Peaches Wins Polaris Heritage Prize

Peaches has won the Polaris Heritage Prize! The Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize honours Canadian albums of the past from four distinct time periods: 1960-75, 1976-85, 1986-95 and 1996-05. Like the Polaris Music Prize, winners and nominees for the Heritage Prize are albums of the artistic distinction, without regards to sales or affiliations.

This is how the committee describes the award for Canadians: “Think of the Heritage Prize as our version of a hall of fame where we try to determine who would have been nominated or won the Prize in the years before it started in 2006. How it works is an 11 person group of Canadian music media and historians gather together each year to create a vote-curated list of 10 Short List-nominated albums per era. Two albums per era, one chosen by public vote and one chosen by the jury of critics, will be designated as Heritage Prize winners each year.”

This year’s winners are Joni Mitchell’s Blue (60s and 70s), the Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session (80s), Sloan’s Twice Removed (90s) and Peaches’s The Teaches Of Peaches (00s).