“A Yellowknife composer and a popular Nunavut band have reason to celebrate after this past weekend.
The Jerry Cans won Rock Artist of the Year and Carmen Braden was named Classical Composer of the Year at the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards. Braden tied with Stephen Chatman of British Columbia.
“It’s such an honour,” she said.
It’s the second year in a row Braden won the award — in 2019 she took home the same honour against Allan Gordon Bell and Laurie Radford, both of whom taught her at the University of Calgary when she was pursuing her master’s degree…”
