Canada rocks! Lets hear it for the canuck bands

[The Groke]

alot of mediocre bands like wolf parade getting records out doe to the Canadian State investing so hard in it's music industry.

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Wolf Parade are great and BSS are pretty decent.

 

[flypanam]

Wolf Parade are great and BSS are pretty decent.

WP leave me pretty cold, but everyone has different tastes

 

[Orang Utan]

have DOA been mentioned? they were excellent. joey shithead's got a great punk voice.

 

[Weak Superhero]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[stavros]

Bump for Canada Day;

 

[spring-peeper]

Since it was bumped for Canada Day, this was the musical line up for Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa.

Parliament Hill — noon show (begins at 12 p.m. ET)

Sarah McLachlan (British Columbia).
Shane Yellowbird (Alberta).
Gregory Charles (Quebec).
Les Respectables (Quebec) with Gordie Johnson (Manitoba).
Marie-Jo Therio (New Brunswick).
Marie-Mai (Quebec).
Hannah Georgas (Ontario) and Said the Whale (British Columbia).
DRUM! (Nova Scotia).
Parliament Hill — evening show (begins at 7:30 p.m. ET)

Sarah McLachlan (British Columbia) — pop.
Chic Gamine (Manitoba).
Shane Yellowbird (Alberta) and Cassiopee (Quebec) — country.
Les Respectables (Quebec) with Gordie Johnson (Manitoba) — rock.
Marie-Jo Therio (New Brunswick) — pop.
Marie-Mai (Quebec) — rock.
K'Naan (Ontario) — hip hop/world music.
Said the Whale (British Columbia) with Hannah Georgas (Ontario) — indie pop.
Cirque Fantastic Concept (Quebec) — circus arts.
Nico Archambault (Quebec) — dance.
Alex Wells (British Columbia) — hoop dancer.
Cassiopée (Quebec) — soprano soloist.
Chic Gamine (Man.) — Roots.
The Canadian Tenors (Ontario) — Classical and contemporary pop.
Major's Hill Park — noon show (from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET)

Caridad Cruz (Quebec).
David Myles (New Brunswick).
DRUM! (Nova Scotia) – world rhythms.
The CBC Songwriter Circle featuring the Six String Nation Guitar.
Julie Doiron (New Brunswick).
Justin Rutledge (Ontario).
The Sojourners (British Columbia).
Maybe Smith (Saskatchewan).
Major's Hill Park — evening show (from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET)

The Sojourners (British Columbia) — roots.
Dominique Reynolds (Manitoba) — pop.
Alex Cuba (British Columbia) — Latin, pop, soul.
Ellen McIlwain (Alberta) — blues.
DRUM! (Nova Scotia) — world rhythms.
Jacques-Cartier Park (from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET)

IMA (Quebec) — pop.
Radio Radio (New Brunswick) — Acadian hip hop.
David Jalbert (Quebec) folk, pop.
Beast (Quebec) — electronic.
Julie Doiron (New Brunswick) — folk, pop.
Marie-Pierre Arthur (Quebec) — folk, rock.
Confederation Park (Ottawa Jazz Festival) (daytime)

Amanda Tosoff (British Columbia).
Michael Kaeshammer (Alberta).
Bell Orchestre (Quebec).
Gypsophilia (Nova Scotia).
Carmen Souza (Ontario).
Coeur de Pirate (Quebec).
The Worst Pop Band Ever (Ontario and Quebec).
Jazz Youth Summit.

I watched the noon show on tv, and didn't recognize most of them. It was interesting to listen to the songs sung in the Innuit dialect and some African language.

 

[stavros]

I watched the South Park film last night, and when the US is up in arms over Terrance & Philip, they say that it isn't the first time acts from Canada have caused distress, to which the Canadian ambassador replies "No look, we've already apologised for Bryan Adams on several occasions".

 

[gabe2]

uhh....maybe you can't hear very well beneath that rock you're under

 

[purves grundy]

I went to a Canada Day thing here and heard lots of great Canadian music. But I don't know names. Except for the excellent Sunset Rubdown, Handsome Furs and the inevitable Arcade Fire.