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Music News Digest: Canadian Blues Music Awards 'Fully Overhauls' Maple Blues Awards Following Controversy

After criticism over lack of recognition for Black artists, the Toronto Blues Society has replaced its long-running awards show. Also this week: IMSTA FESTA returns at Toronto Metropolitan University, Opera Atelier celebrates its 40th anniversary and more.

The long-running Maple Blues Awards, produced by the Toronto Blues Society to honour the best in Canadian blues since 1997, are no more. In its place as Canada's only national blues music awards programme, are the just-inaugurated Canadian Blues Music Awards, an incorporated national not-for-profit whose mandate is to govern all the processes leading up to the awards ceremony.

Last year's Maple Blues Awards faced heavy criticism for its winner list, which awarded only white artists (with one exception, Indigenous Artist of the Year, Crystal Shawanda.) The Toronto Blues Society held town halls to decide how to create greater transparency and accountability within the organization.

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