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Awards News

Toronto music producer Bob Ezrin was recently named as a recipient of the lifetime artistic achievement award by The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation, a significant honour in the performing arts in Canada. Others named include and actors Graham Greene and Patrick Huard, Sandra Laronde, the founding artistic director of the Indigenous performance company Red Sky Performance, and classical composer Denis Gougeon, whose array of works include music for solo instruments, chamber groups, orchestra, ballet and opera. Also announced was the National Arts Centre Award for extraordinary work in the past performance year, going to two-time Polaris Prize-wining musician and ethnomusicologist Jeremy Dutcher. The awards celebration is set for June 14 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.