In 2002, Gilday was awarded Best Female Artist, Best Folk Album, and Best Songwriter at the
Canadian Indigenous Music Awards for her first release,
Spirit World, Solid Wood. She was also named in
Maclean's
Top 50 Under 30 that same year. In 2003, she was nominated at the
Juno Awards for Best Music of Aboriginal Canada. Her second album,
Sedzé, was released in 2006 and won
Aboriginal Recording of the Year at the
2007 Juno Awards.
Up Here named Gilday Northerner of the Year in 2007. Her third album,
Calling All Warriors, was released in 2010. It won Aboriginal Recording of the Year at the
Western Canadian Music Awards. In 2011, Gilday won Aboriginal Female Entertainer of the Year at the
Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards. Her fourth record,
Heart of the People, was released in 2014 and was nominated for Aboriginal Album of the Year at the
2015 Juno Awards. Her fifth album,
North Star Calling, came out in 2019. Gilday won Indigenous Songwriter of the Year at the
Canadian Folk Music Awards, and the album received the Indigenous Music Album of the Year honour at the
2021 Junos. In 2021, Gilday and her brother Jay created the musical project
Sechile Sedare during the
COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, she participated with more than 50 other artists in the recording of a charity single for
Kids Help Phone's
Feel Out Loud campaign. The recording combines
Serena Ryder's song ''
What I Wouldn't Do'' with the bridge from Gilday's "North Star Calling". Outside of music, Gilday had a supporting role in the 2019
independent film Red Snow. ==Discography==