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    Big Country Awards

    Big Country Awards. They were established in 1975 by Walt Grealis and Stan Klees of RPM magazine in conjunction with the Canadian Academy for Country Music Advancement (later ACME, see CCMA). Held annually 1975-81, they were supplanted in 1982 by the CCMA Awards but revived in 1985 by RPM.

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    Billy Bishop Goes to War

    Billy Bishop Goes to War is a musical written by John MacLachlan Gray with Eric Peterson about the exploits of First World War flying ace William Avery "Billy" Bishop. Since its premiere in 1978, the musical has been staged across Canada and in the United States and Europe. It remains one of the most popular Canadian musicals.

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    Birch-Bark Biting

    Birch-bark biting is the art of dentally perforating designs on intricately folded sheets of paper-thin bark. Traditionally, the technique is known to have been practised by Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Cree and other Algonquian peoples who used birchbark extensively in fabricating domestic containers, architectural coverings, canoes and pictographic scrolls. Indigenous artists have kept the practice alive in spite of colonial efforts to culturally assimilate Indigenous peoples into Canadian society. (See also History of Indigenous Art in Canada and Contemporary Indigenous Art in Canada.)

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    Birchbark Etching

    Birchbark etching is a traditional cultural practice used by some Indigenous peoples in Canada, including the Dene, Anishinaabe and nations in the Wabanaki Confederacy (see also Mi’kmaq; Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet); Abenaki). Some functional vessels such as baskets and bowls were adorned with cultural iconography and floral motifs, though not all. During the 19th century, narrative-driven storytelling began to appear on the surface of functional birchbark objects. Some of these objects were sold as souvenirs to European settlers or visitors. The practice was in decline for much of the 20th century. However, the sustained efforts of artists and makers led to its reestablishment around the turn of the 21st century. Since then, birchbark etching has undergone a series of profound changes. It now appears in contemporary fashion, jewellery design, cosplay, fine art and more. The practice is also prevalent among major Indigenous art markets, fairs and competitions. Today, birchbark etching has become a strong example of Indigenous cultural renewal in Canada.

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    Bishop Strachan School Chapel Choir

    Bishop Strachan School Chapel Choir Toronto girls' school choir known in 1990 as The Choir of the Bishop Strachan School. Variable in size, it numbered 55 members in 1990. A school choir existed at the time of World War I under J.W.

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    Black Canadian Theatre

    With the emergence of the Black Theatre Workshop in the late 1960s, Black theatre began to flourish across Canada, providing dynamic venues for the work of Black playwrights, directors, and actors.

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    African Music in Canada

    The 2006 census recorded more than 250,000 persons of African origin in Canada.

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    Black Robe

    This film about the clash of cultures is set in New France, circa 1634.

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    Black Theatre Workshop

    The TTA set up a dramatic committee that organized public readings of plays by Earl Lovelace, Errol John and Derek Walcott (Nobel laureate 1993).

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    Blackie and the Rodeo Kings

    Blackie & The Rodeo Kings was initially conceived in 1996 as a tribute act to singer-songwriter Willie P. Bennett. By renewing interest in Bennett and other Canadian songwriters, Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing and Tom Wilson believed they would also gain a wider audience for their solo careers.

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    Blue Rodeo

    Blue Rodeo, a rock group, was formed in 1984 by high school friends and songwriters Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor. After playing as the high-energy pop group the HiFi's and the New York-based Fly to France, Cuddy and Keelor returned to Toronto and recruited self-taught jazz pianist Bobby Wiseman, bass guitarist Bazil Donovan, and drummer Cleave Anderson. Beginning in clubs along their hometown's Queen Street, Blue Rodeo delivered a melodic blend of folk, rock and country marked by Beatle-esque harmonies.

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    Blue Rodeo

    Its affinity for the "roots music" styles of US pop - country, rockabilly, and folk-rock, as well as rock 'n' roll - initially drew Blue Rodeo comparisons to The Band and gave it both a populist and critical appeal.

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  • Macleans

    Blue Rodeo (Profile)

    Jim Cuddy hears the music. I see the grotty stairwell. Standing in the open doorway amid the stacks of cardboard boxes and equipment cases, he slaps his palms together and cocks his head for the echo that stretches thin above us.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on July 15, 2002

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    Blues

    African-American folk and pop music with a vocal and instrumental tradition; also a song form. Though by origin and nature a folk music, the blues enjoyed wider popularity with the advent of commercial recording.

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    BMG Music Canada Inc / Musique BMG du Canada Inc.

    BMG Music Canada Inc / Musique BMG du Canada Inc. (successively, 1929-86, RCA Victor Co, Ltd, RCA Inc, RCA Limited/Limitée). Record company which began as the Victor Talking Machine Co in Camden, NJ, in 1901.

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