1964 in Canadian music

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

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

Albums released

Lorne Greene, The Man

Awards

28 December, the 1st RPM Awards are announced.^[2]

Festivals

Mariposa Folk Festival was held at the Maple Leaf Stadium^[3]
Miramichi Folksong Festival
Montreal Festivals

Magazines and publications

24 February - RPM publishes first issue.^[4]

Music groups

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Organisations

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

Record labels

Singles released

"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.^[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]

References

Citations

^ Rayner, Ben (26 January 2012). "Andrew MacNaughtan, photographer, dies on Rush assignment". Toronto Star. Toronto: Torstar Corporation. www.thestar.com. OCLC 679765547. Retrieved 26 January 2012. {{cite news}}: External link in |agency= (help)
^ Lounsbury, Doug. "The RPM Legacy". avtrust.ca. Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
^ "Mariposa folk festival". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |deadurl= and |month= (help); External link in |agency= (help)
^ 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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Nick Warburton (June 2005). "RICK JAMES AND THE MYNAH BIRDS". earcandymag.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
^ Ford, Clifford; Wardrop, Patricia. "CBC Symphony Orchestra". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |deadurl= (help); External link in |agency= (help)
^ "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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Bazzana (2003, p. 229)
^ Keillor, Elaine. "Opera Canada". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 3 February 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |deadurl= and |month= (help); External link in |agency= (help)
^ 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. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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[star.com_Andrew_MacNaughtan-1] Rayner, Ben (26 January 2012). "Andrew MacNaughtan, photographer, dies on Rush assignment". Toronto Star. Toronto: Torstar Corporation. www.thestar.com. OCLC 679765547. Retrieved 26 January 2012. {{cite news}}: External link in |agency= (help)

[avtrust.ca_RPM_Awards-2] Lounsbury, Doug. "The RPM Legacy". avtrust.ca. Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. Retrieved 3 February 2012.

[canadianencyclopedia.com_Mariposa_folk_festival-3] "Mariposa folk festival". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |deadurl= and |month= (help); External link in |agency= (help)

[avtrust.ca_1st_Issue-4] 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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[earcandymag.com-5] Nick Warburton (June 2005). "RICK JAMES AND THE MYNAH BIRDS". earcandymag.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012.

[canadianencyclopedia.com_CBC_Symphony_Orchestra-6] Ford, Clifford; Wardrop, Patricia. "CBC Symphony Orchestra". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |deadurl= (help); External link in |agency= (help)

[jam.canoe.ca_Crew_Cuts-7] "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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[8] Bazzana (2003, p. 229)

[canadianencyclopedia.com_Colin_McPhee-9] Keillor, Elaine. "Opera Canada". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 3 February 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |deadurl= and |month= (help); External link in |agency= (help)

[collectionscanada.gc.ca_Pierre-Aurèle_Asselin-10] 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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Songs

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Deaths

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References