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pack with 8, followed by Brooks and Dunn and Toby Kieth- five each, and Martina McBride and Jimmy Buffett with four. Look for the Academy of Country Music Awards live from Las Vegas on CBS May 26th.Country Music's leading lady Reba McEntire will be the host. http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=1704187&nav =0RbQLSK4
Radio favourite Shania Twain won the songwriter award and the chart topper award for music from her best selling album Up. Lillix, from small-town Cranbrook, B.C., and signed onto Madonna's label, Maverick, earned best new group on contemporary hit radio and best new group on Hot Adult Contemporary. Both awards recognized the band's single It's About Time, co-written and produced by the Matrix, the same production team who worked on Avril Lavigne's debut album. The awards were handed out at a weekend ceremony in Toronto, part of Canadian Music Week celebrations. Presented by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the awards highlight the achievements of first-time artists whose songs received top air play. Performers included Barlow, In Essence, Ryan Malcolm, Deric Ruttan, Shaye and Three Days Grace, who won best new group on rock radio.
Fefe Dobson's Take Me Away earned the Toronto singer best new solo artist on contemporary hit radio. Ruttan was named best new country artist. Shaye, made up of Tara MacLean, Kim Stockwood and Damhnait Doyle, were crowned best new group on mainstream adult contemporary radio. Keshia Chante's Shook took home the award for best dance urban rhythmic song. The Salads were honoured with the breakthrough award.
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NASHVILLE, TN Thursday 3.11.2004 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- Shaniatwain.com reports that due to an extension of the Shania Twain European Tour, the start of the next leg of her North American tour has been changed. Originally set to begin April 6th in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, the singer will now kick things off April 19th at a previously scheduled show in Pensacola, Florida. That means that concerts in Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Jacksonville, Orland and Birmingham will be rescheduled. Meanwhile: Shania won the Canadian Association of Broadcasters award for songwriter and the chart topper award for music from her best selling album "Up!"
Presented by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the awards highlight the achievements of first-time artists whose songs received top air play. Performers included Barlow, In Essence, Ryan Malcolm, Deric Ruttan, Shaye, and Three Days Grace, who won best new group on rock radio.
From: http://www.netmusiccountdown.com/news/article.php?id=4976
~Becca~
Shania hurt her back on the UK leg of the tour was in need of a chiropractor before her Manchester show:
Pain-buster Adam Wilkey is a big hit with his new number one fan - country diva Shania Twain. The multi-million record-selling star
called him up recently at his Pudsey chiropractor clinic when she hurt her back on the UK leg of her sell-out world tour. With just
hours to go before the petite Canadian star was due to belt out a string of her hits at the MEN Arena in Manchester in front of 20,000 adoring fans, Mr Wilkey made a mercy dash to help get her on stage out of pain He said he got a call to say she was in real need and
asking him to `come on over' as soon as he could. "They were really quite insistent she needed urgent treatment," he said. After a 30-
minute treatment the relieved songstress - who has sold a whopping 34 million records worldwide - was ready for the show to go on. And as a big thank you to Mr Wilkey she rewarded him with a signed photo and ringside seats for that night's performance. He said: "I'm not a huge music fan but she is a lovely person. I enjoyed the show but couldn't switch off from looking all the time to see if there was anything she was doing to make her back problems worse. "She is very petite and has a radio mike strapped to the back of her neck all the time which probably doesn't help." And he said all the bending down, leaning forward to greet fans, signing autographs, shaking hands and tugging people from the audience up on to stage could also be putting pressure on the singing star's back. Now he is sending Shania's management some words of advice to pass on to the performer. "Basically I'm advising her not to twist herself up so much on stage. She's a bit of a contortionist. She's had problems with her back before and isn't new to being treated by a chiropractor, she was very open to this kind of healing." Mr Wilkey said he took one newspaper's review of the concert as a personal compliment when it described Shania as looking relaxed.
Canada's radio industry was out celebrating the best on the airwaves this past weekend when the Canadian Radio Music Awards were held at the Westin Harbour Castle Convention Centre to honor Canada's top radio-friendly performers. Topping off this years awards were the West Coast's own Lillix and Timmin's-native Shania Twain, who both took home two awards each.
Presented by The Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the CRMAs "recognize first-time artists who have achieved top airplay in several different formats". Appearing, and also performing at this year's ceremony were a variety of new names to the airwaves including: Barlow, In Essence, Ryan Malcolm, Deric Ruttan, Shaye and Three Days Grace.
One cool change this year though was the cooperation of Standard Radio and Craig Media who have partnered to bring the 7th annual CRMAs to the national airwaves, broadcasting on March 13 and 14 on MTV Canada, on A-Channel in Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg, and on Toronto 1. Carla Collins, who also hosted the live event, will host the television special.
The CRMAs are held annually during Toronto's hugely popular Canadian Music Week, a music conference and festival that features a couple of hundred bands and singers performing at night clubs all over the city over 4 days. Wrapping up on March 6, CMW also includes a number of other awards and events including the Indie Awards which recognize the best in independently released music.
Catch the CRMAs on the following dates:
March 13 - A-Channel Calgary (Channel 8) & Edmonton (Channel 7) 8:00
PM MTN
March 13 - A-Channel Winnipeg (Channel 8 & 13) 10:00 PM MTN
March 13 - MTV Canada 1:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 9:00 PM & 2:00 AM (all times
EST)
March 14 - Toronto 1 (Rogers Cable 15, Cogeco Cable 16, Bell
ExpressVu channel 224 & Star Choice 326) 8:00 PM EST
For more information check out Canadian Music Week @ www.cmw.net and
the Canadian Association of Broadcasters @ www.cab-acr.ca.
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