Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year is presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the contemporary roots and folk genre. Prior to 2016, awards for this genre were awarded in two categories: Roots & Traditional - Solo and Roots & Traditional - Group. Beginning with the 2016 ceremony, the solo and group categories were replaced with contemporary and traditional roots categories, to "ensure two genres of music are not competing against each other in the same category".^[1]

Winners and nominees[]

Inaugural award recipient Buffy Sainte-Marie

Bruce Cockburn won the award in 2018

2021 honoree Rose Cousins

Year	Winner(s)	Album	Nominees	Ref.
2016	Buffy Sainte-Marie	Power in the Blood	Alan Doyle, So Let's Go Frazey Ford, Indian Ocean Fortunate Ones, The Bliss Lee Harvey Osmond, Beautiful Scars
2017	William Prince	Earthly Days	Matthew Barber & Jill Barber, The Family Album Lisa LeBlanc, Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? Corin Raymond, Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams Kacy & Clayton, Strange Country
2018	Bruce Cockburn	Bone on Bone	Amelia Curran, Watershed Buffy Sainte-Marie, Medicine Songs The Jerry Cans, Inuusiq The Weather Station, The Weather Station
2019	Donovan Woods	Both Ways	AHI, In Our Time The Deep Dark Woods, Yarrow Kaia Kater, Grenades Megan Nash, Seeker
2020	Lee Harvey Osmond	Mohawk	Del Barber, Easy Keeper Irish Mythen, Little Bones Catherine MacLellan, Coyote Justin Rutledge, Passages	^[2]
2021	Rose Cousins	Bravado	Leela Gilday, North Star Calling Tami Neilson, Chickaboom! William Prince, Reliever Julian Taylor, The Ridge	^[3]
2022	TBA May 15, 2022		AHI, Prospect The Fretless, Open House Allison Russell, Outside Child Suzie Ungerleider, My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider Donovan Woods, Without People	^[4]

References[]

^ "42nd Annual Juno Awards: 2016 CARAS Quick Reference Guide to the Submission Process" (PDF). JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
^ Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.
^ Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
^ Jackson Weaver, "Charlotte Cardin, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber lead 2022 Juno Award nominees". CBC News, March 1, 2022.

[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. Retrieved February 2, 2016.

[2] Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.

[3] Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.

[4] Jackson Weaver, "Charlotte Cardin, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber lead 2022 Juno Award nominees". CBC News, March 1, 2022.

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v t Juno Awards
Awards to individuals	Artist of the Year Fan Choice Group of the Year Breakthrough Artist of the Year Breakthrough Group of the Year Producer Recording Engineer Songwriter
Awards for recordings	Album of the Year Adult Alternative Adult Contemporary Alternative Blues Children's Comedy Classical – Large Ensemble Classical – Solo or Chamber Ensemble Classical – Vocal or Choral Performance Classical Composition CCM/Gospel Contemporary Indigenous Artist Contemporary R&B/Soul Contemporary Roots Country Dance Electronic Francophone Global Music Heavy Metal Instrumental International Jazz – Solo Jazz – Group Jazz – Vocal Pop Rap Album/EP Rap Single Reggae Rock Single of the Year Traditional Indigenous Artist Traditional R&B/Soul Traditional Roots Underground Dance
Awards for technicality	Music DVD Recording Package Video
Discontinued categories	Indigenous Artist or Group (1994-2021) Best Jazz Album (1977-1993) Jazz – Contemporary (1994-2014) Jazz – Traditional (1994-2014) Rap (1991-2021) R&B/Soul (1985-2020) Best Roots and Traditional Album (1989-1995) Roots & Traditional Album – Solo (1996-2015) Roots & Traditional Album – Group (1996-2015)
Special awards	Canadian Music Hall of Fame Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award Juno Humanitarian Award
Years	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1989¹ 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Leadership	Walt Grealis Stan Klees Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Notes	¹ Due to the rescheduling of the ceremony from late fall to early spring, no ceremony was held in 1988.
See also Music of Canada Polaris Music Prize Much Music Video Awards Félix Awards East Coast Music Awards Western Canadian Music Awards