Hey Rosetta! Win Three ECMAs

St. John's, Nfld. alternative pop-rock act Hey Rosetta! were honoured in their home province this weekend, when they travelled west to Corner Brook to pick up three East Coast Music Awards.

The group's Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Heart And On Through Your Blood) was named best group, alternative and overall recording, and the sextet showed off their live chops when they performed "New Goodbye" at Corner Brook's Pepsi Centre on Sunday night.

Jill Barber's Chances was honoured as the top jazz album and female solo recording. She sang "Oh My My" on the CBC-televised show hosted by Damhnait Doyle and Jian Ghomeshi. Matt Anderson's Something In Between was honoured in the blues and male solo recording categories.

Gordie Sampson took the single and songwriting prizes for "We Are Young And So Is The Night," but his mom accepted them on his behalf. Sampson and Matt Mays & El Torpedo were the leading nominees with five nods each. Mays & El Torpedo's Terminal Romance was voted best rock recording.

The Joel Plaskett Emergency, who won six awards last year but missed the entertainer of the year title, took that one this time.

Here are the 2009 East Coast Music Award winners:

Entertainer: Joel Plaskett Emergency

Recording: Hey Rosetta! — Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Heart And On Through Your Blood)

Group Recording: Hey Rosetta! — Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Heart And On Through Your Blood)

Female Solo Recording: Jill Barber — Chances

Male Solo Recording: Matt Andersen — Something In Between

Rising Star Recording: The Tom Fun Orchestra — You Will Land with A Thud

Single: Gordie Sampson — "We Are Young And So Is The Night"

Songwriter: Gordie Sampson (with J. Smith & JT Harding) for "We Are Young And So Is The Night" (performed by Gordie Sampson)

DVD: Squid — Squid: The Evolution (directed by Ryan Fraser, Mark Jamieson, Daniel St. Pierre and Ian MacMillan)

Video: Wintersleep — "Weighty Ghost" (directed by Sean Wainsteim)

Alternative Recording: Hey Rosetta! — Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Heart And On Through Your Blood)

Bluegrass Recording: The Grass Mountain Hobos — The Grass Mountain Hobos

Blues Recording: Matt Andersen — Something In Between

Children's Recording: Rik Barron — Shine

Classical Recording: Jasper Wood — A Child's Cry From Izieu Oskar Morawetz Complete Works For Violin And Piano

Country Recording: Tara Oram — Chasing The Sun

Folk Recording: David Myles — On The Line

Instrumental Recording: Duane Andrews — Raindrops

Jazz Recording: Jill Barber — Chances

Loud Recording: Iron Giant — Creator Of Scars

Pop Recording: Christina Martin — Two Hearts

Rock Recording: Matt Mays & El Torpedo — Terminal Romance

Roots/Traditional Solo Recording: Brenda Stubbert — Endless Memories

Roots/Traditional Group Recording: Troy MacGillivray & Shane Cook — When Here Meets There

World Recording: Ryan Leblanc — Against The Grain

Aboriginal Recording: The Flummies — This Is The Life For Me

Francophone Recording: Ronald Bourgeois — J'ai Trouve Dans Une Chanson

Gospel Recording: The Burkes — The Reason We Sing

Rap/Hip-Hop Single Track Recording: Hotbox featuring Spesh K & Y-Rush — "The Main Event"

Fan Choice Award: Classified

Lifetime Achievement Award: Dick Nolan