# Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group

The Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group was presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the roots and/or traditional music genres. The award was first presented in 1996 under the name Best Roots & Traditional Album - Group, and adopted its current name in 2003. Prior to 1996, the Junos presented only a single award in the category, inclusive of both groups and solo artists, under the name Best Roots & Traditional Album.
Beginning with the 2016 ceremony, two new awards categories (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year and Traditional Roots Album of the Year) were introduced to "ensure two genres of music are not competing against each other in the same category".

## Winners
### Best Roots & Traditional Album - Group (1996 - 2002)

| Year | Winner(s) | Album | Nominees |
| 1996 | The Irish Descendants | Gypsies & Lovers | Great Big Sea, Up The Paperboys, Late As Usual Orealis, Night Visions The Wyrd Sisters, Inside the Dreaming |
| 1997 | Kate & Anna McGarrigle | Matapédia | Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, High or Hurtin' La Bottine Souriante, En Spectacle Bill Bourne and Shannon Johnson, Victory Train Rawlins Cross, Living River |
| 1998 | The Paperboys | Molinos | Great Big Sea, Play James Keelaghan and Oscar Lopez, Compadres Leahy, Leahy Wyrd Sisters, Raw Voice |
| 1999 | Kate & Anna McGarrigle | The McGarrigle Hour | Bourque, Bernard et Lepage, Matapat Heartbreak Hill, Heartbreak Hill Puirt a Baroque, Return of the Wanderer Zubot and Dawson, Strang |
| 2000 | Blackie and the Rodeo Kings | Kings of Love | Barachois, Encore! La Bottine Souriante, Xième Great Big Sea, Turn Scruj MacDuhk, The Road to Canso |
| 2001 | Tri-Continental | Tri-Continental | Barra MacNeils, Racket in the Attic The Paperboys, Postcards La Volée d'Castors, VDC Zubot and Dawson, Tractor Parts: Further Adventures in Strang |
| 2002 | La Bottine Souriante | Cordial | The Brothers Cosmoline, Songs of Work & Freedom Matapat, Petit fou Undertakin' Daddies, Post Atomic Hillbilly The Wyrd Sisters, Sin & Other Salvations |

### Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group (2003 - 2015)

| Year | Winner(s) | Album | Nominees |
| 2003 | Zubot and Dawson | Chicken Scratch | The Bill Hilly Band, All Day Every Day The Corb Lund Band, Five Dollar Bill The Duhks, Your Daughters and Your Sons John Reischman and the Jaybirds, Field Guide |
| 2004 | Le Vent du Nord | Maudite Moisson | Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, BARK La Bottine Souriante, J'ai jamais tant ri Creaking Tree String Quartet, The Creaking Tree String Quartet Pierre Schryer Band, Blue Drag |
| 2005 | The Wailin' Jennys | 40 Days | The Bills, Let Em Run Leahy, In All Things Nathan, Jimson Weed La Volée d'Castors, Migration |
| 2006 | The Duhks | The Duhks | Elliott Brood, Ambassador Genticorum, Malins plaisirs Great Big Sea, The Hard and the Easy Sexsmith and Kerr, Destination Unknown |
| 2007 | The McDades | Bloom | Be Good Tanyas, Hello Love Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Let's Frolic The Dukhs, Migrations The Wailin' Jennys, Firecracker |
| 2008 | Nathan | Key Principles | James Keelaghan and Oscar Lopez, ¿Buddy, Where You Been? Harry Manx and Kevin Breit, In Good We Trust Ellen McIlwaine with Cassius Khan, Mystic Bridge John Reischman and the Jaybirds, Stellar Jays The Sadies, New Seasons |
| 2009 | Chic Gamine | Chic Gamine | The Duhks, Fast Paced World Elliott Brood, Mountain Meadows NQ Arbuckle, XOK Twilight Hotel, Highway Prayer |
| 2010 | The Good Lovelies | The Good Lovelies | Annie Lou, Annie Lou Great Lake Swimmers, Lost Channels Madison Violet, No Fool for Trying Carolyn Mark and NQ Arbuckle, Let's Just Stay Here |
| 2011 | Le Vent du Nord | La part du feu | Chic Gamine, City City Creaking Tree String Quartet, Sundogs Dala, Girls from the North Country- Dala Live in Concert The Marigolds, That's the State I'm In |
| 2012 | The Wailin' Jennys | Bright Morning Stars | The Deep Dark Woods, The Place I Left Behind The Good Lovelies, Let the Rain Fall The Once, Row Upon Row of the People They Know Twilight Hotel, When the Wolves Go Blind |
| 2013 | Elliott Brood | Days Into Years | Great Lake Swimmers, New Wild Everywhere The Strumbellas, My Father and the Hunter Le Vent du Nord, Tromper le temps The Wooden Sky, Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun |
| 2014 | The Strumbellas | We Still Move on Dance Floors | Lee Harvey Osmond, The Folk Sinner Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five, Bison Ranch Recording Sessions The Devin Cuddy Band, Volume One The Wilderness of Manitoba, Island of Echoes |
| 2015 | The Bros. Landreth | Let It Lie | Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, South The Deep Dark Woods, Jubilee Elliott Brood, Work and Love The Once, Departures |