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

• 3's a Crowd (band)
• Chai Folk Ensemble
• Jack London & The Sparrows
• The Mynah Birds^[5]

Bands disbanded

• CBC Symphony Orchestra^[6]
• The Crew-Cuts^[7]

Organisations

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

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]

See also

• 1964 in music
• 1964 in Canada
• 1964 in Canadian television

References

Citations

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.
2. Lounsbury, Doug. "The RPM Legacy". avtrust.ca. Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. Retrieved 3 February 2012. External link in |work= (help)
3. "Mariposa folk festival". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
4. Lounsbury, Doug. "About RPM Magazine". avtrust.ca. Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. Retrieved 3 February 2012. External link in |work= (help)
5. Nick Warburton (June 2005). "RICK JAMES AND THE MYNAH BIRDS". earcandymag.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012. External link in |work= (help)
6. Ford, Clifford; Wardrop, Patricia. "CBC Symphony Orchestra". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
7. "Artist: Crew Cuts Biography". jam.canoe.ca. Jam!. 30 November 2004. Retrieved 14 July 2012. with notes from Richard Patterson, Bart Shevory, John B. Young and Joe Matthews. External link in |work= (help)
8. Bazzana (2003, p. 229)
9. Keillor, Elaine. "Opera Canada". The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. The Historica Dominion Institute. thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
10. Thérien, Robert, "Biographies » Pierre-Aurèle Asselin, tenor (1881-1964)", collectionscanada.gc.ca (Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada), retrieved 3 February 2012 External link in |work= (help)

Bibliography

• Bazzana, Kevin (2003). Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-1101-6. OCLC 52286240.