{"id":1949968,"date":"2025-08-08T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1949968"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:22:51","slug":"polaris-music-prize-announces-festival-in-honour-of-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/polaris-music-prize-announces-festival-in-honour-of-20th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris Music Prize announces festival in honour of 20th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 20th annual <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polaris Music Prize<\/a> concert and awards ceremony will take place on Sept. 16 at Massey Hall, where one of the ten shortlisters\u00a0vying for the spot of best Canadian album of\u00a0the year will be announced. To coincide with the milestone anniversary, Polaris has planned a new festival with an entire month of salons, listening parties, exhibitions and shows.<\/p>\n<p>All September long,\u00a0music lovers can catch a sampling of the\u00a0600-plus past Polaris nominees\u00a0across Toronto (with stops in Hamilton and Belleville, Ont.). Featured artists include\u00a0five-time short list nominee Shad, 2025 longlister Eliza Niemi and 2022 winner Cadence Weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH | Last year&#8217;s winner, Jeremy Dutcher, performs at the 2024 award ceremony: <\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy Dutcher live | 2024 Polaris Music Prize\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GqfJNzfThrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The festivities kick off on Sept. 3, with a conversation between multi-instrumentalist Marco Adamovic and four-time shortlisted rapper Clairmont the Second at Hart House Circle. They&#8217;ll be diving deep into the world of music production.<\/p>\n<p>From Sept. 8 to 10, a Polaris poster exhibition will take over Cry Baby Gallery, featuring posters inspired by\u00a0the nominated albums\u00a0created\u00a0by Canadian artists and designers over the past 20 years. Niemi\u00a0will join fellow longlister Sister Ray for a show in Hamilton on Sept. 12, as part of Supercrawl.<\/p>\n<p>The night before the award ceremony, Shad will lead an intimate\u00a0listening party\u00a0at Loveless Cafe, playing some of his favourite music.<\/p>\n<p>The month culminates with a special edition of the Royal Ontario Museum&#8217;s ROM After Dark on Sept. 26, where Cadence Weapon and 2020 shortlister Junia-T will turn the museum&#8217;s Connelly Hall into an all-out dance party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Polaris short list includes Bibi Club,\u00a0Lou-Adriane Cassidy,\u00a0Marie Davidson,\u00a0Mustafa,\u00a0Nemahsis, the OBGMs<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Population II,\u00a0Ribbon Skirt,\u00a0Saya Gray and Yves Jarvis.\u00a0The winner of the new\u00a0Song Prize, which is an award in partnership with SOCAN going to the best Canadian song of the year,\u00a0will also be announced at\u00a0the award ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to buy tickets for the Sept. 16 concert and award ceremony at Massey Hall and\u00a0the other Polaris Music Prize Festival events, click <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/polaris-festival\/?utm_source=NEW+Polaris+Music+Prize&amp;utm_campaign=15050d9c7b-2025-polaris-festival-event-reveal&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-24a402640b-640836825\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th annual Polaris Music Prize concert and awards ceremony will take place on Sept. 16 at Massey Hall, where one of the ten shortlisters\u00a0vying for the spot of best Canadian album of\u00a0the year will be announced. To coincide with the milestone anniversary, Polaris has planned a new festival with an entire month of salons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Polaris-Music-Prize-announces-festival-in-honour-of-20th-anniversary.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}