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After a four-month delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Country Music Association of Ontario held the annual CMAOntario Awards with a live drive-in show at The Raceway at the Western Fair District in London.<\/p>\n
Meghan Patrick led with three wins, followed by Tim Hicks, James Barker Band, and The Reklaws with two wins each.<\/p>\n
It was also a big night for Chatham’s\u00a0Aaron Allen, who took home the Rising Star award.<\/p>\n
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The CMAO Awards were hosted by Jason McCoy, as 225 vehicles came out to see live performances by Tim Hicks, James Barker Band, The Reklaws, The Abrams, Eric Ethridge and Kalsey Kulyk, Genevieve Fisher, Kelsi Mayne, Les Rats d\u2019Swompe, Nicole Rayy, Ryan Langdon, and The Western Swing Authority.<\/p>\n
For the grand finale, fellow CMAOntario performers joined McCoy on stage for a special rendition of his song \u201cWe Are One World.\u201d<\/p>\n
HERE IS THE FULL LIST OF WINNERS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n SINGLE OF THE YEAR ALBUM OF THE YEAR SONGWRITER(S) OF THE YEAR sponsored by SOCAN FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR sponsored by Spring Tree Farm MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR sponsored by ECAO\/IBEW GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR sponsored by Country 103 ROOTS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR sponsored by Skelton Truck Lines FRANCOPHONE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR sponsored by Desjardins RISING STAR sponsored by Slaight Music MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR sponsored by MNP FANS\u2019 CHOICE sponsored by Ontario Creates RECORD PRODUCER OF THE YEAR sponsored by Metalworks Studios NIELSEN COMPASS AWARD
\n\u201cKeep it Simple\u201d \u2013 James Barker Band<\/p>\n
\nWild As Me \u2013 Meghan Patrick<\/p>\n
\nMeghan Patrick, Jordan Rager, Michael Whitworth \u2013 \u201cWild As Me\u201d, Recorded by Meghan Patrick<\/p>\n
\nMeghan Patrick<\/p>\n
\nTim Hicks<\/p>\n
\nThe Reklaws<\/p>\n
\nThe Abrams<\/p>\n
\nLes Rats d\u2019Swompe<\/p>\n
\nAaron Allen<\/p>\n
\n\u201cKeep It Simple\u201d \u2013 James Barker Band<\/p>\n
\nThe Reklaws<\/p>\n
\nJeff Dalziel \u2013 Aaron Allen, The Abrams, Dan Davidson, Chris Labelle, Ryan Langdon<\/p>\n
\nTim Hicks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a four-month delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Country Music Association of Ontario held the annual CMAOntario Awards with a live drive-in show at The Raceway at the Western Fair District in London.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1768,824,1770,826,193,385,551,1576,585,827,1771,323,31],"class_list":["post-10569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-aaron-allen","tag-cmao","tag-cmao-awards","tag-country-music-association-of-ontario","tag-eric-ethridge","tag-james-barker-band","tag-jason-mccoy","tag-kalsey-kulyk","tag-kelsi-mayne","tag-meghan-patrick","tag-nicole-rayy","tag-the-reklaws","tag-tim-hicks"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:59:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/10\/aaron-allen-wins-at-cmao-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10571,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions\/10571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}