Anne Murray to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 2025 Junos
Artists Elisapie, Maestro Fresh Wes, Jazzy B, bbno$, more have also been added to list of performers
The most awarded artist in Juno history will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 54th Juno Awards on March 30.
Anne Murray will be the first artist to receive the honour, which is being given out for the first time since the Juno Awards' namesake, Pierre Juneau, received it in 1989.
The singer from Springhill, N.S., has received 25 Junos, four Grammys, three American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, and three Canadian Country Music Association Awards over her storied career, which also includes a companion of the Order of Canada, and a limited-edition stamp from Canada Post. She has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame.
She last appeared at the Juno Awards in 2024, where she welcomed everyone to the host city of Halifax.
"Some of you might be too young to know much about me," Murray joked at the time, "but I attended the very first Juno Award celebrations way back when, even before Nelly [Furtado] and many of you were born."
Final performers announced for 2025 Junos broadcast
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences also shared the final slate of performers for the 2025 Juno Awards. Host Michael Bublé will be joined onstage by Elisapie, Jonita Gandhi, Maestro Fresh Wes and Roxane Bruneau, while B.C. artists bbno$, Peach Pit, Chani Nattan, Inderpal Moga, Jazzy B and GMINXR will also perform on the broadcast stage.
The Junos previously announced Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Josh Ross, Nemahsis, Aqyila and Tia Wood as performers.
Canadian Hall of Fame inductees Sum 41 will also perform, and they will be inducted by Good Charlotte's Joel and Benji Madden. Five-time Juno Award winner Jessie Reyez will present Boi1da with his International Achievement Award. Saint-Pierre's Allan Hawco and North of North's Anna Lambe will also present awards on March 30.
Michael Bublé will host the 2025 Juno Awards on Sunday, March 30, at 8 p.m ET. Tune in on CBC-TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music and CBC Listen, and stream globally on cbcmusic.ca/junos.
