{"id":547659,"date":"2026-03-19T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547659\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:18:08","slug":"juno-awards-to-feature-nelly-furtado-musical-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547659\/","title":{"rendered":"Juno Awards to feature Nelly Furtado musical tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HAMILTON \u2014 Nelly Furtado will receive a musical toast at the Juno Awards this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The ceremony will feature a tribute to the Victoria-born songstress in honour of her induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Juno organizer CARAS says the tribute will include performances from Alessia Cara, Jully Black, Shawn Desman and Tanya Tagaq, \u201calong with some very special guests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CARAS says they\u2019ll be joined on stage by Furtado\u2019s band, led by musical director Herag Sanbalian, \u201cwho has curated a selection of her greatest hits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Other newly announced performers at the ceremony will include MICO, a Filipino-Canadian alt-pop artist who got his start performing in Discord communities, and Sofia Camara, who is nominated for breakthrough artist of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Junos will be handed out at a gala on Saturday, March 28 and during a live broadcast hosted by comedian Mae Martin on Sunday, March 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 Nelly Furtado will receive a musical toast at the Juno Awards this year. The ceremony will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[76,49,48,75,4852,341],"class_list":["post-547659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-human-interest","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}