Music of Canada's Prairie Provinces

The music of the Canadian Prairies includes the music of the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

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Ethnic music
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Canadian fiddle
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Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem
"O Canada"
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Anthems and nationalistic
Regional music

The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is considered a musical center of this region, having produced artists like Neil Young, The Guess Who, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Crash Test Dummies, and many others. Country music is also popular in all three provinces. 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.

Main articles: Music of Alberta, Music of Manitoba, and Music of Saskatchewan

Singer-songwriters from the region include Jann Arden, Ruth B., Tom Cochrane, Burton Cummings, Mac DeMarco, Feist, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Chantal Kreviazuk, Connie Kaldor, k.d. lang, Eamon McGrath, Tate McRae, Joni Mitchell, Sierra Noble, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tegan and Sara, Ian Tyson, Colter Wall, and Neil Young.

Folk performers include several of the foregoing as well as Don Freed, Hart-Rouge, Andrea Menard, and The Wailin' Jennys.

Rock groups include The Guess Who, Nickelback, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Sheepdogs, The Watchmen, The Weakerthans, and Wide Mouth Mason.

Classical music

Active orchestras include the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony, Regina Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Youth Orchestra, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. The CBC Winnipeg Orchestra was active from 1947 until 1984.

Notes
  1. Kochan and Kytasy


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