2016 in Canadian music
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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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.
- August 20 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts The Tragically Hip's concert at the K-Rock Centre in their hometown of Kingston, which may be the band's last-ever live concert due to Gord Downie's cancer diagnosis, as a live cross-platform broadcast on CBC Television, CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, CBC Music and YouTube.[3]
- September 19 – Kaytranada's album 99.9% is named the winner of the Polaris Music Prize.[4]
- December 3 – 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Bands disbanded
Albums released
A
- Aerialists, Aerialists
- AHI, We Made It Through the Wreckage
- Alaskan Tapes, We All Speak in Poems
- Altameda, Dirty Rain
- Ammoye, Enter the Warrioress
- Amylie, Les Éclats
- Matt Andersen, Honest Man – February 26[5]
- Ancient Shapes, Ancient Shapes
- Tafari Anthony, Die for You
- Anvil, Anvil Is Anvil – February 26[5]
B
- Badbadnotgood, IV – July 8
- Jason Bajada, Volcano – February 12[6]
- Matthew Barber and Jill Barber, The Family Album – April 1[7]
- Alexis Baro, Sugar Rush[8]
- Bobby Bazini, Summer Is Gone
- Bear Mountain, BADU – September 9[5]
- Daniel Bélanger, Paloma - November 25
- Art Bergmann, The Apostate – May 13[9]
- The Besnard Lakes, A Coliseum Complex Museum – January 22[10]
- Black Mountain, TBA[5]
- Blackburn Brothers, Brothers in This World
- Jean-Michel Blais, Il
- Bleu Jeans Bleu, Franchement wow
- Blue Moon Marquee, Gypsy Blues
- Blue Rodeo, 1000 Arms – October 28
- Will Bonness, Halcyon
- Brasstronaut, Brasstronaut – November 11
- Alysha Brilla, Human
- Jim Bryson, Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – February 12
- Basia Bulat, Good Advice – February 12[11]
- The Burning Hell, Public Library – April 1
C
- Brendan Canning, Home Wrecking Years – August 12
- Charlotte Cardin, Big Boy
- Jazz Cartier, Hotel Paranoia
- Tanika Charles, Soul Run – May 10
- Classified, Greatful – January 15[5]
- Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker
- Jason Collett, Song and Dance Man – February 5[11]
- Antoine Corriveau, Cette chose qui cognait au creux de sa poitrine sans vouloir s'arrêter
- Crown Lands, Mantra
- Lori Cullen, Sexsmith Swinghammer Songs
D
- The Damn Truth, Devilish Folk
- Dead Obies, Gestamtkunstwerk – March 4[5]
- Del Barber & the No Regretzkys, The Puck Drops Here[12]
- Art d'Ecco, Day Fevers
- Devours, Late Bloomers
- Céline Dion, Encore un soir – August 26
- The Dirty Nil, Higher Power – February 26
- Gord Downie, Secret Path – October 18[13]
- Drake, Views – April 29
E
- Earle and Coffin, Live at the Citadel House
- Micah Erenberg, Poor Mic's Toe[14]
F
- The Flatliners, TBA[5]
- Luca Fogale, Safety
- Fond of Tigers, Uninhabit – October 7
- Fresh Snow, ONE[15]
G
- The Garrys, Warm Buds
- Karina Gauvin, Divine Karina – February 12[5]
- Hannah Georgas, For Evelyn[16]
- Matthew Good, I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited – December 2
- Aaron Goodvin, Aaron Goodvin
- Great Lake Swimmers, Swimming Away
H
- Harrison, Checkpoint Titanium[17]
- Ron Hawkins, Spit Sputter and Sparkle – March 25[18]
- Tim Hecker, TBA[5]
- Angela Hewitt, Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas – February 12[5]
- The Hidden Cameras, Home on Native Land
- Matt Holubowski, Solitudes
- Holy Fuck, TBA[5]
I
- Ice Cream, Love, Ice Cream
J
- Sammy Jackson, Take Me Back
- July Talk, Touch – September 9
- Junior Boys, Big Black Coat – February 5[5]
K
- Kaytranada, 99.9% – May 6
- Aidan Knight, Each Other – January 22[5]
- Koriass, Love Suprême
- Chantal Kreviazuk, Hard Sail – July 17 [19]
- Nicholas Krgovich, The Hills[20]
- Patrick Krief, Automanic – September 30
L
- Land of Talk, TBA[5]
- k.d. lang with Neko Case and Laura Veirs, case/lang/veirs
- Salomé Leclerc, Live au Treatment
- Little Scream, TBA[5]
- Les Louanges, Le Mercure
M
- The Maddigans, No Place Like Here – April 4
- Ria Mae, Ria Mae – June 3
- Magic!, Primary Colours – July 1
- Majid Jordan, Majid Jordan – February 5[5]
- Kate Maki, Head in the Sand – May 20[21]
- Dan Mangan, Unmake – June 17
- Carolyn Mark, Come! Back! Special!
