Queen’s University Alumni Nominated for Indy Music Award

Published on: 2014/04/17 - in Featured News

Splash’N Boots – the Queen’s University grads who were nominated for Children’s Album of the Year at the 2014 JUNO Awards – continue their success with yet another prestigious award nomination.

The duo – who began their career in children’s entertainment as a class project while students at Queen’s – have been nominated for Children’s Group of the Year at the Independent Music Awards, the category they have previously been nominated for (and won) twice before.

Award winners will be announced on May 10th, 2014 at Toronto’s Kool Haus and determined by public voting which is now open at indies.ca/voting .

“We are so excited to be nominated for Children’s Group of the Year for a third time,” says Taes (the group’s ‘Boots’). “We have been independent artists from the beginning of our career so it’s such an honour to be recognized by the Independent Music Awards!”

The Splash’N Boots JUNO nominated album “Coconuts Don’t Fall Far From the Tree” hit number one on Bandcamp in its first week of release, and they have filmed a new children’s television show pilot featuring special guest, Fred Penner.

The group – whose infectious and hilarious music videos air nationally on Treehouse TV – recently wrapped filming the six episode TV pilot with Backroad Productions.

Fred Penner, who starred in the iconic CBC hit show “Fred Penner’s Place” in the 80’s and 90’s, guest starred in one of the episodes as their helpful neighbour “Fred”. The episodes will be shopped to a variety of networks in 2014 and the group hopes Penner will have a recurring role in future episodes.

To vote for Splash’N Boots: visit indies.ca/voting , enter your name & email address, then scroll down and click on “CHILDREN’S ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR”.  Choose ‘Select Splash’N Boots’ and then click on the green ‘submit your vote’ button at the bottom.

For more information about Splash’N Boots, check out their website at www.splashnboots.com or visit their Facebook fan page.

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Image source: Splash’N Boots Facebook page