User:Argolin/Years in Canadian music

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Births

 * 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).
 * 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

Albums

 * Lorne Greene, The Man

Awards

 * 28 December, the 1st RPM Awards are announced.

Festivals

 * Mariposa Folk Festival was held at the Maple Leaf Stadium
 * Miramichi Folksong Festival
 * Montreal Festivals

Magazines and publications

 * 24 February - RPM publishes first issue.

Music groups

 * Bands formed


 * 3's a Crowd (band)
 * Chai Folk Ensemble is formed in Winnipeg.
 * Jack London & The Sparrows
 * The Mynah Birds


 * Bands disbanded


 * CBC Symphony Orchestra
 * The Crew-Cuts

Organisations

 * Alberta Music Festival Association is established to coordinate local music competition.

Singles

 * "My Baby's Comin' Home" by Paul Anka

Songs

 * 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

 * The Matador Club, a country-music venue, opens in Toronto.

Other

 * 10 April - Glenn Gould retires from public performance in Los Angeles.

Deaths

 * 7 January - Colin McPhee, composer and musicologist.
 * 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.