Gold Winner Joel Plaskett Silver Winner Mo Kenney Bronze Winner Makayla Lynn This is Plaskett’s second songwriting award this year—he nabbed an ECMA in May. “The Songwriter award is a special honour and in my heart I share it with my friend, Matthew Grimson, who we lost this year,” says Plaskett. “Matthew was the most […]
Makayla Lynn
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Best Artist / Band Most Likely To Make It Big
Gold Winner Makayla Lynn Silver Winner Aquakultre Bronze Winner Owen Meany’s Batting Stance Makayla Lynn is only 17 but she’s putting all the pieces in place with regards to this making it big business. First of all, she got high school out of the way a year early with the help of correspondence courses. “I […]
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Best Country Artist / Band
Gold Winner Makayla Lynn Silver Winner Brooklyn Blackmore Bronze Winner Samantha Power Makayla Lynn is so country she’s calling from Nashville, where she’s been on a writing trip. “I’m here for the next couple weeks, hanging out and writing music,” says the East Hants native. Writing music means co-writing two songs a day, with different […]
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Your 2017 Music Nova Scotia award winners
A post shared by Port Cities (@port_cities) on Nov 5, 2017 at 5:39pm PST Another Nova Scotia Music Week has come to a close after a wild weather weekend in Truro, where the roving annual event is in the middle of a four-year stay. Harmerrific Port Cities walked away the biggest winners, with five of […]