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Yellowknife's Leela Gilday is working on a new album in Dene language. (Supplied by Leela Gilday.)
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Leela Gilday and Tanya Tagaq nominated for Juno awards

Ollie Williams
By Ollie Williams

Yellowknife’s Leela Gilday will go up against Tanya Tagaq at this year’s Juno awards.

Gilday (pictured) and former Yellowknife resident Tagaq are two of the nominees for Aboriginal Album of the Year, for Heart of the People and Animism respectively.

Animism won Tagaq the $30,000 Polaris Music Prize last year, while Gilday picked up a Juno in 2007.

Click here for a full list of this year’s Juno award nominees (PDF). The winners will be announced in March.

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