Reprise; UMeNeil Young and Rush are among the 2018 winners of the Polaris Heritage Prize, which honors albums by Canadian artists released prior to 2006 and are based on artistic merit.
Among the albums recognized this year are Young’s 1969 record Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Rush’s 1976 album 2112.
The awards are an offshoot of the annual Polaris Music Prize, which has recognized an outstanding Canadian album each year since 2006.
Polaris Heritage Prizes are presented annually to eight albums, two each hailing from four time periods: 1960-1975, 1976-1985, 1986-1995 and 1996-2005. One album in each period is chosen by a public vote and the other is picked by a jury of music critics.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, which was the first album Young recorded with his sometimes backing band Crazy Horse, won the public vote for the 1960-1975 time period, while 2112 was the public-vote winner for the 1976-1985 era.
Other 2018 honorees include Bruce Cockburn‘s 1984 album Stealing Fire, the jury winner for the 1976–1985 time period, and Alanis Morissette‘s hugely successful 1995 record Jagged Little Pill, which was the public-vote winner for the 1986-1995 era.
Young and Rush also were both honored with the Polaris Heritage Prize in 2016, respectively, for 1970’s After the Gold Rush and 1981’s Moving Pictures. Those albums also were chosen by public vote.
Check out all of the honorees at PolarisMusicPrize.ca.
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