The 26th edition of the Saskatchewan Country Music Association Awards will be remembered as the year of Jessica Moskaluke.
Following-up on a 2014 CCMA Female Artist of the Year Award, the Langenburg product walked away with the Fan’s Choice Entertainer of the Year, People’s Choice and Female Vocalist of the Year awards Sunday evening at the Gallagher Centre in Yorkton.
The Entertainer of the year Award was special for Moskaluke.
“This is incredible. This is one award I always wanted to just be nominated for,” she said.
It was also a chance to say thank you to Doug Riley, Moskaluke’s vocal coach.
“Thank you so much for encouraging me right from day one,” she said.
Moskaluke also captured Video of the Year for “Used,” Album of the Year for Light Up the Night and Single of the Year for “Cheap Wine and Cigarettes.”
In accepting the Single of the Year Moskaluke said music is only made if there are fans to listen.
“I could not have released the song without you.”
The string of awards and Moskaluke’s national success have had her on a near constant musical high.
“The past couple of years have been the wildest ride I could ever have imagined,” she told the awards audience.
But Moskaluke said her roots are still here in Saskatchewan.
“I’m so incredibly proud of where I came from,” she said, adding Yorkton is practically like being in Langenburg. “… It’s so close to home. It feels like a hometown show.”
Moskaluke said it is always great to come back to Saskatchewan and Langenburg.
“I love coming home, seeing my family, my dog, my house,” she said. “There’s no place like home.”
When accepting the Video of the Year Award, Moskaluke said it was great to be selected at home.
“Thank you for recognizing me in my home province,” she said.
Moskaluke said the SCMAs are like being with family.
“I really grew up with all these people,” she said.
In other awards, GX94 took the Fan’s Choice Radio Station of the Year (secondary market), and Danny Ismond with GX94 was On Air Personality Award winner (secondary market), and see related stories Page A3.
Other local finalists were; Yorkton’s Jackie Guy was a finalist for the Rising Star Award, Samara Yung was up for Video of the Year for ‘Stone’, Steve Gibson was a finalist for All Star Band (guitar), Ronda Yung for Manager of the Year, Freedom Sound in Yorkton for Recording Studio of the Year.
