If you're on Twitter you know that at the end of each week people put together "Follow Friday" lists of their favourite people they're following and share them with everybody. I'm flipping the script a little bit on this with this feature on the blog where every Friday I feature somebody who includes our main Twitter account, @VIAwesome, in their #FF, in order to shine a little light back on them and what they do.
Today's featured tweeter is the Polaris Music Prize account, headed up by none other than Polaris' executive director, Steve Jordan. We've done many a blog post about this annual Canadian music prize in the past but in case you're unaware then here's a bit about how it works in their own words...
"The Polaris Music Prize is a juried award determined by journalists, broadcasters, bloggers and programmers from across Canada. Jury members are selected annually by the Polaris Board of Directors. The Polaris Jury consists of over 200 members from local and national media who display a wide breadth and depth of knowledge of Canadian music and passion for discovering new albums.
All jury members submit a ballot indicating their Top 5 albums of the year; the results form the Polaris Prize Long List and, after a second round of voting, the Polaris Prize Short List. An 11-member Grand Jury is selected each year to convene at the Polaris Awards gala, where they determine the Polaris Prize Winner. To ensure an impartial outcome, no one with direct financial relationships with artists is eligible to become a jury member. The organization itself is a registered, not-for-profit corporation."
I'm happy to report that I've been selected as a Polaris jury member for 2011 and have already begun the process of engaging with the other jurors about our potential picks! It's going to be an amazing few months of listening and talking and I am incredibly honoured and thrilled to be a part of it!
Have a look at all of our previous #FollowFriday posts HERE.
