The East Coast Music Association celebrates the 2021 East Coast Music Awards, and Eric Alper Public Relations and its clients and extended family celebrates the talent of artists and musicians across Canada with 10 nominations from Jimmy Rankin, Catherine MacLellan, Laurie LeBlanc, Jessica Rhaye, and Mike Bern.
The East Coast Music Association is a regional collaboration of people in the music industry of Atlantic Canada, with membership over 1,000 that includes musicians, artists, agents, managers, record companies, studios, media, related corporation and retailers.
Over the past 31 years, ECMA has been a catalyst, bringing music industry representatives from all over the world to the East Coast to discover and cultivate one of our greatest exportable resources – our music. By doing so, they have also helped build a regional and professional music industry in this corner of the world, one that supports and develops the careers of both the artists and the industry.
FANS’ CHOICE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Jimmy Rankin
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Catherine MacLellan
SOLO RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Catherine MacLellan, Coyote
GROUP RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade, Just like a Women – Songs of Bob Dylan
INDIGENOUS ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Mike Bern
COUNTRY RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Laurie LeBlanc, When It’s Right It’s Right
CONTEMPORARY ROOTS RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Catherine MacLellan, Coyote
VISUAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Jessica Rhaye
VIDEO DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Catherine MacLellan and Tara MacLean (“This Storm” – Catherine MacLellan and Tara MacLean)
ARTIST INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR (IN LIGHT OF COVID-19)
Laurie LeBlanc
