Lucie Idlout, Tumivut up for aborginal music awards

Lucie Idlout and Tumivut are among the nominees for awards this year, the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards organization announced Sept. 30.

Idlout is nominated for Best Female Artist, Best Music Video, Best Rock Album and Best Songwriter for the track “Whisky Breath,” from her most recent CD, Swagger, shown here on YouTube:

“Swagger came to me when I was listening to premixes of all the songs. I had set out to record the perfect driving album, or something that would be worthy of being on a soundtrack, and I wanted it to swagger,” Idlout says on her website, www.lucieidlout.com.

“I’d spent so much time in a funk and unable to write about anything that felt sexy enough to me and then Whiskey Breath came out, and the rest was just like a purging.”

Tumivut, a group whose members mix hip hop and rap with throat singing, is nominated for Best Female Cultural Performance and Best Rap or Hip Hop video, “Movement,” shown here on YouTube:

The Canadian aboriginal music awards’ 25 categories recognize Canada’s top recording artists, videographers and music industry professionals working in aboriginal music.

This year’s award ceremony take place Nov. 27, 2009 at Hamilton Place Theatre in Hamilton, Ontario in conjunction with the 16th annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival.

“This is an incredible mosaic of talent. All of the nominees deliver a unique interpretation of aboriginal heritage and music. Many will ultimately make their mark in the mainstream music scene,” Catherine Cornelius of Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards said in a Sept. 30 news release.