CCMA awards show brings music fans, artists, industry to Hamilton for all things country

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The annual Canadian Country Music Association awards are being hosted at Hamilton's First Ontario Centre Saturday night. The star-studded event brings together Canadian country music stars and up-and-comers.

With Hamilton hosting the awards on Saturday night, the city has country music fever.

"She can stop a crowd just with the first note and we are incredibly proud of her," Jo-Hannah's mother Samantha told CBC Hamilton.Saturday will be Jo-Hannah Atchison's first 'big concert,' her mother Samantha said. The family came from Brantford, Ont., for the awards. The event was tied to Spotify's EQUAL Global Music Program, which is "designed to address the gender disparity in the music industry."Walker is originally from Prince Edward Island but lived in Hamilton for six years. Her music has a unique touch of the East Coast — she's included the bagpipes, an instrument she played at the Antigonish Highland Games in Nova Scotia for years.

 

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