en 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

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	Allison Russell	Outside Child	AHI, Prospect The Fretless, Open House Suzie Ungerleider, My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider Donovan Woods, Without People	^[4]
2023	The Bros. Landreth	Come Morning	Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, O Glory The East Pointers, House of Dreams Fortunate Ones, That Was You and Me Shakura S'Aida, Hold On to Love	^[5]
2024	William Prince	Stand in the Joy	The Good Lovelies, We Will Never Be the Same Allison Russell, The Returner Logan Staats, A Light in the Attic Julian Taylor, Beyond the Reservoir	^[6]

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 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.
^ Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
^ "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.

[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. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 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.

[5] Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.

[6] "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.

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