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In 1967, Radio-Canada released The Centennial Collection of Canadian Folk Songs (much of which was focused on French-Canadian music), which helped launch a revival of Quebec folk. Singers like Yves Albert , Edith Butler , and, especially, Félix Leclerc and Gilles Vigneault , helped lead the way.
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"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" is a Canadian folk song by Gordon Lightfoot describing the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. This song was commissioned by the CBC for a special broadcast on January 1, 1967, to start Canada's Centennial year. [27] It appeared on Lightfoot's The Way I Feel album later in the same year.
Government support programs, such as the Canada Music Fund, assist a wide range of musicians and entrepreneurs who create, produce and market original and diverse Canadian music. [7] The Canadian music industry is the sixth-largest in the world, producing internationally renowned composers, musicians and ensembles. [8]
Canada had hip hop artists right from the early days of the scene – the first known Canadian rap single, Mr. Q's "Ladies Delight", was released in 1979, [18] although even that historic distinction was widely overlooked for many years, with most music historians erroneously crediting Singing Fools' 1982 "The Bum Rap" as the first Canadian hip ...
Music portal; Canada portal; ... Songs about Canada (6 C, 45 P) Pages in category "Canadian songs" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ...
Music charts; Canadian Hot 100; Singles Chart ; Chart Attack; Exclaim! CBC Music Top 20; Music festivals; Many notables; Canadian Music Week; Quebec City Summer Festival; Montreal International Jazz Festival; Les FrancoFolies de Montréal; Ottawa Bluesfest; Big Valley Jamboree; Celtic Colours; Havelock Country Jamboree; Cavendish Beach Music ...
Canadian patriotic songs (3 C, 17 P) Canadian popular music (2 C, 1 P) ... Caribbean music in Canada; Celtic music in Canada; E. Emo; F. French-Canadian music; H ...