Records shattered at Fraser Valley Music Awards<\/p>\n
Published 2:35 pm Monday, July 20, 2026<\/p>\n
Another year of the Fraser Valley Music Awards has come and gone, celebrating some of the region\u2019s best musicians. <\/p>\n
The 11th annual award ceremony took place on July 16 at Abbotsford\u2019s Jam in Jubilee event series, with dozens of local artists nominated and more than $10,000 in prize money distributed.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest winners of the evening was Abbotsford\u2019s Nelly P., who received $1,027.66 of the prize pool and won both the Fan Vote Award and Excellence by a BIMPOC (black, indigenous, multiracial, and people of colour) Artist.<\/p>\n
Nelly P. also set the Fraser Valley Music Awards record for the biggest share of fan votes, earning more than 10 per cent of the total votes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
All 37 finalists received a share of the $10,170 prize pool, with the number of votes determining the amount per artist. <\/p>\n
Coming in a close second place for the Dakota Leslie Memorial Fan Vote was Chilliwack\u2019s Adam Cebula, who walked away with a total prize of $898.40.<\/p>\n
Cebula also won Country Artist of the Year at his first-ever Fraser Valley Music Awards and closed out the evening with an acoustic performance amid a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Another first-time nominee who walked away a winner was White Rock\u2019s Monica Gregory, who took Hip Hop\/R&B Artist of the Year.<\/p>\n
The total list of winners at the 2026 Fraser Valley Music Awards includes:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Punk\/Metal Artist of the Year \u2014 Quickness (Maple Ridge)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Hip Hop\/R&B Artist of the Year \u2014 Monica Gregory (White Rock)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Classical Artist of the Year \u2014 Zeke Morales (Abbotsford)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Singer-Songwriter Artist of the Year \u2014 Mark Hildebrand (Langley)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Rock Artist of the Year \u2014 Tess Anderson (Surrey)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Experimental Artist of the Year \u2014 DJ Elixir (Mission)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Country Artist of the Year \u2014 Adam Cebula (Chilliwack)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Blues Artist of the Year \u2014 Dale Sawatzky (Langley)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Alternative\/Indie Artist of the Year \u2014 Jiya Notta (Surrey)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Gospel Artist of the Year \u2014 Amy Van Bergen (Surrey)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jazz Artist of the Year \u2014 Morning Glories (Mission, Langley, and Surrey)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Pop Artist of the Year \u2014 Danny Baylen (Langley)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Excellence by a BIMPOC Artist \u2014 Nelly P. (Abbotsford)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Excellence by an Indigenous Artist \u2014 Joe Gundrum (Chilliwack)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Excellence by a Female Artist \u2014 Carly Reirson (Abbotsford)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Excellence by a Queer Artist \u2014 The Out Seer (New Westminster)<\/p>\n
One of the speakers at this year\u2019s event was Abbotsford South MLA Bruce Banman, who voiced his support for programs like Jam in Jubilee and the Fraser Valley Music Awards.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvents like this give families and residents a much-needed night out without the cost of admission,\u201d said Banman.<\/p>\n
\u201cI strongly support events that bring people downtown, create opportunities for local performers, support vendors and businesses, and give our community a reason to gather together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Records shattered at Fraser Valley Music Awards Published 2:35 pm Monday, July 20, 2026 Another year of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-816061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816061","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=816061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}