![]() I’m very used to being an outcast in a room, but in this room I’m not.” So it’s nice to show up and be accepted and be loved so people can see that we’re all in this together…. “People always say that country music is so conservative. ![]() “I get to perform, I get to host, I get to be a drag queen,” she said. Priyanka, known out of drag as Mark Suknanan of Toronto, said being at the CCMA Awards was “a dream come true.” She said the look was an homage to the denim dress worn at the 2001 American Music Awards by Britney Spears, who was recently freed from a 13-year conservatorship. The two kicked off the show with Priyanka - winner of “Canada’s Drag Race” - in an asymmetrical blue sequin minidress belting, “Let’s go girls!” and singing the first verse of Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.” A sequin-draped Ell joined in for a partial duet on Bonnie Raitt’s “Something to Talk About.”Įarlier, Priyanka paused for photos with fans on the red carpet, showing off a bedazzled twist on the Canadian tuxedo - a studded denim bodysuit with matching jacket, boots and fringed cowboy hat. “It is so surreal to me to get to be a part of continuing that circle around and … I don’t even know if it’s quite sunk in yet.”ĭrag queen-turned-country music diva Priyanka injected some glam alongside fellow co-host Lindsay Ell of Calgary after COVID-19 restrictions turned last year’s show into a scaled-back, virtual event. “I’m just thinking of all of these heroes, these legendary female artists that I grew up listening to … and just being like, ‘Man, what a dream it would be to follow in those footsteps someday,’” Townes said. Townes described Monday’s show as “surreal,” saying backstage that she felt “honoured to be part of the Canadian country music community” after a week’s worth of events also capped by Patricia Conroy’s induction the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. Tenille Townes of Grand Prairie, Alta., earned two awards, repeating as top female artist for a third straight year and adding an album of the year trophy for “The Lemonade Stand.” The Reklaws, a brother-sister pair comprised of Jenna and Stuart Walker, won top group or duo of the year, thanking their parents - “the first duo to shine in our eyes,” Stuart said in their acceptance speech and again backstage. “Last year we did what we could with the CCMAs … but now we’re more back to normal and what this needs to be.” ![]() “I had this date knocked on the calendar for quite a while, (it’s) signifying getting back together for a lot of people in the industry,” he said. Smith, accepting his first award of the night, thanked organizers for “doing what they needed to do to get people in a building again and bring this genre and live music back to life.”īackstage, he called his entertainer of the year award the “icing on the cake” to a weekend spent with country music fans and artists in person. The bash marked the return of the CCMA show to the live-event sphere for the first time since Calgary hosted in 2019. Smith claimed the top entertainer title for the third straight year, beating out Brett Kissel of Flat Lake, Alta. The 43-year-old from Langley, B.C., who performed his single “Hide From a Broken Heart” for the fully vaccinated crowd at Budweiser Gardens, also won the male artist of the year award and single of the year for “Like A Man.” Dallas Smith was the big winner at the Canadian Country Music Association award show Monday night, nabbing three trophies including entertainer of the year at a splashy live-streamed event in front of thousands of in-person spectators.
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