{"id":376203,"date":"2026-04-12T17:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:46:29","slug":"folk-on-the-rocks-nominated-for-national-live-music-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376203\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk on the Rocks nominated for national live music award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folk on the Rocks is among seven nominees for small festival of the year at the 2026 Canadian Live Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Yellowknife\u2019s annual summer music festival is shortlisted alongside:<\/p>\n<p>Cicada Music &amp; Arts Festival, St Catharines<\/p>\n<p>Paris Drinks Festival, Paris, Ontario<\/p>\n<p>Festival of Small Halls, Ontario<\/p>\n<p>Minoshkite Indigenous Music Festival, Ottawa<\/p>\n<p>Pouzza Fest, Montreal<\/p>\n<p>Wavelength Festival, Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Festival executive director Teresa Horosko is separately shortlisted alongside eight other people in a category titled \u201cyour future boss\u201d that celebrates forward-looking music industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced during a ceremony at Toronto\u2019s Bluma Appel Theatre on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>Folk on the Rocks previously won the small festival category in 2023. Guelph\u2019s Hillside Festival won in 2024 and no awards ceremony was held in 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement.<br \/><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"OTM0LDE1LDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/ykracquetclub.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RC-cabin-radio-Generic.png\" width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement.<br \/><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTM0MCwxNSw2MA==\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sportnorth.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lunchtime-Webinar-Series-600-x-500-px.png\" width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly honoured to be recognized alongside so many inspiring festivals and industry leaders from across the country,\u201d Horosko was quoted as saying in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese nominations reflect the dedication of our entire team, our volunteers, artists, and the community that continues to support Folk On The Rocks year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Folk on the Rocks is among seven nominees for small festival of the year at the 2026 Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,129460],"class_list":["post-376203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-yellowknife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}