- Shawn Mendes, Illuminate
- Dylan Menzie, Adolescent Nature
- Millimetrik, Fog Dreams
- Ryland Moranz, Hello New Old World
N
- Nap Eyes, Thought Rock Fish Scale
- Sarah Neufeld, The Ridge – February 26[5]
O
- The Oot n' Oots, Songs and Tales from the Great Blue Whale
- Karim Ouellet, Trente – March 11[22]
P
- Dorothea Paas, No Loose Ends
- PartyNextDoor, PartyNextDoor 3 – August 12
- Philémon Cimon, Psychanalysez-vous avec Philémon Cimon
- Lido Pimienta, La Papessa
- Plants and Animals, Waltzed in from the Rumbling – April 29
- Protest The Hero, Pacific Myth – November 18
R
- Radio Radio, Light the Sky – February 19[5]
- Allan Rayman, Hotel Allan
- Corin Raymond, Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
- Amanda Rheaume, Holding Patterns
- River Tiber, Indigo - June 24
- Benjamin Dakota Rogers, Whisky & Pine
- Royal Canoe, Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit
- Rum Ragged, Rum Ragged
- Justin Rutledge, East – September 30[23]
- Serena Ryder, Utopia
S
- Sam Roberts Band, Terraform – October 28
- John K. Samson, Winter Wheat – October 21[24]
- SATE, RedBlack&Blue
- Ségala, Plato Hess
- Andy Shauf, The Party – May 20
- Mike Shabb, Sewaside LP
- Crystal Shawanda, Fish Out of Water
- Shotgun Jimmie, Field of Trampolines
- Simple Plan, Taking One for the Team – February 19[5]
- Dallas Smith, Side Effects - September 2
- So Loki, V
- Solids, Else
- Souldia, Sacrifice
- John Southworth, Small Town Water Tower
- Rae Spoon, Armour – February 19[25]
- Frederick Squire, Spooky Action at a Distance – May 27[26]
- The Strumbellas, Hope – February 5[5]
- Sussex, Parade Day
- Suuns, Hold/Still
T
- Tanya Tagaq, Retribution – October 21[27]
- Tasha the Amazon, Die Every Day
- Tegan and Sara, Love You to Death – June 3
- Tory Lanez, I Told You – August 19
- The Tragically Hip, Man Machine Poem – June 17
- A Tribe Called Red, We Are the Halluci Nation
- Tuns, Tuns – August 26[28]
U
- Un Blonde, Good Will Come to You
V
- Mathew V, Sounds
- Rosie Valland, Nord-Est
- Venetian Snares, Traditional Synthesizer Music – February 20[29]
- Lindy Vopnfjörð, Frozen in Time – October 28
W
- Martha Wainwright, Goodnight City
- Frank Walker, Nocturnal
- Dawn Tyler Watson, Jawbreaker!
- Weaves, Weaves
- The Weeknd, Starboy – November 25
- White Lung, Paradise [30]
- WHOOP-Szo, Citizen's Ban(ne)d Radio
- Wild Rivers, Wild Rivers
- Wintersleep, The Great Detachment – March 4[5]
- Woodpigeon, TROUBLE
- Royal Wood, Ghost Light
- Donovan Woods, Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled – February 26[31]
- Roy Woods, Nocturnal – December 23
- Roy Woods, Waking at Dawn – July 1
Y
- Ken Yates, Huntsville
- You Say Party, You Say Party – February 12[5]
- Your Boy Tony Braxton, Adult Contempt – July 15[32]
Z
Year-End List
Deaths
- January 3 – Paul Bley, jazz pianist
- January 14 – René Angélil, 73, entertainment manager (Celine Dion)
- February 3 – Brad Kent, musician (D.O.A., Avengers)
- February 6 – Gilles Brown, singer
- February 15 – Vanity, 57, singer
- March 9 – Ray Griff, 75, country music singer and songwriter
- March 30 – Howard Cable, conductor, composer and arranger
- April 3 – Don Francks, 84, jazz vocalist and actor
- April 27 – Philip Kives, founder of K-tel
- June 4 – Bobby Curtola, 73, singer
- June 8 – Brian Rading, 69, bassist Five Man Electrical Band
- June 21 – Pierre Lalonde, singer and television host
- July 4 – William Hawkins, songwriter and poet
- July 9 – Geneviève Castrée, musician and comic book artist
- July 29 – Lucille Dumont, singer
- July 31 – Penny Lang, folk musician
- September 3 – Raymond Daveluy, composer and organist
- October 29 – Paul Demers, singer-songwriter
- November 7 – Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter