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The Canadian Folk Music Awards are getting ready to roll out in Calgary, April 9 to 12. Awards in 21 categories will be handed out in batches at the four major concerts, all featuring CFMA nominees, to be held over those four days. Launching the event is Songs and Stories at the Westin Calgary Ballroom on April 9. Celebrating storytelling, it features performances by Amanda Rheaume, Claire Morrison, Guillaume Arsenault, Robert Thomas & the Sessionmen, Terra Spencer and Wyatt C. Louis, and six awards will be handed out here.

Folk Forward, on April 10 at the Bella Concert Hall, hosts performances by Calgareal, AHI, recent Juno winner Aysanabee, Boreal, Duane Andrews and Yves Marchand, with seven awards distributed on the night. On April 11, Traditional and Global Roots (also at the Bella Concert Hall) presents Cassie and Maggie, Garcons a Marier, Joaquin Núñez & Habana Safari, Juno-winners Kazdoura, Sacred Wolf Singers with Simon Wall and Scott Duncan & Luka Hall and it sees six more awards presented.