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Montreal band Arcade Fire came away with top prize at last night's Grammy awards show awarded Top Album of the Year for "Suburbs". The band, with co-founder (McGill grad) Win Butler (BA'04), was nominated in three categories.

After the event Win introduced his group - which also features his wife, Regine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Jeremy Gara, Sarah Neufeld, Tim Kingsbury and Marika Anthony-Shaw - to the press as "The graduating class of Montreal, Canada."

Other McGill Grammy nominees included Prof. Matt Haimovitz and Uccello, Best Classical Crossover Album – Meeting of the Spirits; Darcy Argue (BMus'97) with Secret Society (incl. trombonist Mike Fahie (BMus'98), nominated for Best Large Jazz Ensemble (Infernal Machines). (Neither won in their respective category.)