The Country Music Association of Ontario (CMAOntario) held their 12th Annual CMAOntario Awards, presented by Slaight Music on Sunday, June 2 in Hammerson Hall at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga.<\/p>\n
Jason Blaine, Owen Riegling, and James Barker Band each took home two CMAOntario trophies.<\/p>\n
The show included special performances by 2024 CMAOntario award winners Owen Riegling, Jason Blaine, Nicole Rayy, and Elyse Saunders, and nominees Karli June, Griffen Palmer, River Town Saints, Sugar Crush, Callie McCullough, Ryan Langdon, and The Western Swing Authority.<\/p>\n
The Winners of the 12th Annual CMAOntario Awards are:<\/p>\n
SINGLE OF THE YEAR sponsored by Pure Country
\nThe Road that Raised You Up – Jason Blaine<\/p>\n
ALBUM OF THE YEAR sponsored by Country 106.7 Kitchener
\nGreatest Show on Dirt – Meghan Patrick<\/p>\n
SONGWRITER(S) OF THE YEAR sponsored by SOCAN
\nJason Blaine, The Road the Raised You Up, recorded by Jason Blaine<\/p>\n
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR sponsored by IBEW Local 353
\nElyse Saunders<\/p>\n
MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR sponsored by IBEW Local 353
\nOwen Riegling<\/p>\n
GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR sponsored by Country 103
\nJames Barker Band<\/p>\n
RECORD PRODUCER(S) OF THE YEAR
\nShawn Moore<\/p>\n
ROOTS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
\nMackenzie Leigh Meyer<\/p>\n
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR sponsored by Slaight Music
\nOwen Riegling<\/p>\n
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR sponsored by Jim Dunlop Productions
\nHonky Tonkin About – The Reklaws ft. Drake Milligan
\nDirty – Nicole Rayy
\n(Tied)<\/p>\n
INDUSTRY PERSON OF THE YEAR sponsored by Manrk\u0113
\nDave Woods<\/p>\n
FRANCOPHONE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
\nReney Ray<\/p>\n
FANS\u2019 CHOICE sponsored by Visit Mississauga
\nTim Hicks<\/p>\n
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR sponsored by Cithara Guitars
\nShane Guse<\/p>\n
COMPASS AWARD
\nJames Barker Band<\/p>\n
HOLLY & STEVE KASSAY GENEROUS SPIRIT AWARD
\nWalter Nowakowski<\/p>\n
IMPACT AWARD
\nCharlie Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Country Music Association of Ontario (CMAOntario) held their 12th Annual CMAOntario Awards, presented by Slaight Music on Sunday, June 2 in Hammerson Hall at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":28836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1770,1701,826,4731,385,1574,827,1771,4621,31],"class_list":["post-28835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cmao-awards","tag-cmaontario","tag-country-music-association-of-ontario","tag-elyse-saunders","tag-james-barker-band","tag-jason-blaine","tag-meghan-patrick","tag-nicole-rayy","tag-owen-riegling","tag-tim-hicks"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 23:07:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/06\/cmaontario-award-winners-announced\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835","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=28835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}