2015 | Aboriginal Album of the Year (Sponsored by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) | Tomson Highway | | The JUNO Awards

Tomson Highway is a Cree playwright, novelist, and songwriter/pianist from sub-Arctic Manitoba. His best-known works are the plays, The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing, Rose and, most recently, The (Post) Mistress, from which come the 11 songs in the present submission. He divides his time between a cottage in northern Ontario (near Sudbury, from whence comes his partner of 30 years) and a house in Gatineau, Quebec, to be near infant grandchildren. He is also known for his best-selling novel, Kiss Of The Fur Queen. He writes in Cree (his mother tongue), English, and French (the language of his partner). As a pianist with a degree in music (piano performance) from the University of Western Ontario in London, he performs cabarets of his own songs all over the world.