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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 ).
[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
Events
Albums released
Awards
28 December, the 1st
RPM Awards are announced.
[2]
Festivals
Magazines and publications
24 February –
RPM publishes first issue.
[4]
Music groups
Bands formed
Bands disbanded
Organisations
Record labels
Singles released
Songs
Venues
Other
10 April –
Glenn Gould retires from public performance in Los Angeles.
[8]
Deaths
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
References
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
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