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BTO

BTO, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, rock band including Robin Bachman, Randy Bachman, Blair Thornton and Fred Turner. They were internationally popular during the mid-1970s. BTO's third album Not Fragile, spawned the million-selling single "You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet.
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Buddy MacMaster

Hugh Allan (Buddy) MacMaster, OC, ONS, fiddler (born 18 October 1924 in Timmins, ON; died 20 August 2014 in Judique, NS). Known as "King of the Jigs," Buddy MacMaster was considered a major force in the survival of Cape Breton music and dance.
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Burton Cummings

Burton Lorne Cummings, OC, OM, singer, songwriter, musician (born 31 December 1947 in Winnipeg, MB). A dynamic and charismatic vocalist, Burton Cummings is one of the most celebrated artists in Canadian music. At age 18, he became keyboardist and lead singer of Canada’s first rock superstars, The Guess Who. He wrote with guitarist Randy Bachman such classic songs as “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “No Time,” “No Sugar Tonight” and “American Woman.” The latter was the first song by a Canadian band to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. As a solo artist, Cummings had several platinum-certified albums and a string of hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He has received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and is a member of the Prairie Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Canada’s Walk of Fame twice, both as a member of The Guess Who and as a solo artist.
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Calixa Lavallée

Callixte Lavallée, composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, administrator, soldier (born 28 December 1842 in Verchères, Canada East; died 21 January 1891 in Boston, Massachusetts). A pioneer in music both in Canada and the United States, Calixa Lavallée was considered one of the “national glories” of Quebec. He is best known for composing the music for “O Canada” and was twice president of the Académie de musique de Québec. Despite this vaunted stature, he spent much of his life outside Canada, served with the Union Army during the American Civil War and called for Canada to be annexed by the United States. The Prix de musique Calixa-Lavallée, awarded by the St-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal for outstanding contributions to the music of Quebec, is named in his honour.
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Calixa Lavallée and the Origins of "O Canada"

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Canadian Brass

The Canadian Brass quintet was formed in 1970 as the Canadian Brass Ensemble, consisting of Stuart Laughton and William Phillips, trumpets, Graeme Page, French horn, Eugene Watts, trombone, and Charles Daellenbach, tuba. In 1971 the group became Canadian Brass and Ronald Romm replaced Laughton.
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Canadian Brass

Canadian Brass. Quintet formed in 1970 as the Canadian Brass Ensemble. Hon D MUS (Hartwick College) 1993, hon D MUS (New England Conservatory of Music) 1993, hon D LITT (McMaster) 2000.
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Canadian Electroacoustic Community/Communauté électroacoustique canadienne

Canadian Electroacoustic Community/Communauté électroacoustique canadienne.The idea of an association bringing together the electroacoustic musicians of Canada was introduced during the electroacoustic Wired Society festival held in Toronto in 1986.
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Macleans

Canadian Rock Music Explodes

With his straggly, shoulder-length hair, torn blue jeans and red sneakers, Greig Nori doesnt look like the sort of man to be wined and dined in elegant restaurants by smooth-talking business executives.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 27, 1995
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Macleans

Canadian Women Dominate Grammys

This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 11, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
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CANO

CANO. Franco-Ontarian folk-pop collective, active 1975-85. The founding musicians were members of the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel Ontario (CANO), an agricultural and artistic commune established in Sudbury in 1970.
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Catherine MacLellan

Catherine Ruth MacLellan, singer, songwriter (born 23 April 1980 in Burlington, ON). Catherine MacLellan is a contemporary folk-roots singer-songwriter whose recordings have won multiple East Coast Music Awards, Canadian Folk Music Awards, Music PEI Awards and a Juno Award. She is the daughter of “Snowbird” composer Gene MacLellan.
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CBC Radio Competitions

National competitions whose aim has been to identify, encourage and present Canadian talent through the medium of CBC radio, and to provide opportunities for career development through cash awards, performance, broadcasting and recording.
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Céline Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC, OQ, singer, entrepreneur (born 30 March 1968 in Charlemagne, QC). Céline Dion has been a global pop superstar for more than 30 years. She is the most commercially successful Canadian singer of all time and one of the best-selling music artists ever. A Québécoise icon since she was a teenager, she is equally successful in French and English and has sold more than 220 million albums worldwide. Known as the “queen of power ballads,” she has won five Grammy Awards, 20 Juno Awards and more than 40 Félix Awards, in addition to a myriad of other honours. Named the Best Selling Canadian Recording Artist of the Century in 1999, she has been inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame, Canada’s Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada, an Officière of the Ordre national du Québec, a Compagne of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec and a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
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Chansonniers

A true chansonnier of the Parisian type, he combined song, comedy and political satire. Chansonniers Chansonniers, singer-songwriters of Québec active after WWII, particularly during the 1960s. Their songs served a common social ideal and shared a style characterized by simplicity and intimacy favouring poetic expression. The predecessors of this movement include La BOLDUC, often cited as Québec's first chansonnière, but Félix LECLERC and Raymond LÉVESQUE were in fact its true originators. Leclerc prepared the way...
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