# Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Singer of the Year

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

## 2000s

| Year | Nominee | Album |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lynn Miles | Love Sweet Love |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dave Gunning | Two Bit World |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | John Wort Hannam | Dynamite and Dozers |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | Connie Kaldor | Sky with Nothing to Get in the Way |
| 2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards | Gordie Sampson | Sunburn |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 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 | Stephen Fearing | Yellowjacket |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lennie Gallant | When We Get There |
| 2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ron Hynes | Ron Hynes |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | David Francey | Right of Passage |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jill Barber | For All Time |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Bruce Cockburn | Life Short Call Now |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jeremy Fisher | Goodbye Blue Monday |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | T. Nile | At My Table |
| 2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dawn Tyler Watson | En Duo |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Tannis Slimmon | Lucky Blue |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dave Carroll | Perfect Blue |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rita Chiarelli | Uptown Goes Downtown |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Amos Garrett | Get Way Back: A Tribute to Percy Mayfield |
| 2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Wyckham Porteous | 3AM |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jim Byrnes | My Walking Stick |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Marianne Girard | Pirate Days |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Melissa McClelland | Victoria Day |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jessica Rhaye | Good Things |
| 2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Suzie Vinnick | Happy Here |

## 2010s

| Year | Nominee | Album |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rose Cousins | The Send Off |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | James Keelaghan | House of Cards |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lynn Miles | Black Flowers Volume 1 & 2 |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Nathan Rogers | The Gauntlet |
| 2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Justin Rutledge | The Early Widows |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Suzie Vinnick | Me 'n' Mabel |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Matthew Barber | Matthew Barber |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Bruce Cockburn | Small Source of Comfort |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Cat Jahnke | The Stories are Taking Their Toll |
| 2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards | David Myles | Live at the Carleton |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rose Cousins | We Have Made a Spark |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Craig Cardiff | Floods and Fires |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Geraldine Hollett | Row Upon Row of the People They Know |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Keri Latimer | Crowsfeet and Greyskull |
| 2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Catherine MacLellan | Silhouette |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ian Sherwood | Live at the Hive |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Stephen Fearing | Between Hurricanes |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | John Wort Hannam | Brambles and Thorns |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Old Man Luedecke | Tender Is the Night |
| 2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Justin Rutledge | Valleyheart |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Matt Andersen | Weightless |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Del Barber | Prairieography |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Matthew Barber | Big Romance |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | James Keelaghan | History |
| 2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jadea Kelly | Clover |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Amelia Curran | They Promised You Mercy |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Peter Katz | We Are the Reckoning |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Sarah MacDougall | Grand Canyon |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Catherine MacLellan | The Raven's Sun |
| 2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jory Nash | The Many Hats of Jory Nash |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jadea Kelly | Love & Lust |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Matt Andersen | Honest Man |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Megan Bonnell | Magnolia |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Danny Michel | Matadora |
| 2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards | William Prince | Earthly Days |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Stephen Fearing | Every Soul's a Sailor |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Coco Love Alcorn | Wonderland |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Abigail Lapell | Hide Nor Hair |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lisa LeBlanc | Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? |
| 2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Oh Susanna | A Girl in Teen City |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rob Lutes | Walk in the Dark |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Kellie Loder | Benefit of the Doubt |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Catherine MacLellan | If It's Alright With You: The Songs of Gene MacLellan |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dylan Menzie | As the Clock Rewinds |
| 2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dana Wylie | The Earth That You're Made Of |

## 2020s

| Year | Nominee | Album |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Matt Andersen | Halfway Home By Morning |
| 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 | Lydia Persaud | Let Me Show You |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Andrea Ramolo | Homage |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Coco Love Alcorn | Rebirth |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Basia Bulat | Are You in Love? |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Tim Chaisson | Yours to Break |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Catherine MacLellan | Coyote |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | William Prince | Reliever |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rob Lutes | Come Around |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Kelly Bado | Hey Terre |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Craig Cardiff | All This Time Running |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Denise Flack | Good Water |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Terra Spencer | Chasing Rabbits |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Kyle McKearney | Down-Home |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Barney Bentall | Cosmic Dreamer |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Boy Golden | Church of Better Daze |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Angelique Francis | Long River |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ken Yates | Cerulean |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Suzie Vinnick | Fall Back Home |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Kaeley Jade | Turpentine |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Joe Nolan | Lost Verses |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Terra Spencer | Old News |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Julian Taylor | Beyond the Reservoir |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Shaun Ferguson | La Lumière de l'ombre, l'ombre de la lumière |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jason Fowler | Forelsket |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jeremie Groleau | Uphill |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Merrie Klazek | Dance Around the Sun |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Miles Zurawell | Far Afield |