Juno Awards push event to May due to COVID-19 pandemic

The televised clearly show will consider put on May possibly sixteen, 2021, about a thirty day period and a half just after its initially prepared day in March.

Allan Reid, head of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, says the go is supposed to give artists and the local community a lot more options to rejoice in a time when physical distancing measures are expected to nevertheless be in put.

“We also hope that the hotter weather conditions will convey a lot more possibilities for some exceptional outside programming,” he claimed in a push meeting.

“The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a massive influence on the city and our tunes community, but we will be resilient and dwell tunes will return, and we will be there to enable in any way we can.”

The return of the Juno Awards to Toronto, for the first time in a ten years, was expected to be an in particular splashy affair, with a lot of past honourees returning for the momentous occasion, which was slated to be held within the Scotiabank Arena.

No matter if any of the Juno occasions can be held indoors is still to be decided, Reid claimed.

The corporation also stopped brief of asserting designs for Juno Week, a sequence of concert events and occasions primary up to the broadcast that in other a long time have demonstrated to be a company boon for local bars and concert halls.

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A new seem for the Juno statuette was also unveiled for its anniversary.

The current structure can take inspiration from designer Shirley Elford’s human-shaped molten-glass award, first handed out in 2000, but will come in 3 distinct variations.

The gold Juno will be given to Juno Award winners, whilst a silver version is for recipients of a special Juno prize, and a gold and silver variation is for Canadian Audio Hall of Fame inductees.