Awards

 
 
   
 

2023 “Bobby Blue Bland” Lifetime Achievement Blues Award
from Jus Blues Foundation, Atlanta, GA

2021 Western Canadian Music Award Artistic Winner
BreakOut West Artist of the Year

“2017 Boogie Woogie Piano Hall of Fame”
Arches Piano Stage, Cincy Blues Festival
Cincinnati, Ohio

“2015 Most Outstanding Musician (keyboard) awarded by the
Living Blues  Magazine Critics Poll”

“2012 Keyboard Player of the Year” awarded by the Calgary Blues Music Association”

“2012 & 2021 Most Outstanding Musician (keyboard) awarded by the
Living Blues Magazine Critics’ Poll”

“2012 New Recordings 2011 Contemporary Blues awarded by the Living Blues Magazine Critics’ Poll”

“2012 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Award”
Nominated by BMA (formerly the W.C. Handy) for the top 5 blues
pianist in the USA

Winner of “2010 Living Blues piano player of the year”

Winner of “2010 Blues Piano Player of the Year” Award
Presented by the Bay Area Blues and Hall of Fame Society

“GOLD REMI AWARD WINNER 2009”
The American Music Research Foundation’s “International Boogie Woogie” was honored with a 2009 Gold Remi Award for Television or Cable Documentary at Worldfest, the 42nd Annual Houston International Film Festival. WorldFest is one of the oldest and largest film & video competitions in the world, with more than 4,500 category entries received from 33 countries in 2009. Awards were determined by points accumulated in juried viewings.

JUNO AWARD – Winner
2006 Blues Album Of The Year “Let it Loose”

JUNO AWARD – Nominee
2018 Best Blues Recording “Big City Back Country Blues”
2002 Best Blues Recording “88th & Jump Street”
1998 Best Blues Recording “Blues Boss Boogie”
1996 Best Blues Recording “Alive & Loose”

MAPLE BLUES  AWARD – Winner – Piano Player of the Year
(Toronto Blues Society)
2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2011,  2017 & 2020

MAPLE BLUES AWARD
(Toronto Blues Society)
Nominee, 2005 Producer of the Year
Nominee, 2005, 2011 Entertainer of the Year
Nominee, Piano Player of the year ’97-’01,’04, ’07, ’08,’09,’10,18,19
Nominee, Recording of the year 1998

BRONZE MEDAL – KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE IN FRANCE
Bronze Medal in recognition of contributions to keeping the BLUES ALIVE in FRANCE

16th ANNUAL BILLBOARD WORLD SONG CONTEST – Honorable Mention – Top 500

REAL BLUES MAGAZINE WINNER
Blues Artist of the year 2001
Best Canadian Blues Pianist 1997 – 2005
Best Canadian Blues Song “Potential Danger” ’98
Best Canadian Blues CD of the year ’98
Best Canadian Songwriter ’97
Best Live Canadian ’97