The following musical events and releases happened in 2019 in Canada.
Events March – Juno Awards of 2019 April – East Coast Music Awards May – Prism Prize June – Preliminary longlist for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize was announced July – SOCAN Songwriting Prize July – Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize was announced September – Haviah Mighty won the Polaris Music Prize for her album 13th FloorDavid Friend, "NewsAlert: Haviah Mighty wins Polaris prize for '13th Floor'". Victoria Times-Colonist, September 16, 2019.
Albums released
A Absolutely Free, Geneva Freeport"Here Are Exclaim!'s 22 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2019". Exclaim!, January 2, 2019. Alaskan Tapes, Millions Alaskan Tapes, Views from Sixteen Stories Jeremie Albino, Hard TimeKaitlin Ruether, "Jeremie Albino: Hard Time". Exclaim!, August 5, 2019. Altameda, Time Hasn't Changed You Anemone, Beat My Distance - February 15 Laura Anglade, I've Got Just About Everything Aphrose, Element"First Play Live: Aphrose, Element". CBC Music, January 9, 2020.
B Badge Époque Ensemble, Badge Époque EnsembleVish Khanna, "Badge Époque Ensemble, Badge Époque Ensemble". Exclaim!, June 10, 2019. Tim Baker, Forever Overhead - April 19"Hey Rosetta's Tim Baker Details 'Forever Overhead' Solo Album". Exclaim!, February 12, 2019. Bedouin Soundclash, MASS - October 4 Begonia, Fear Beppie, Song Soup Bibi Club, Bibi Club Big Brave, A Gaze Among Them Bleu Jeans Bleu, Perfecto Blue Moon Marquee, Bare Knuckles & Brawn Jacob Brodovsky, Sixteen YearsErin Lebar, "Winnipeg singer goes solo with new EP: Sixteen Years a preview of future releases for frontman of disbanded folk-rock group". Winnipeg Free Press, May 4, 2019. Dean Brody, Black Sheep - April 26 Chad Brownlee, Back in the Game - June 21 Broken Social Scene, Let’s Try the After Vol. 1 - February 15 Broken Social Scene, Let’s Try the After Vol. 2 - April 12 Michael Jerome Browne, That's Where It's At Jon Bryant, Cult Classic - May 17 Louise Burns, Portraits - November 8 Burnstick, Kîyânaw Spencer Burton, The Mountain Man
C Daniel Caesar, Case Study 01 - June 28 Alessia Cara, This Summer - September 6 Celeigh Cardinal, Stories from a Downtown Apartment Lou-Adriane Cassidy, C'est la fin du monde à tous les joursMarissa Groguhé, "Le vrai début pour Lou-Adriane Cassidy". La Presse, April 4, 2019. Tanika Charles, The Gumption - May 10 Clairmont the Second, Do You Drive? - January 31 City and Colour, A Pill for Loneliness - October 4"City and Colour announces new album, shares North American tour dates". Glide, June 3, 2019. Bruce Cockburn, Crowing Ignites - September 20David Friend, "Bruce Cockburn avoids impulse to get political with lyric-less new album". Toronto Star, September 19, 2019. Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance - November 22 Charlotte Cornfield, The Shape of Your Name Corridor, Junior Les Cowboys Fringants, Les Antipodes Amelia Curran, Live at Massey Hall Isabelle Cyr, Brûle sur mes lèvres"«Brûle sur mes lèvres»: Isabelle Cyr propose un nouvel album". Le Journal de Montréal, April 24, 2019.
