Avril Lavigne and Measha Brueggergosman Set to Perform on The 2008 JUNO Awards Programming Highlights / CTV Posted by Tripster on Feb 04, 2008 - 09:47 AM Canada's pop princess meets opera sensation. On the eve of tomorrow's JUNO Award Nominees Press Conference, CTV and the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced today that multiple JUNO Award-winner Avril Lavigne and opera superstar Measha Brueggergosman are the latest artists slated to perform on The 2008 JUNO Awards broadcast on CTV, Sunday, April 6 from Calgary's Pengrowth Saddledome. These newest additions to the performance lineup for The 2008 JUNO Awards broadcast come just one day before CARAS and CTV name this year's nominees vying for Canada's Music Awards, along with a special announcement of the 2008 Canadian Music Hall of Fame recipient and the unveiling of the Host for The 2008 JUNO Awards broadcast on CTV. A portion of the media conference, to be held at The Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto on Tuesday, February 5, will be broadcast live on Canada AM on CTV and CTV Newsnet, on the CTV Broadband Network at CTV.ca and in a 30-minute special on Star! beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Avril Lavigne rocketed straight to superstardom, at just 17 years old, when she released her debut album, Let Go, in 2002. No.1 hit singles "Complicated," "Sk8ter Boi" and "I'm With You" helped the album sell more than 16 million copies worldwide, garnering eight Grammy nominations and four JUNO Awards (including Album of the Year and New Artist of the Year). Her follow up, Under My Skin (2004), entered U.S., Canadian, and U.K. charts at No. 1, and collected three more JUNO Awards along the way. Avril's most recent album, The Best Damn Thing, is considered her best yet. She was involved in every aspect of the album's production from writing to recording. The lead single, "Girlfriend," instantly became an international anthem spawning versions in Italian, Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese, to name a few. Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman has emerged as one of the most magnificent performers and vibrant personalities of the day. In addition to a highly acclaimed sold-out recital at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, she has appeared in solo recitals at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Edinburgh and Verbier festivals, as well as in concert performances with leading orchestras across North America and Europe. On the opera stage, Brueggergosman has bowed in Dialogues des Carmélites (Vancouver Opera), Dead Man Walking and Turandot (Cincinnati Opera), and in Aeneas in Karthago (Staatsoper Stuttgart). Her extraordinary versatility, intuitive musicality, and radiant star quality have yielded an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Her first recording on the label, Surprise, was released to critical acclaim in Autumn 2007. Visit her website at www.measha.com [1]. Broadcast in High Definition and 5.1 Surround Sound, The 2008 JUNO Awards, Canada's Music Awards, will air on CTV on Sunday, April 6 from the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. It is the seventh year in a row that The JUNO Awards will air on CTV, the official broadcast partner of the JUNO Awards. Since CTV joined forces with CARAS in 2002, The JUNO Awards have travelled across Canada, bringing a live, electrified stadium show to million of Canadians. Since going live from St. John's in 2002, CTV has broadcast The JUNO Awards from Ottawa (2003), Edmonton (2004), Winnipeg (2005), Halifax (2006) and Saskatoon (2007). Previous hosts of The JUNO Awards on CTV include Nelly Furtado (2007), Pamela Anderson (2006), Brent Butt (2005), Alanis Morissette (2004), Shania Twain (2003) and Barenaked Ladies (2002). This article is from CHANNEL CANADA   http://www.channelcanada.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.channelcanada.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2099 Links in this article   [1] http://www.measha.com