Music of Canada's Prairie Provinces
|
|
| Music of Canada | ||
|---|---|---|
| Maritime Provinces (NL, NS, PE, NB) | North (NU, NT, YT) | |
| Prairie Provinces (AB, MB, SK) | First Nations (Inuit, Dene, Innu) | |
| Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec | ||
| Genres: Celtic - Classical - Folk - Hip hop - Jazz - Pop - Rock | ||
| Timeline and Samples | ||
| Awards | Junos, Hall of Fame, ECMAs, WCMAs, CASBYs, CRMAs, CCMAs, MMVAs | |
| Charts | Jam!, Chart, Exclaim! | |
| Festivals | CMW, NXNE | |
| Print media | CM, CMN, Chart, Exclaim!, The Record, RPM | |
| Music television | Much, MMM, CMT | |
| National anthem | "O Canada" | |
| Local music | ||
| Cape Breton | ||
The city of Edmonton is the musical center of the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta; it is sometimes called the Nashville of the North due to the predominance of country music there. 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) Template:Ref.
Popular music
Rock bands include The Weakerthans, Ian Tyson, The Guess Who, Red Rider, The Watchmen, Wide Mouth Mason, 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, and Joni Mitchell, as well as folk acts such as Andrea Menard and Hart-Rouge.