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2016 In Canadian Music
The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2016 in music in Canada. Events *April 3 – Juno Awards of 2016 *April 17 – Final concert by the influential folk-rock band Spirit of the West. *April – East Coast Music Awards *May 15 – Prism Prize presented. *May 24 – The Tragically Hip announce that lead singer Gord Downie has been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. *June 15 – Preliminary longlist for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize is announced. *July – SOCAN Songwriting Prize is presented. *July 14 – Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize is announced. *July 22 – The Tragically Hip play the first date of their Man Machine Poem Tour in Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia. *August 20 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts The Tragically Hip's concert at the K-Rock Centre in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, which may be the band's last-ever live concert due to Gord Downie's cancer diagnosis, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Radio One
CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial-free and offers local and national programming. It is available on AM and FM to 98 percent of Canadians and overseas over the Internet, and through mobile apps. CBC Radio One is simulcast across Canada on Bell Satellite TV satellite channels 956 and 953, and Shaw Direct satellite channel 870. A modified version of Radio One, with local content replaced by additional airings of national programming, is available on Sirius XM channel 169. It is downlinked to subscribers via SiriusXM Canada and its U.S.-based counterpart, Sirius XM Satellite Radio. In 2010, Radio One reached 4.3 million listeners each week. It was the largest radio network in Canada. History CBC Radio began in 1936, and is the oldest branch of the corporation. In 1949, the facilities and staff of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland were transferred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Andersen
Matt Andersen is a Canadian blues guitarist and singer-songwriter from Perth-Andover, New Brunswick. He is a Juno Award nominee. His musical career started in 2002 with the New Brunswick band Flat Top. Career In addition to headlining major festivals, clubs and theatres throughout North America, Europe and Australia, Andersen has shared the stage and toured with Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Gregg Allman, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Randy Bachman, Little Feat, April Wine, America, Loverboy, Jonny Lang, Serena Ryder, and Beth Hart. Andersen played in over 200 live performances in 2009, including his fourth UK tour. He won two 2009 East Coast Music Association (ECMA) Awards: Male Solo Artist of the year, Blues Recording of the year for "Something In Between" and recorded a new studio album (''Piggyback'') with harmonica player Mike Stevens. He performed at several of Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe shows across Canada, starting in 2009 and continuing into 2011. On 25 January 2010, Andersen w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amylie
Amylie Boisclair (born 1982) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec.Philippe Papineau"Amylie retourne à l’essentiel" ''Le Devoir'', May 13, 2016. She is most noted for her 2012 album ''Le Royaume'', which was a shortlisted Juno Award nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2013. Originally from Mascouche, Boisclair had her first experience in music when she played the role of Sandy in a production of '' Grease''.Marie-Christine Blais"Il était une fois Amylie" ''La Presse'', November 22, 2008. She released her debut album ''Jusqu'aux oreilles'' in 2008, and followed up with ''Le Royaume'' in 2012. Her third album, ''Les Éclats'', was released in 2016. She has also performed in the group Louve, with Marie-Pierre Arthur, Ariane Moffatt, Salomé Leclerc and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne.Véronique Lauzon"Collectif Louve: le chant des louves" ''La Presse is a French-language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 188 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammoye
Shernette Amoy Evans, known by the stage name Ammoye, is a Jamaican-Canadian reggae musician,Richard Johnson"Ammoye’s happy about Sorry" ''Jamaica Observer'', February 20, 2017. most noted as a seven-time Juno Award nominee for Reggae Recording of the Year. Originally from Halse Hall in Jamaica, she moved to Toronto, Ontario as a teenager. She participated in the Toronto music scene in the 2000s, most notably contributing music to the ''Version Xcursion'' compilation of Jamaican Canadian artists. Her first album was ''Haffi Win'', a collaboration with Eric Vani of Flying Down Thunder and Rise Ashen. She received her first Juno Award nomination at the Juno Awards of 2013 for her single "Radio". She was subsequently nominated at the Juno Awards of 2014 for the single "Baby It's You", at the Juno Awards of 2017 for the single "Sorry", at the Juno Awards of 2018 for the album ''The Light'', at the Juno Awards of 2021 for the single "Give It All", at the Juno Awards of 2023 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altameda
