Canadian Folk Music Award for French Songwriter of the Year

The Canadian Folk Music Award for French Songwriter of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best French-language songwriting. Unlike many songwriting awards, the nomination is given in consideration of all of the songwriting on a whole album rather than singling out individual songs. Awards are also presented for English Songwriter of the Year and Indigenous Songwriter of the Year.

2000s

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Year Nominee Album Ref
2005
1st Canadian Folk Music Awards
No award presented
2006
2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards
2007
3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards
Hugo Fleury (Polémil Bazar) Avale ta montre [1]
Guillaume Arsenault Le rang des Îles [2]
Sylvie Jean Déjouer le vent
Michel Marchildon Fragments d'Identité
3 Gars su'l sofa (Guillaume Monette, Guillaume Meloche-Charlebois, Nicola Morel) Des Cobras, des Tarentules
2008
4th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Tomas Jensen Quelqu'un d'autre [3]
Yves Desrosiers Chansons indociles [4]
Anique Granger Pépins
David Jalbert Des Histoires
Swing Tradarnac
2009
5th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Catherine Durand Coeurs migratoires [5]
Caracol L'Abre aux Parfums [6]
Paul Cargnello Bras coupé
Maryse Letarte Des pas dans la neige
3 Gars su'l sofa (Guillaume Monette, Guillaume Meloche-Charlebois, Nicola Morel) Cerf-volant

2010s

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Year Nominee Album Ref
2010
6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Francis d'Octobre Ma bête fragile [7]
Fredric Gary Comeau Effeuiller les vertiges
Lennie Gallant If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante
David Jalbert Le Journal
Geneviève Toupin Geneviève Toupin
2011
7th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Alexandre Poulin Une lumière allumée
Claude Cormier Acoustique [8]
Jean-François Lessard Jean-François Lessard
Les Surveillantes La racine carrée du coeur
2012
8th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Mes Aïeux À l'aube du printemps [9]
Caracol Blanc Mercredi
Anique Granger Les outils qu'on a
Lisa LeBlanc Lisa LeBlanc
André Dédé Vander French toast et peines perdues
2013
9th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Dany Placard Démon vert [10]
Chantal Archambault Les Élans [11]
Louis-Jean Cormier Le treizième étage
Catherine Durand Les murs blancs du Nord
Alexis Normand Mirador
2014
10th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Les Hay Babies Mon Homesick Heart [12]
Antoine Corriveau Les ombres longues [13]
Laurence Hélie À présent le passé
Klô Pelgag L'Alchimie des monstres
Alexandre Poulin Le mouvement des marées
2015
11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Louis-Jean Cormier Les grandes artères [14]
Jocelyne Baribeau Entre toi et moi [15]
Benoit Pinette (Tire le coyote) Panorama
Dany Placard Santa Maria
Geneviève Toupin Willows
2016
12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Les soeurs Boulay 4488 de l'Amour [16]
Philippe Brach Portraits de famine [17]
Safia Nolin Limoilou
Richard Séguin Les horizons nouveaux
Mara Tremblay, Michel Rivard, Luc De Larochellière, Éric Goulet, Gilles Bélanger, Ariane Ouellet, Carl Prévost Sept jours en mai
2017
13th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Luc de Larochellière Autre monde [18]
Philippe B La grande nuit vidéo [19]
Catherine Durand La pluie entre nous
Patrice Michaud Almanach
Vivianne Roy, Katrine Noël, Julie Aubé (Les Hay Babies) La 4ième dimension (version longue)
2018
14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Anik Bérubé, Natalie Byrns, Christian Bernard, Frédéric Joyal (Ancolie) Le soleil en bulle [20]
Danny Boudreau Mon été [21]
Étienne Fletcher Face A
Benoit Pinette (Tire le coyote) Désherbage
Kristine St-Pierre La promesse

2020s

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Year Nominee Album Ref
2020
15th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Bernard Adamus C’qui nous reste du Texas [22]
Jordane Labrie, Clement Desjardins 12 jours [23]
Jean Leloup L’étrange pays
Safia Nolin Dans le noir
Caroline Savoie Pourchasser l’aube
2021
16th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Marie-Ève Lapierre-Lemoyne Onze [24]
Guillaume Arsenault La partie de moi qui tremble [25]
Raphaël Delahaye Le sens de la dérive
Flavie Léger-Roy Ce chapeau est trop grand pour moi
Alexandre Poulin Nature humaine
2022
17th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Reney Ray À l'ouest du réel [26]
Guillaume Beaulac Guillaume Beaulac [27]
Anne-Sophie Doré-Coulombe Nos maisons
Émilie Landry Arroser les fleurs
Flavie Léger-Roy Les trous dans les coeurs
2023
18th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Geneviève Roberge-Bouchard, Alain Barbeau J’attends encore
Anik Bérubé, Natalie Byrns Les ébranlements [28]
Sébastien Lacombe Le chemin des possibles
Héra Ménard, Guylaine Saint-Pierre Fleurs
Matt Stern Rien qu'un animal
2024
19th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Aleksi Campagne, Michelle Campagne For the Giving / Sans rien donner [29]
Éric Dion, André Lavergne La nouvelle saison [30]
Catherine Durand La maison orpheline
Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle, Léandre Joly-Pelletier Là-bas-Veranda
Marie-Ève Laure Reviens

References

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  2. ^ "Bruce Cockburn up for 4 Canadian Folk Music Awards". CBC News, October 17, 2007.
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  13. ^ Lynn Saxberg, "Folkies set to honour their own". Ottawa Citizen, September 25, 2014.
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  20. ^ "The LYNNeS, Pharis Romero Win Multiple CFMAs". FYI Music News, December 3, 2018.
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  26. ^ Heather Kitching, "The Canadian Folk Music Awards 2022 – winners and highlights". Roots Music Canada, April 2, 2022.
  27. ^ Megan Lapierre, "Canadian Folk Music Awards Announce 2022 Nominees". Exclaim!, September 28, 2021.
  28. ^ Stephen Cooke, "Madison Violet, Shannon & Tony Quinn among 2023 Canadian Folk Music Award nominees". SaltWire Network, October 5, 2022.
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  30. ^ Nika Petrosian, "Canadian Folk Music Awards Unveil 2024 Nominees". Exclaim!, October 18, 2023.