2013 | Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group | The Wooden Sky | | The JUNO Awards

The Wooden Sky has grown exponentially throughout the years -- both physically and figuratively. Spanning three records, countless tours, and dozens of collaborators, the group's development over the past decade can be used as a measuring stick in the Southern Ontario scene they've helped to curate. Their reverence-turned-subversion of accepted notions in American-based music have made them tireless innovators, consistently finding new wrinkles within a genre as broad as it seems ageless. The group's commitment to consistent re-examination and reinterpretation led to a newfound depth in arrangements apparent on the highly anticipated Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun. The key to the Every Child...'s success is the enormous but very organic space you feel between instruments, mingling with an open and honest form of storytelling, and the intuitive interplay between bandmates. Enveloped in a warm, rich bed of support behind the emotionally naked vocals, the dissonance lingering amongst the recording is breathtaking. Shifting from lilting, finger-picked folk ballads and rustic, sepia-toned country twang to skipping indie rock and contemplative ruminations on days gone by, they create a secret world where memories return as ghosts. On this rich tapestry of atmosphere and salvos, the past is never far behind.