Lucie Idlout of Nunavut nominated for Juno award

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has nominated Nunavut rocker Lucie Idlout’s Swagger for the Aboriginal Album of the Year category in this year’s Juno awards competition.

Swagger, released in 2009, has already won the Best Rock Album of the Year award at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards held earlier this year at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ont.

Juno award winners will be declared April 17 at a gala banquet and ceremony inside the St. John’s convention centre. CTV will broadcast the ceremony on the evening of April 18.

Here’s a video of “Whisky Breath,” one of Swagger’s better-known cuts.