CALGARY -- Letterman, Conan and Saturday Night Live don't compare to Kermit, Ernie and Big Bird. So says Feist.
Sure, Feist has been a media darling on both sides of the border the past year. She has been featured in Rolling Stone, Vogue and Vanity Fair -- the latter in a folk-artist spread shot by Annie Leibovitz, no less -- and she has performed on Saturday Night Live, The Today Show and on the late-night shows of Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien and David Letterman.
But it was her recently taped appearance on the children's TV show Sesame Street that prompted her on Saturday (during opening-night Juno ceremonies) to call it "the best day of my life. I'm sorry, Junos, but the Muppets trump everything!"
The sting of losing four chances at Grammy Awards earlier this year was all but erased last night, as Feist took home a leading five Juno Awards in the city where she spent her formative years.
Her mother, she told reporters, even threw her a party on Friday night before she won any award.
"I'm feeling overwhelmed -- it's a little insane," said Feist during CTV's red-carpet special before the Junos. "I had a 22-minute massage today. That counts for something."
Next up for Feist is a U.S. theatre tour -- with Toronto alt-folk-pop singer-songwriter Hayden opening up -- that begins Thursday in Detroit.
"(Calgary's) a pit stop," Feist said last night on the red carpet. "The tour keeps going on forever. (But) no, it's amazing -- all roads lead to Calgary."
Her only scheduled Canadian date so far is May 13 at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts in Toronto, with the Great Lake Swimmers opening.
