Canadian Folk Music Award for Ensemble of the Year

The Canadian Folk Music Award for Ensemble of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best work by duos and bands in Canadian folk music and related genres. Albums officially credited to solo artists can be nominated for the award, in consideration of the collective work by all musicians participating in the recording.

Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Genticorum	Malins plaisirs	^[1]
	The Bills	Let 'Em Run	^[2]
	The Clumsy Lovers	Smart Kid
	Nathan	Jimson Weed
	Le Vent du Nord	Les Amants du Saint-Laurent
2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Mauvais Sort	Koru	^[3]
	Bebop Cowboys	Canadian Dance Hall	^[4]
	The McDades	Bloom
	Polémil Bazar	Avale ta montre
	Tandava	Tandava
2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Les Charbonniers de l'enfer	À la grâce de Dieu	^[5]
	Creaking Tree String Quartet	The Soundtrack	^[6]
	The Duhks	Migrations
	Harry Manx and Kevin Breit	In Good We Trust
	John Reichman and The Jaybirds	Stellar Jays
2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Yves Lambert et Le Bébert Orchestra	Le Monde à Lambert	^[7]
	Rita Chiarelli	Uptown Goes Downtown	^[8]
	Foggy Hogtown Boys	The Golden West
	Hungry Hill	Ride
	Le Vent du Nord	Dans les airs
2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Deep Dark Woods	Winter Hours	^[9]
	Annie Lou	Annie Lou	^[10]
	The Haints Old Time Stringband	Shout Monah
	Oktoécho	Oktoécho
	Sultans of String	Yalla Yalla!

Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Le Vent du Nord	La Part du feu	^[11]
	Beyond the Pale	Postcards
	Nicolas Pellerin	et les Grands Hurleurs
	The Sojourners	The Sojourners
	Les Tireux d'Roches	Les Tireux d'Roches Cé qu'essé?
2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Genticorum	Nagez rameurs
	Creaking Tree String Quartet	Sundogs	^[12]
	Harry Manx and Kevin Breit	Strictly Whatever
	Maz	Télescope
	The Wailin' Jennys	Bright Morning Stars
2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Fretless	Waterbound	^[13]
	La Bottine Souriante	Appellation d'origine côntrolée
	Oliver Schroer and Nuala Kennedy	Enthralled
	Le Vent du Nord	Tromper le temps
	Whitehorse	Whitehorse
2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Good Lovelies	Live at Revolution	^[14]
	Genticorum	Enregistré Live	^[15]
	Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac	Seinn
	Corin Raymond and the Sundowners	Paper Nickels
	Vishtèn	Mosaïk
2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Fretless	The Fretless	^[16]
	Quinn Bachand	Brishen	^[17]
	The High Bar Gang	Lost and Undone: A Gospel Bluegrass Companion
	Notre Dame de Grass	That's How the Music Begins
	Ventanas	Ventanas
2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Big Little Lions	A Little Frayed, a Little Torn	^[18]
	The Once	Departures	^[19]
	Jayme Stone	Jayme Stone's Lomax Project
	The Sweet Lowdown	Chasing the Sun
	Whitehorse	Leave No Bridge Unburned
2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The East Pointers	Secret Victory	^[20]
	Les Frères Berthiaume	Le temps des fêtes est terminé	^[21]
	Ten Strings and a Goat Skin	Auprès du poêle
	Whitehorse	The Northern South, Vol. 1
	Yves Lambert Trio	Laissez courir les chiens
2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Mama's Broke	Count the Wicked	^[22]
	100 mile house	Hiraeth	^[23]
	Cassie and Maggie	The Willow Collection
	The Jerry Cans	Inuusiq
	Silent Winters	Fireworks and a Small Brigade
2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Lynnes	Heartbreak Song for the Radio	^[24]
	The East Pointers	What We Leave Behind	^[25]
	The Fretless	Live from the Art Farm
	Genticorum	Avant l'orage
	Pharis and Jason Romero	Sweet Old Religion

Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Small Glories	Assiniboine & The Red	^[26]
	Haley Richardson and Quinn Bachand	When the Wind Blows High and Clear	^[27]
	Oliver the Crow	Oliver the Crow
	The Slocan Ramblers	Queen City Jubilee
	Vishtèn	Horizons
2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Pharis and Jason Romero	Bet on Love	^[28]
	The Dead South	Sugar & Joy	^[29]
	OKAN	Sombras
	Sultans of String	Refuge
	Sussex	The Ocean Wide
2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Elliott Brood	Keeper	^[30]
	The Fugitives	Trench Songs	^[31]
	The Hello Darlins	Go by Feel
	OKAN	Espiral
	Whitehorse	Modern Love
2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Slocan Ramblers	Up the Hill and Through the Fog	^[32]
	The Dead South	Easy Listening for Jerks, Part 1	^[33]
	The Fretless	Open House
	The McDades	The Empress
	Over the Moon	Chinook Waltz
2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Genticorum	Au coeur de l'aube	^[34]
	The Bombadils	Dear Friend	^[35]
	The East Pointers	House of Dreams
	Jackson Hollow	Roses
	Whitehorse	I'm Not Crying, You're Crying
2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Rum Ragged	Gone Jiggin'	^[36]
	Rachel Davis and Darren McMullen	Home	^[37]
	The Fugitives	No Help Coming
	The Good Lovelies	We Will Never Be the Same
	Sultans of String	Walking Through the Fire

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