Selections for the ADISQ Gala | Karkwa and Les Cowboys Fringants in the lead

ADISQ unveiled the finalists of its 46th edition on Wednesday^e gala, which will take place on November 3. Leading the finalists this year: Karkwa and Les Cowboys Fringants.

It’s Karkwa, who made a masterful comeback this year with his album In the secondwhich garnered the most mentions. The quintet received eleven in total, seven in their personal capacity and four in the industrial categories related to the project.

With Karl Tremblay’s moving posthumous album, Royal PubLes Cowboys Fringants are nominated in seven categories, including the prestigious Author or composer of the year for Jean-François Pauzé, who is nominated for the first time in his prolific career. The group is of course in the running for Album of the year – Popular success, and its touching The end of the show is a finalist in the Song of the Year category.

Elisapie is also nominated in seven categories – three artistic and four industrial – including that of Indigenous Artist of the Year, with Florent Vollant, Jeremy Dutcher, Natasha Kanapé and Soleil Launière. She is also in the International Outreach category, as is Charlotte Cardin, who has been selected six times (four artistic and two industrial).

The excellent Arielle Soucy is in the Revelation of the Year category alongside Rauz_Ze, BARNEV, Sophie Grenier and Émile Bourgault. But the fact that she was selected six times, five in her personal capacity and one in the industrial categories, is one of the nice surprises of this selection. The six mentions of the group comment debord (three artistic and three industrial), including its wonderfully groovy Blood same which sneaks into the Song of the Year category, are just as enjoyable and hint at the emergence of a few new voices in the gala.

The young duo Rau_Ze also sees one of their pieces, The habitfeatured in the Song of the Year category alongside regulars like Les Cowboys Fringants, Roxane Bruneau, Charlotte Cardin and Les Trois Accords. As for the energetic Sara Dufour, she slipped into the Album – Popular Success category alongside big names like Daniel Bélanger, Les Cowboys Fringants and 2 Frères.

Demonstrating a certain diversity, the joyful band of Salebarbes and the rapper Souldia, the pianist and composer Alexandra Stréliski and the singer-songwriter Daniel Bélanger, whose albums also appear in the Popular Success category, each obtained five selections.

Among the artists who have received four selections, we can mention Roxane Bruneau, Dominique Fils-Aimé, the super collective Le Roy, la Rose and le Lou[p] and Aliocha Schneider. Quite a year in fact for the latter, who finds himself alongside Jean-François Pauzé in the Author or composer of the year category, with the Karkwa band, Souldia and his collaborators and Alexandre Poulin. Aliocha is also in the International influence category with Charlotte Cardin, Alexandra Stréliski, Elisapie and Moonshine.

Souldia, which is making a notable breakthrough, is in the Male Artist category with Bruno Pelletier, Daniel Bélanger, FouKi and Ludovick Bourgeois. In the women’s category, Alexandra Stréliski, Ingrid St-Pierre, Isabelle Boulay, Roxane Bruneau and Sara Dufour are in the running. On the Group or Duo side, we find, with Les Cowboys Fringants, 2 Frères, Bleu Jeans Bleu, Les Trois Accords and Salebarbes.

Still hosted by Claudine Prévost, the Industry Gala will take place on the afternoon of October 30. In the evening, Sarahmée returns to host the Premier gala, which will be broadcast by Télé-Québec live from MTelus. The ADISQ Gala will take place on November 3, with Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais as host, taking over from Louis-José Houde.