2015 Polaris Music Prize
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The 2015 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 21, 2015 at The Carlu event theatre in Toronto, Ontario.[1] The event was hosted by children's entertainer Fred Penner.
In May 2015, Slaight Communications announced an additional contribution to the Polaris fund which saw the prize for the winning album increased to $50,000,[2] as well as $3,000 to each of the non-winning nominees.
Longlist
The prize's preliminary 40-album longlist was announced on June 16 at the Carleton Music Bar and Grill in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1]
- Absolutely Free, Absolutely Free
- The Acorn, Vieux Loup
- Lydia Ainsworth, Right From Real
- Alvvays, Alvvays
- Arkells, High Noon
- Rich Aucoin, Ephemeral
- BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul
- Bahamas, Bahamas Is Afie
- The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator
- Braids, Deep in the Iris
- Steph Cameron, Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady
- Caribou, Our Love
- Jazz Cartier, Marauding in Paradise
- Jennifer Castle, Pink City
- Cold Specks, Neuroplasticity
- Louis-Jean Cormier, Les grandes artères
- Death from Above 1979, The Physical World
- Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late
- Frazey Ford, Indian Ocean
- Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon
- B. A. Johnston, Shit Sucks
- Pierre Kwenders, Le dernier empereur Bantou
- Lee Harvey Osmond, Beautiful Scars
- Jean Leloup, À Paradis City
- METZ, II
- Milk & Bone, Little Mourning
- Tre Mission, Stigmata
- The New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers
- Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power in the Blood
- Elizabeth Shepherd, The Signal
- Siskiyou, Nervous
- Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld, Never Were the Way She Was
- Various Artists, Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country, 1966-1985
- Viet Cong, Viet Cong
- Patrick Watson, Love Songs for Robots
- The Weather Station, Loyalty
- White Lung, Deep Fantasy
- Whitehorse, Leave No Bridge Unburned
- Young Guv, Ripe 4 Luv