D Mac DeMarco, Here Comes the Cowboy - May 10"Mac DeMarco releasing fourth full length LP 'Here Comes the Cowboy' May 10th". Glide, March 5, 2019. Del Barber, Easy Keeper Devours, Iconoclast Le Diable à Cinq, Debout! Digawolf, Yellowstone Céline Dion, Courage - November 15 Julie Doiron with Mount Eerie, Lost Wisdom pt. 2 - November 8 Drake, Care Package - August 2 Liam Duncan, If I Don't Feel BetterBrad Wheeler, "Folk-country singer Boy Golden found freedom in an alter ego: For Winnipeg’s Liam Duncan, it was a freeing experience to create a persona to write and perform his own folk-country material". The Globe and Mail, August 4, 2023. Marc Dupré, Rien ne se perd Durham County Poets, Hand Me Down Blues
E Efajemue, Motions and Methods Thompson Egbo-Egbo, The Offering Micah Erenberg, Love Is Gonna Find You André Ethier, Croak in the Weeds
F Lara Fabian, Papillon Stephen Fearing, The Unconquerable Past FET.NAT, Le Mal Dominique Fils-Aimé, Stay Tuned! Flore Laurentienne, Volume 1 Florian Hoefner Trio, First Spring Flying Hórses, Reverie FouKi, ZayZay The Franklin Electric, In Your Head EP - August 2 Fredz, Pas d'épines, pas de roses and Dans ma tête Debby Friday, Death Drive
G Sebastian Gaskin, Contradictions Hannah Georgas, Imprints Leela Gilday, North Star Calling The Glorious Sons, A War on Everything - September 13 The Golden Seals, Something Isn't Happening Aaron Goodvin, V Jenn Grant, Love, Inevitable - May 31 Great Lake Swimmers, The Waves, the Wake (Acoustic) - November 8Sarah Murphy, "Great Lake Swimmers Reveal Acoustic Version of 'The Waves, the Wake' LP". Exclaim!, September 20, 2019.
H Half Moon Run, A Blemish in the Great Light – November 1 Haviah Mighty, 13th Floor Joshua Haulli, Aqqut Headstones, PeopleSkills – October 25 Hey Major, The Station Hollerado, Retaliation Vacation Hunter Brothers, State of Mind – January 25 Nate Husser, 23+Clayton Tomlinson, "Nate Husser Is Montreal Rap's LeBron James". Exclaim!, February 12, 2019. Andrew Hyatt, Abel
I Iamtheliving, In This Thing Called Life Ice Cream, Fed Up iskwē, acākosīk - November 8, 2019Graham Rockingham, "Hamilton-based singer-songwriter shares her journey of Indigenous self-discovery with new album". Hamilton Spectator, November 6, 2019.
J James Barker Band, Singles Only - May 24 Yves Jarvis, The Same but by Different Means JayWood, Time Carly Rae Jepsen, Dedicated - May 17 Lyndon John X, The Warning Track Julian Taylor Band, Avalanche - March 29 Just John x Dom Dias, Don III (April); PROJECT (November)
K Kanen, Kanen Kaytranada, Bubba - December 13 Kid Koala, Music To Draw To: Io - January 25 Patrick Krief, Dovetale - June 7
L Laurence-Anne, Première apparition Avril Lavigne, Head Above Water - February 15 Lee Harvey Osmond, Mohawk Jean Leloup, L'Étrange pays - May 24 Jacob Lewis, Home Sweet Home Murray Lightburn, Hear Me Out - February 22 Lightning Dust, Spectre Loud, Tout ça pour ça - May 24 The Lowest of the Low, Agitpop - May 31
M Ryan MacGrath, That Woods Maestro Fresh Wes, Champagne Campaign - March 8 Alexandria Maillot, Benevolence - November 22 Manila Grey, No Saints Loading Mappe Of, The Isle of Ailynn - November 1 Marianas Trench, Phantoms - March 1 Mauno, Really WellJonathan St. Michael, "Mauno, Really Well". Exclaim!, July 29, 2019. Memphis, Leave With Me - February 8 Millimetrik, Make It Last Forever Monsune, Tradition Mounties, Heavy Meta - April 26
N nêhiyawak, nipiy The New Pornographers, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights - September 27 Eliza Niemi, Vinegar Safia Nolin, xX3m0 $0ng$ 2 $!nG @L0nG 2Xx
O OBUXUM, Re-Birth Ocie Elliott, We Fall InRae Porter, "Tender musical connections mark Ocie Elliott’s latest album". Victoria News, January 31, 2019. Okan, Sombras John Orpheus, Wey Ya Call Dat Ting? Ouri, We Share Our Blood
P Partner, Saturday the 14th"Partner: Saturday the 14th EP". Pitchfork, April 10, 2019. Orville Peck, Pony Jonathan Personne, Histoire naturelle Philémon Cimon, Pays Planet Giza, Added SugarPhilippe Renaud, "Added Sugar, Planet Giza". Le Devoir, February 15, 2019. poolblood, Yummy PUP, Morbid Stuff - April 5 Pvrx, 3.14 - July 26
R Billy Raffoul, Running Wild The Reklaws, Freshman Year - August 27 Reuben and the Dark, un love - October 25 Amanda Rheaume, The Skin I'm In Rheostatics, Here Come the Wolves - September 6Brock Thiessen, "Rheostatics Announce Their First New Album in 15 Years". Exclaim!, June 19, 2019. Riit, Ataataga - October 25Ben Rayner, "Canadian music’s new north star, Riit, lets talent do the talking". Toronto Star, September 19, 2019. Julianna Riolino, J.R. John River, The Academy - January 25 Benjamin Dakota Rogers, Better by Now Royal Canoe, Waver Ruth B, Maybe I'll Find You Again - March 22 Justin Rutledge, Passages - May 31"Justin Rutledge is alt-country with a little help from his friends". Hamilton Spectator, March 8, 2019.
