Maria Dunn has just been nominated for Solo Artist of the Year – 2009 Canadian Folk Music Awards for her CD The Peddler. Check out all the nominees at: www.canadianfolkmusicawards.ca.

Thanks to everyone involved in helping Maria record The Peddler, especially producer Shannon Johnson, musicians and collaborators on song arrangements, The McDades (Shannon Johnson, Solon McDade, Jeremiah McDade and Simon Marion), singer Dawn Anderson, recording engineers: Colin Lay, Gerald Woolsey, Barry Allen (Homestead Recorders, Edmonton), Daniel Cinelli (Planet Studios, Montreal), Joao Carvalho (Toronto) and designer Jeff Sylvester (Pilot Design, Edmonton).
Many thanks to FACTOR and Alberta Foundation for the Arts for funding support for this recording project.