Nova Scotia Acts Clean Up at ECMAs

Atlantic Canada's finest converged on Charlottetown for a weekend of partying, prizes, and a ton of great music.

Nova Scotians dominated Sunday night's East Coast Music Awards, with acts like The Trews, The Stanfields, Wintersleep, and Ghettosocks picking up prizes at the always-entertaining gala. Twenty of the 28 statues handed out in Charlottetown over the weekend went to artists from Nova Scotia, with The Trews' tribute to fallen soldiers, Highway of Heroes, claiming the prize for viewers' choice video. Newfoundland's Once took home the group recording of the year, while classic-rock radio mainstays (and one of P.E.I.'s biggest cultural exports after Lucy Maud Montgomery) Haywire were bestowed the evening's lifetime achievement award. The event's organizers also announced that next year's edition of the awards will be staged in Moncton, N.B.