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Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year

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The Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year is an annual music award, presented by the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the best albums in contemporary folk music by Canadian artists.

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Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Nathan	Jimson Weed	^[1]
	The Bills	Let 'Em Run	^[2]
	The Clumsy Lovers	Smart Kid
	David Francey	Waking Hour
	Jenny Whiteley	Hopetown
2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Penny Lang	Stone & Sand & Sea & Sky	^[3]
	Jim Byrnes	House of Refuge	^[4]
	Bruce Cockburn	Life Short Call Now
	Corb Lund	Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer
	The Wailin' Jennys	Firecracker
2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Duhks	Migrations	^[5]
	Jim Bryson	Where the Bungalows Roam	^[6]
	David Francey	Right of Passage
	Oh Susanna	Short Stories
	Jenny Whiteley	Dear
2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Luke Doucet and the White Falcon	Blood's Too Rich	^[7]
	Annabelle Chvostek	Resilience	^[8]
	NQ Arbuckle	XOK
	Justin Rutledge	Man Descending
	Oliver Schroer	Hymns and Hers
2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Joel Plaskett	Three	^[9]
	Jim Byrnes	My Walking Stick	^[10]
	Great Lake Swimmers	Lost Channels
	Romi Mayes	Achin in Yer Bones
	Ndidi Onukwulu	The Contradictor

Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	John Wort Hannam	Queen's Hotel	^[11]
	Amelia Curran	Hunter, Hunter	^[12]
	Dala	Girls from the North Country
	Lennie Gallant	If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante
	Old Man Luedecke	My Hands Are on Fire and Other Love Songs
2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Bruce Cockburn	Small Source of Comfort	^[13]
	Les Charbonniers de l'enfer	Nouvelles fréquentations	^[14]
	The Good Lovelies	Let The Rain Fall
	Lynn Miles	Fall for Beauty
	Twilight Hotel	When the Wolves Go Blind
2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Deep Dark Woods	The Place I Left Behind	^[15]
	Rose Cousins	We Have Made a Spark	^[16]
	Old Man Luedecke and Lake of Stew	Sing All About It
	Linda McRae	Rough Edges and Ragged Hearts
	Whitehorse	Whitehorse
2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Justin Rutledge	Valleyheart	^[17]
	Annabelle Chvostek	Rise	^[18]
	David Francey	So Say We All
	Lynn Miles	Downpour
	Ruth Moody	These Wilder Things
2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Strumbellas	We Still Move on Dance Floors	^[19]
	Matt Andersen	Weightless	^[20]
	The Bros. Landreth	Let it Lie
	Colleen Rennison	See the Sky About to Rain
	Jill Zmud	Small Matters of Life and Death
2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Catherine MacLellan	The Raven's Sun	^[21]
	Jon Brooks	The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside	^[22]
	Jenn Grant	Compostela
	The Once	Departures
	Gabrielle Papillon	The Tempest of Old
2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	David Francey	Empty Train	^[23]
	Big Little Lions	Just Keep Moving	^[24]
	Corin Raymond	Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
	The Strumbellas	Hope
	Donovan Woods	Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled
2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Abigail Lapell	Hide Nor Hair	^[25]
	The Fretless	Bird's Nest	^[26]
	Tomato Tomato	I Go Where You Go
	Braden Gates	Much Rather Be Sleeping
	Leif Vollebekk	Twin Solitude
2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Donovan Woods	Both Ways	^[27]
	Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier	Two	^[28]
	The Lynnes	Heartbreak Song for the Radio
	Gabrielle Papillon	Keep the Fire
	The Wailin' Jennys	Fifteen

Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	The Small Glories	Assiniboine & The Red	^[29]
	Lennie Gallant	Time Travel	^[30]
	Ariana Gillis	The Maze
	Jenn Grant	Love, Inevitable
	Dave Gunning	Up Against the Sky
	Abigail Lapell	Getaway
	Leaf Rapids	Citizen Alien
	Various Artists	The Al Purdy Songbook
2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	William Prince	Reliever	^[31]
	Basia Bulat	Are You in Love?	^[32]
	The Dead South	Sugar & Joy
	The East Pointers	Yours to Break
	Stephen Fearing	The Unconquerable Past
	Catherine MacLellan	Coyote
	Mike McKenna Jr.	At the Edge of the World
	Joe Nolan	Drifters
2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Allison Russell	Outside Child	^[33]
	Beyries	Encounter	^[34]
	Craig Cardiff	All This Time Running
	Rick Fines	Solar Powered Too
	David Leask	Voyageur in Song
	Rob Lutes	Come Around
	Ryland Moranz	XO, 1945
	Reney Ray	À l'ouest du réel
2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	John Wort Hannam	Long Haul	^[35]
	Shawna Caspi	Hurricane Coming	^[36]
	Digging Roots	Zhawenim
	Madison Violet	eleven
	Kyle McKearney	Down-Home
	Sultans of String	Sanctuary
	Tanya Tagaq	Tongues
	Ken Yates	Cerulean
2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	William Prince	Stand in the Joy	^[37]
	Jill Barber	Homemaker	^[38]
	The East Pointers	House of Dreams
	Lynn Miles	TumbleWeedyWorld
	Tami Neilson	Kingmaker
	NQ Arbuckle	Love Songs for the Long Game
	The Sadies	Colder Streams
	Terra Spencer, Ben Caplan	Old News

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