It has been a bit of a “long haul,” but local folk/ roots musician John Wort Hannam won two of the three Canadian Folk Music Awards he was nominated for, April 2, for his most recent album “Long Haul.”
And they couldn’t have come at a better time, when Hannam has been going a few rounds with writer’s block.
He went to write at the Banff centre Jan. 7-21 to write some new songs but wasn’t able to come up with anything.

“ I went to the Banff Centre to write, but it was pointless. I was over thinking things, he said.
Hannam took home awards for solo artist of the year and contemporary folk album of the year, but lost the English songwriter of the year to Abigail Lapell.
“She deserved to win,” Hannam said, adding he didn’t expect to win the awards he did.
“I won one before in 2010, I think for “Queen’s Hotel’ and I’ve been nominated a bunch of times,” Hannam continued.
“I never expected to win, but it is nice to get the recognition. I’m grateful for it,” he said.
“This is the album I recorded all online with Steve Dawson producing. It was in Pat Ackerman’s studio and we had players from Toronto, Vancouver and Nashville,” he said.