2025 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize nominee Strawberry
PEI band nominated for their 1998 album
Prince Edward Island born band Strawberry has just been nominated for the 2025 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize for their 1998 album Brokeheart Audio.
Winners and nominees for the Heritage Prize, the companion award to the Polaris Music Album Prize, are Canadian albums of artistic distinction, without regard to sales, genre or affiliation. It is to honour meritorious Canadian albums that predate when Polaris began in 2006.
Two of this year’s 12 nominated albums will receive the Heritage Prize designation. One album will be chosen by public vote campaign, which opened August 5, and a second will be determined by a Heritage Prize jury made up of music media and music historians.
The 2025 Polaris Heritage Prize-nominated albums are:
Choclair – Ice Cold
The Constantines – The Constantines
Franck Dervieux – Dimension M
Do Make Say Think – Goodbye Enemy Airship, The Landlord Is Dead
Doughboys – Crush
Dubmatique – La force de comprendre
Mort Garson – Mother Earth’s Plantasia
The Organ – Grab That Gun
Propagandhi – Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes
Rascalz – Cash Crop
Jane Siberry – The Speckless Sky
Strawberry – Brokeheart Audio
Public voting closes on August 21 at 8 pm. Visit polarismusicprize.ca/heritage-prize/ or polarismusicprize.ca/fr/prix-du-patrimoine/ to vote. The winning albums will be revealed at the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony on September 16.