FOG BLOG ENTERTAINMENT LOG: JUNO AWARDS TOMORROW NIGHT, LEELA GILDAY WINS EARLY!

N.W.T. artist Leela Gilday wins Juno for 'most vulnerable' album yet........Gilday won award for Indigenous artist or group of the year, 1 of 37 given out during Friday's opening gala........Leela Gilday won her second Juno Award on Friday, after winning in 2007 for her second album, Sedzé. (Dave Brosha Photography)

A Dene musician from the Northwest Territories says her Juno award win Friday night comes amid a "difficult year" and that it's "really beautiful" to be recognized by her peers. Leela Gilday was named winner in the Indigenous artist or group of the year category during the opening night gala — which featured 37 of the 43 Juno award presentations. "I feel very grateful and very honoured," she told CBC News on Saturday. "It means the music I'm making, even at this point in my career, five albums in, is still speaking to people and resonating with people. The stories I'm telling them are still impacting people." Asked how she writes music that reaches others, Gilday said she's not necessarily thinking about what will have an impact — but what is true to her.