"The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize." - from Wikipedia.
The Polaris Music Prize is a juried prize that seeks to provide an award for Canadian music that focuses entirely on musical quality, rather than being determined by sales or music label connections.
Polaris jurors select the five albums by Canadian artists that they feel best meet the award criteria; from those, a long list of forty albums is compiled. From that long list, jurors are then asked to select five albums from the long list that they feel best meet the award criteria. The ten most popular choices from the long list comprise the short list. A Grand Jury of 11 individuals then vote to choose the Polaris winner, who will be announced on September 21 at the Masonic Temple in Toronto.
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