# Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year

The Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year is an annual music award, presented by the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the best albums in contemporary folk music by Canadian artists.

## 2000s

| Year | Nominee | Album |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | Nathan | Jimson Weed |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Bills | Let 'Em Run |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Clumsy Lovers | Smart Kid |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | David Francey | Waking Hour |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jenny Whiteley | Hopetown |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Penny Lang | Stone & Sand & Sea & Sky |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jim Byrnes | House of Refuge |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Bruce Cockburn | Life Short Call Now |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Corb Lund | Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Wailin' Jennys | Firecracker |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Duhks | Migrations |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jim Bryson | Where the Bungalows Roam |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | David Francey | Right of Passage |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Oh Susanna | Short Stories |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jenny Whiteley | Dear |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Luke Doucet and the White Falcon | Blood's Too Rich |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Annabelle Chvostek | Resilience |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | NQ Arbuckle | XOK |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Justin Rutledge | Man Descending |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Oliver Schroer | Hymns and Hers |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Joel Plaskett | Three |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jim Byrnes | My Walking Stick |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Great Lake Swimmers | Lost Channels |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Romi Mayes | Achin in Yer Bones |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ndidi Onukwulu | The Contradictor |

## 2010s

| Year | Nominee | Album |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | John Wort Hannam | Queen's Hotel |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Amelia Curran | Hunter, Hunter |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dala | Girls from the North Country |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lennie Gallant | If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Old Man Luedecke | My Hands Are on Fire and Other Love Songs |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Bruce Cockburn | Small Source of Comfort |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Les Charbonniers de l'enfer | Nouvelles fréquentations |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Good Lovelies | Let The Rain Fall |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lynn Miles | Fall for Beauty |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Twilight Hotel | When the Wolves Go Blind |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Deep Dark Woods | The Place I Left Behind |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rose Cousins | We Have Made a Spark |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Old Man Luedecke and Lake of Stew | Sing All About It |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Linda McRae | Rough Edges and Ragged Hearts |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Whitehorse | Whitehorse |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Justin Rutledge | Valleyheart |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Annabelle Chvostek | Rise |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | David Francey | So Say We All |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lynn Miles | Downpour |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ruth Moody | These Wilder Things |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Strumbellas | We Still Move on Dance Floors |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Matt Andersen | Weightless |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Bros. Landreth | Let it Lie |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Colleen Rennison | See the Sky About to Rain |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jill Zmud | Small Matters of Life and Death |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Catherine MacLellan | The Raven's Sun |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jon Brooks | The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jenn Grant | Compostela |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Once | Departures |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Gabrielle Papillon | The Tempest of Old |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | David Francey | Empty Train |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Big Little Lions | Just Keep Moving |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Corin Raymond | Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Strumbellas | Hope |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Donovan Woods | Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Abigail Lapell | Hide Nor Hair |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Fretless | Bird's Nest |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Tomato Tomato | I Go Where You Go |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Braden Gates | Much Rather Be Sleeping |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Leif Vollebekk | Twin Solitude |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Donovan Woods | Both Ways |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier | Two |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Lynnes | Heartbreak Song for the Radio |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Gabrielle Papillon | Keep the Fire |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Wailin' Jennys | Fifteen |

## 2020s

| Year | Nominee | Album |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Small Glories | Assiniboine & The Red |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lennie Gallant | Time Travel |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ariana Gillis | The Maze |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jenn Grant | Love, Inevitable |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dave Gunning | Up Against the Sky |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Abigail Lapell | Getaway |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Leaf Rapids | Citizen Alien |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Various Artists | The Al Purdy Songbook |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | William Prince | Reliever |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Basia Bulat | Are You in Love? |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Dead South | Sugar & Joy |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The East Pointers | Yours to Break |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Stephen Fearing | The Unconquerable Past |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Catherine MacLellan | Coyote |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Mike McKenna Jr. | At the Edge of the World |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Joe Nolan | Drifters |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Allison Russell | Outside Child |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Beyries | Encounter |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Craig Cardiff | All This Time Running |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rick Fines | Solar Powered Too |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | David Leask | Voyageur in Song |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rob Lutes | Come Around |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ryland Moranz | XO, 1945 |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Reney Ray | À l'ouest du réel |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | John Wort Hannam | Long Haul |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Shawna Caspi | Hurricane Coming |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Digging Roots | Zhawenim |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Madison Violet | eleven |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Kyle McKearney | Down-Home |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Sultans of String | Sanctuary |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Tanya Tagaq | Tongues |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ken Yates | Cerulean |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | William Prince | Stand in the Joy |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jill Barber | Homemaker |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The East Pointers | House of Dreams |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lynn Miles | TumbleWeedyWorld |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Tami Neilson | Kingmaker |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | NQ Arbuckle | Love Songs for the Long Game |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | The Sadies | Colder Streams |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Terra Spencer, Ben Caplan | Old News |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Sandra Bouza | A Sound in the Dark |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Boy Golden | For Jimmy |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lynne Hanson | Just a Poet |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Juurini | Aqqutinni |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Kaia Kater | Strange Medicine |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Abigail Lapell | Anniversary |