo
"Waking Up the Dream", Errol Blackwood

Best Global Album

Winner: Music From Africa, Takadja

Other Nominees:

Alegria, Cirque du Soleil
Jmpn For Joy, Punjabi by Nature
Vamo a Pambicha, Papo Ross and Orquesta Pambiche
When Ahab Met Moishe, The Angstones

Best Dance Recording

Winner: "A Deeper Shade Of Love (Extended Mix)", Camille

Other Nominees:

"Come Into My Life (Extended Mix)", JLM
"Get Away (Stonebridge and Nick Nice Club Mix)", Shauna Davis
"Never Let You Go (Tempered Club Mix)", Temperance
"Take Control (Matrix Airplay Edit)", BKS

Best Video

Presented by Amanda Marshall and The Odds.

Winner: Jeth Weinrich, "Good Mother" by Jann Arden

Other Nominees:

Alain DesRochers, "O Siem" by Susan Aglukark
Tim Hamilton, "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" by Crash Test Dummies
Stephen Scott, "Freedom" by Colin James
Curtis Wehrfritz, "Sister Awake" by The Tea Party

References

^ Globe and Mail (6 January 1996). "For the love of music". The Globe and Mail. pp. C1, C2.
^ Globe and Mail (15 February 1996). "Arts Ink: Coupland's name on U.S author list / Juno boycott". The Globe and Mail. pp. D2.
^ Canadian Press (1 February 1996). "Juno nominees reflect success of female singers". The Globe and Mail. pp. D2.
^ Renzetti, Elizabeth (11 March 1996). "You Oughta Know: Morissette sweeps Junos". The Globe and Mail. pp. C1.