S Said the Whale, Cascadia Saint Asonia, Flawed Design"New album from Three Days Grace/Staind band Saint Asonia due out this year" . WOZZ, February 21, 2019. Sarahmée, Irréversible Jacques Kuba Séguin, Migrations Joseph Shabason, Anne EP - May 10 Shay Lia, Dangerous Silverstein, Redux: The First Ten Years - April 12 Siskiyou, Not Somewhere - May 17"Siskiyou Announces 'Not Somewhere' LP, Shares New Song". Exclaim!, April 4, 2019. Dallas Smith, The Fall - March 13 Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Trapline SonReal, The Aaron LP - May 10 John Southworth, Miracle in the Night Rae Spoon, Mental Health The Strumbellas, Rattlesnake - March 29The Strumbellas announce 'Rattlesnake' album. Exclaim!, January 22, 2019. Sum 41, Order in Decline - July 19"Upcoming Releases: Sum 41, Order in Decline". Punk Rock Theory, April 24, 2019. Super Duty Tough Work, Studies in Grey
T Tariq, Telegrams - March 29 Tegan and Sara, Hey, I'm Just Like You - September 27 Devin Townsend, Empath Tobi, STILL - May 3 Tre Mission, Orphan Black - July 26
V Vile Creature, Preservation Rituals (2015-2018) Leif Vollebekk, New Ways - November 1"Leif Vollebekk Returns with 'New Ways' LP". Exclaim!, June 18, 2019.
W Ruby Waters, Almost Naked Dawn Tyler Watson, Mad Love Patrick Watson, Wave - October 18 We Are the City, RIP Whitehorse, The Northern South, Vol. 2 - January 18 WHOOP-Szo, Warrior Down JJ Wilde, Wilde Eyes, Steady Hands Wintersleep, In the Land Of - March 29 Donovan Woods, The Other Way Hawksley Workman, Median Age Wasteland - March 1
Deaths January 16 - Jean Chatillon, composer January 16 - Alfred Kunz, composer February 9 - Phil Western, electronic/industrial musician February 23 - Johnnie Lovesin, rock singer February 28 - Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist March 6 - Charlie Panigoniak, singer-songwriter March 22 - Joe Hall, singer-songwriter April 1 - Vladimir Orloff, cellist April 20 - David Zafer, violinist May 20 - Dave Bookman, musician (The Bookmen) and radio personality (CFNY-FM, CIND-FM) June 16 - Adam Litovitz, rock musician and film composer"Jooj member Adam Litovitz dead at 36". Now, June 19, 2019. November 20 - John Mann, singer and guitarist (Spirit of the West)Marsha Lederman, "Spirit of the West singer John Mann dies at 57". The Globe and Mail, November 20, 2019. December 5 - Leon Cole, organist, composer and classical music radio host December 15 - Monique Leyrac, singerMayssa Ferah, "La chanteuse Monique Leyrac s’éteint à 91 ans". La Presse, December 15, 2019. December 24 - Kelly Fraser, singer
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