P.E.I. artists bring home 4 East Coast Music Awards

Gwyneth Egan · CBC News

· Posted: May 11, 2025 3:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

P.E.I. artists are bringing location a fistful of East Coast Music Awards from the 37th yearly grant gala held Sunday. 

The East Coast Music Awards festival and league recognized and showcased the enactment of East Coast artists from May 7-11 successful St. John's. 

The Acadian radical Vishtèn Connexions won the medium of the twelvemonth grant for their medium Expansion, which pays tribute to founding member Pastelle LeBlanc. LeBlanc died of bosom crab successful 2022. 

"This Connexions task was an homage to LeBlanc, who near implicit 150 pieces connected her iPhone," Emmanuelle LeBlanc said during her acceptance speech. 

"It's truly meaningful for america due to the fact that we conscionable support going to enactment with her and beryllium capable to support going and play … her music," said Pascal Miousse.

The radical besides won awards for people merchandise of the twelvemonth and fusion merchandise of the twelvemonth for their song, Kouma. 

P.E.I. folk-pop creator Noah Malcolm won the grant for popular merchandise of the twelvemonth with his song, January. The triumph marks Malcolm's archetypal East Coast Music Award.  

The Stompin' Tom Award — recognizing the semipermanent contributions of 1 idiosyncratic successful each of the East Coast Music Association's 5 geographic regions — was fixed to was fixed to Ghislaine Cormier. Cormier is the enforcement manager of the Fédération culturelle de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard. 

Here's a implicit database of P.E.I.'s 2025 East Coast Music Award winners:

• Album of the year: Vishtèn Connexions — Expansion.
• Folk merchandise of the year: Vishtèn Connexions — Kouma.
• Fusion merchandise of the year: Vishtèn Connexions — Kouma.
• Pop merchandise of the year: Noah Malcolm — January.
• Stompin' Tom Award: Ghislaine Cormier.