Births
edit- 18 January – Jim Matt, country music singer.
- 18 January – Patrick Esposito Di Napoli, member of Les Colocs (d.1994).
- 25 January – Andrew MacNaughtan, photographer and music video director (d.2012).[1]
- 30 January – Patricia Conroy, country music singer.
- 1 February – Dwayne Goettel, former member of Skinny Puppy (d.1995).
- 6 February – Gordon Downie, lead singer and lyricist for The Tragically Hip.
- 8 March – Denise Murray, country music singer.
- 8 June – Mark Howard, audio engineer.
- 17 August – Colin James, Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter, and guitarist.
- 12 September – Greg McConnell, indie rocker and member of Absolute Whores (d.1999).
- 16 November – Diana Krall, Grammy and Juno Awards winning jazz musician.
- 29 November – Jesse Cook, Juno Award-winning guitarist.
- 30 November – Edwin Orion Brownell, neo-classical composer and concert pianist.
- 7 December – Kyp Harness, folk singer and social activist.
- Full date unknown
- Charest, Benoît, guitarist and film score composer.
- Danna, Jeff, film score composer
- Lee, Brent, composer and professor of Music Composition at the University of Windsor.
- Ichkhanian, Levon, jazz composer and guitarist
Events
editAlbums released
editAwards
editFestivals
edit- Mariposa Folk Festival was held at the Maple Leaf Stadium[3]
- Miramichi Folksong Festival
- Montreal Festivals
Magazines and publications
editMusic groups
edit- Bands formed
- Bands disbanded
Organisations
edit- Alberta Music Festival Association is established to coordinate local music competition.
Record labels
editSingles released
edit- "My Baby's Comin' Home" by Paul Anka
Songs
edit- Early Morning Rain, composed and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot.
- Mon Pays ("My Homeland") composed by Gilles Vigneault.
- Universal Soldier (song), written and recorded Buffy Sainte-Marie.
- You Were on My Mind, written by Sylvia Tyson.
Venues
edit- The Matador Club, a country-music venue, opens in Toronto.
Other
edit- 10 April – Glenn Gould retires from public performance in Los Angeles.[8]
Deaths
edit- 7 January – Colin McPhee, composer and musicologist.[9]
- 9 September – Charles O'Neill, bandmaster, composer, organist, cornetist, and music educator.
- 24 November – Georges-Émile Tanguay, composer, organist, pianist, and music educator.
- 27 December – Pierre-Aurèle Asselin, tenor singer, brother to Marie-Anne Asselin.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- Citations
- ^ Rayner, Ben (26 January 2012). "Andrew MacNaughtan, photographer, dies on Rush assignment". Toronto Star. Toronto: Torstar Corporation. OCLC 679765547. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ Lounsbury, Doug. "The RPM Legacy". avtrust.ca. Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ^ "Mariposa folk festival". Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Historica Canada. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ Lounsbury, Doug. "About RPM Magazine". avtrust.ca. Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. Archived from the original on 22 August 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ^ Nick Warburton (June 2005). "RICK JAMES AND THE MYNAH BIRDS". earcandymag.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ Ford, Clifford; Wardrop, Patricia. "CBC Symphony Orchestra". Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Historica Canada. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ "Artist: Crew Cuts Biography". jam.canoe.ca. Jam!. 30 November 2004. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
with notes from Richard Patterson, Bart Shevory, John B. Young and Joe Matthews.
- ^ Bazzana (2003, p. 229)
- ^ Gilles Potvin (15 December 2013). "Opera Canada". Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. Historica Canada. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ Thérien, Robert, "Biographies » Pierre-Aurèle Asselin, tenor (1881–1964)", collectionscanada.gc.ca, Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada, retrieved 3 February 2012
- Bibliography
- Bazzana, Kevin (2003). Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-1101-6. OCLC 52286240.