Altameda is a Canadian folk-rock and alternative country duo, consisting of singer-songwriter Troy Snaterse and drummer Erik Grice. They are most noted for their 2022 album ''Born Losers'', which was a shortlisted Juno Award nominee for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023. The group was first formed in the mid-2010s in Edmonton, Alberta, when Snaterse recruited several friends to assist in recording what was originally intended as a solo album.Sydney Morton"Altameda refuses to be defined under any musical genre" ''Kelowna Capital News'', January 14, 2019. The other two original members were keyboardist Matthew Kraus and bassist Todd Andrews. Choosing instead to proceed as a full band, they released their debut album ''Dirty Rain'' in 2016. They followed up in 2019 with the album ''Time Hasn't Changed You''. Snaterse and Grice moved to Toronto, Ontario. in 2020, opting to continue as a duo after Kraus and Andrews chose not to follow. ''Born Losers'', thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaskan Tapes
Alaskan Tapes is the stage name of Brady Kendall, a Canadian performer of ambient electronic and neoclassical music from Brooklin, Ontario. He has released several albums, as well as composing film scores. Andrew De Zen's music video for "Places" was a Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019, and Meredith Hama-Brown's music video for "And, We Disappear" was nominated for the Prism Prize in 2020.Sarah Murphy"Here are the 2020 Prism Prize Finalists" ''Exclaim! ''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly ''Exclaim!'' print magazine publishes seven ...'', February 27, 2020. Discography Albums *''We All Speak in Poems'' - 2016 *''In Distance We're Losing'' - 2017 *''You Were Always an Island'' - 2018 *''The Ocean No Longer Wants Us'' - 2018 *''Millions'' - 2019 *''Views From Sixteen Stories'' - 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AHI (musician)
Ahkinoah Habah Izarh, better known by the stage name AHI is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He has been a two-time Juno Award nominee for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year, receiving nods at the Juno Awards of 2019 for his album ''In Our Time'' and at the Juno Awards of 2022 for his album ''Prospect''. Originally from Brampton, Ontario and based primarily in Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ..., he released his debut album ''We Made It Through the Wreckage'' in 2016. In 2017, he won the Canadian Songwriting Competition in the folk category, as well as the Stingray Rising Star Award at the Folk Music Ontario conference. He then signed to Thirty Tigers, which released his sophomore album ''In Our Time'' in 2018 and ''Prospect'' in 2021. The latter was lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomeansno
Nomeansno (sometimes stylized as NoMeansNo or spelled No Means No) was a Canadian punk rock band formed in Victoria, British Columbia, and later relocated to Vancouver. They released 11 albums, including a The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy, collaborative album with Jello Biafra, and numerous EPs and singles. Critic Martin Popoff described their music as "the mightiest merger between the hateful aggression of punk rock, punk and the discipline of heavy metal music, heavy metal."Popoff, Martin: "The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal", page 316. CG Publishing, 1997 Nomeansno's distinct hardcore punk sound, complex instrumentation, and dark, "savagely intelligent" lyrics inspired subsequent musicians. They were a formative influence on punk jazz, post-hardcore, math rock, and emo. Formed in 1979 by brothers Rob WRob and John Wright (musician), John Wright, they began as a two-piece punk band influenced by jazz and progressive rock. They self-released their debut ''Mama (Nomean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
The 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards were presented in Toronto, Ontario on December 3, 2016. '''', September 21, 2016. Nominees and recipients Recipients are listed first and highlighted in boldface.References External links Canadian Folk Music Awards {{Canadian Folk Music Awards 12 |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's "newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, ''The Globe (Toronto newspaper), The Globe'' and ''The Daily Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of ''The Toronto Mail'' and ''The Empire (Toronto), The Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaytranada
Louis Kevin Celestin (born August 25, 1992), known professionally as Kaytranada (stylized as KAYTRANADA, shortened as KAYTRA), is a Haitian-Canadian music producer, rapper, singer and DJ. Celestin rose to prominence after releasing a series of mixtapes, remixes, and original music projects beginning in 2010 under the alias Kaytradamus. By 2013, and under the moniker Kaytranada, he began gaining wider recognition and, the following year, signed a deal with XL Recordings, with whom he would release his critically acclaimed debut studio album '' 99.9%'' in 2016. In 2019, he released its follow-up, '' Bubba'', for which he won two Grammy Awards including Best Dance/Electronic Album. Celestin is one half of the hip hop duo the Celestics, along with his brother Lou Phelps. Early life Kaytranada was born Louis Kevin Celestin on August 25, 1992, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Shortly after he was born, his family relocated to Saint-Hubert near Montreal where he was raised, and where he be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
