{"id":686932,"date":"2026-05-22T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686932\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:56:10","slug":"goldie-boutilier-maggie-andrew-among-winners-at-east-coast-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686932\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldie Boutilier, Maggie Andrew among winners at East Coast Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/FRU4LF7NSNHTBPOIO5M3YE7LGQ.jpg?auth=99c94b9da2793d98170487e9d0d083da4013f1b02b10db86bf23d79098d81258&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Goldie Boutilier performs at the BottleRock Napa Valley, in Calif., May, 2025.Amy Harris\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Cape Breton artists cleaned up at the East Coast Music Awards on Thursday night in Sydney, N.S., led by singer-songwriter Goldie Boutilier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Boutilier took home the awards for breakthrough artist of the year and album of the year, for her recording, Goldie Boutilier Presents \u2026 Goldie Montan<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Boutilier was emotional as she accepted the latter prize, saying Cape Breton gave her the grit and stubbornness to persevere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The Barra MacNeils, also from Cape Breton, were honoured with a lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Maggie Andrew of Nova Scotia won pop release of the year, and Kellie Loder, from Newfoundland and Labrador, won songwriter of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">La Famille LeBlanc of New Brunswick won francophone artist of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The five-day East Coast Music Awards festival and conference runs until Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Goldie Boutilier performs at the BottleRock Napa Valley, in Calif., May, 2025.Amy Harris\/The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,75,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,341,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-686932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-music","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686932","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=686932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}