Music of Canada's Prairie Provinces
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| Music of Canada | ||
|---|---|---|
| Maritime Provinces (NS, PEI, NB) | ||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | ||
| Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon | ||
| Prairie Provinces (AB, MB, SK) | ||
| First Nations (Inuit, Dene, Innu) | ||
| Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec | ||
| Genres: Blues - Celtic - Classical - Folk - Hip hop - Jazz - Pop - Rock | ||
| Timeline and Samples | ||
| Awards | Junos, Polaris, Félixes, Hall of Fame, ECMAs, WCMAs, CASBYs, CRMAs, CCMAs, MMVAs, CUMAs | |
| Charts | Jam!, Chart, Exclaim! | |
| Festivals | CMW, NXNE, Halifax Pop Explosion, VFMF, Caribana, Stanfest, Harvest J&B, Evolve | |
| Print media | CM, CMN, Chart, Exclaim!, The Record, RPM, The Coast | |
| Music television | MuchMusic, MTV Canada, MMM, CMT Canada, MusiquePlus, MusiMax | |
| National anthem | "O Canada" | |
The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba is the musical centre of the Canadian Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, having produced artists like Neil Young, The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Crash Test Dummies and many others. Country music continues to be popular in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The Western Canadian Music Awards have been created to showcase artists from these provinces.
The Rough Guide to World Music notes that in the Prairie Provinces, "no Ukrainian wedding band is complete without a tsymbaly, and a small local recording industry there continues to produce cassettes of hybrid troista-country bands" (emphasis in original) [1]. Ukrainian influences on the music can be seen in modern English-language polka numbers like Giants of the Prairies by the Kubasonics.
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Rock bands include The Weakerthans, The Deep Dark Woods, Ian Tyson, The Guess Who, Red Rider, The Watchmen, Wide Mouth Mason, Nickelback, and Captain Tractor.
Aside from country, pop and rock performers, the Prairie Provinces have produced singer-songwriters such as Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jann Arden, Neil Young, Burton Cummings, Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Joni Mitchell, as well as folk acts such as Andrea Menard, Don Freed and Hart-Rouge.
[edit] References
Kochan, Alexis and Julian Kytasy. "The Bandura Played On". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), The Rough Guide to World Music, Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1858286360
[edit] Notes
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