MIMI Awards

by BrooklynVegan Mike

Socalled

This past weekend (Saturday, March 1st to be exact) the 11th Annual Montreal Independent Music Initiative (or MIMI) awards were handed out, celebrating the best in the Montreal local scene. This decade has been pretty good to Montreal music locally and abroad. It was announced that last year saw the most releases (over 350) in the history of the awards. The winners received a sweet, engraved Shure microphone along with some cool perks such as grant money or studio time. Though some of my picks for the awards didn't win (specifically Krista L.L. Muir and Torngat), the artists who did pick up awards were definitely worthy of recognition. Without further adieu, here are the winners....

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posted at 2:59 PM on March 5, 2008 in music | Comments (0)