{"id":12518,"date":"2012-09-25T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=12518"},"modified":"2012-09-25T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:47:58","slug":"queen-of-canadian-music-feist-wins-polaris-award-for-album-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-09\/queen-of-canadian-music-feist-wins-polaris-award-for-album-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated:  Watch Interview With Queen of Canadian Music&#8211;Feist Wins Polaris Award for Album &#8220;Metals&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13a110d8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-12519\" title=\"13a110d8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13a110d8-598x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13a110d8-598x600.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13a110d8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13a110d8-398x400.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13a110d8.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night <strong>Feist&#8217;s Metals<\/strong> album won the annual Polaris Award given to the best album by a Canadian artist (a major laurel given the caliber of music coming out of Montreal, Ontario and other environs).\u00a0 While she was up against worthy opponents such as <strong>Kathleen Edwards (Voyageur), Japandroids (Celebration Rock), Handsome Furs (Sound Kapital)<\/strong> and <strong>Cold Specks (I Predict a Graceful Expulsion)<\/strong>, Metals is a quantum leap above all the other candidates&#8217; offerings, and above most of its worldly competition.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; Feist, we highly recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-09\/a-must-see-feist-performs-intimate-concert-in-paris-for-la-blogotheque\/\"><strong>you watch<\/strong><\/a> some of her<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-09\/watch-feists-from-the-basement-episode-on-crackle\/\"> recent performances<\/a> <\/strong>and delve deeper into the <strong>Queen of Canadian Music&#8217;s<\/strong> outstanding oeuvre.<\/p>\n<p>Update:\u00a0 Watch\/listen to CBC&#8217;s interview with Leslie Feist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Feist on winning the 2012 Polaris Prize in Studio Q\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RRAdsKbtOhs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Feist&#8217;s Metals album won the annual Polaris Award given to the best album by a Canadian artist (a major laurel given the caliber of music coming out of Montreal, Ontario and other environs).\u00a0 While she was up against worthy opponents such as Kathleen Edwards (Voyageur), Japandroids (Celebration Rock), Handsome Furs (Sound Kapital) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}