Songs for a Sunday: Juno what I think?

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Songs for a Sunday: Juno what I think?

Canada hands out its Juno awards next Sunday in its annual celebration of Canadian music. Today, I thought I’d give you a few Canadian bands that did not get nominated along with some that did.

Aviva Chiara Mongillo, also known as Carys, is a Canadian pop singer and actress. The acronym stands for: I Know You Are But What Am I

Lauren Isenberg, known professionally as Renforshort is a Canadian singer and songwriter from Toronto.

New West is a Canadian musical group from Toronto, Ontario. I’m cheating a bit since I didn’t remember they were the winners of the Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2024. A bit of a Coldplay vibe to this group.

Another acronym, If you Know You Know, adding credence to my theory that the next trend in music is AcroPop.

Khyree Zienty, professionally known as Ekkstacy, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is up for Breakthrough Artist of the Year

I know what you are thinking, “What about Canadian progressive metal instrumental bands?” Well, here’s Intervals:

Sum 41 will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of of fame. They started in 2000 as a self-proclaimed “crappy punk-rock band from Ajax,” and after 8 albums (plus 3 live albums) they are calling it quits.

I’ll admit I haven’t followed them very closely, in fact, I thought they had broken up years ago. Here’s two songs from the last record:

They will be performing for the last time tonight at the Junos.

-Leon

Book two of the Orion Arm Alliance, A Matter of Sabotage, will be out in spring 2025, so time to get reading book one!

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/