* 1920 – Oscar Brand, Canadian folk musicologist

He is regarded by many as a Canadian folk hero today.

** Stompin ' Tom Connors, Canadian country / folk singer

Bob Hallett of the Canadian folk rock group Great Big Sea is also a renowned performer of the tin whistle, playing it in arrangements of both traditional and original material.

* Timber Timbre, a Canadian folk rock band

* Daniel Lapp, Canadian folk musician

Canadian poet Leonard Cohen is perhaps best known as a folk singer and songwriter, with an international following.

In recent years, however, the family of Canadian folk musician Oscar Brand has suggested he was the namesake.

Perhaps one of the most famous " authentic " folk heroes of the lumber trade was Joseph Montferrand, better known as Big Joe Mufferaw, a French-Canadian logger known for his physical prowess and desire to protect the French Canadian logger.

Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC ( ; born May 27, 1945 ) is a Canadian folk / rock guitarist and singer-songwriter.

For over four decades the Ukrainian Canadian Club of Kingston has hosted the " Lviv, Ukraine " pavilion as part of the Folklore tradition, holding this popular cultural and folk festival annually on the second full weekend in June ( at Regiopolis-Notre Dame High School ).

In Sean-Nós Nua, she covered a well-known Canadian folk song, Peggy Gordon, interpreted as a song of lesbian, rather than heterosexual, love.

Category: Canadian folk rock groups

Canadian folk rock is particularly, although not exclusively, associated with Celtic folk traditions.

In recent years, a variety of Canadian indie music has reached the scene with varying styles of folk rock such as Attack In Black, Great Lake Swimmers, City and Colour, The Wooden Sky, Joel Plaskett and Two Hours Traffic

Canadian music: Though some artists, like The Band, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, had been integral parts of the 1960s American folk rock scene, Canada has seen its own distinctive revival of styles.

Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason remembered during the three-day board meetings when Layton was running for the president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities: “ He would gather people together in his hotel room and play the guitar and get everybody singing old folk songs from the ’ 60s.

* December 22-Charles de Lint, Canadian fantasy author & Celtic folk musician

* The Log Driver's Waltz, Canadian folk song

Tecumseh has become an iconic folk hero in American, Indian and Canadian history.

* Mojave ( band ), a Canadian acoustic and folk band

Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell's experiences with the Matala hippies were immortalised in her 1971 song Carey.

In his 1984 album From Fresh Water, the late Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers immortalised one of Brock's aides-de-camp, John Macdonell, in the song MacDonnell on the Heights.

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* The Boomers ( band ), a Canadian rock band hailing from Ontario

* Default ( band ), a Canadian post-grunge and alternative rock band

Like Hardcore Logo, the 2005 Canadian film The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, about a country rock singer, was also done as a fake documentary with appearances by Kris Kristofferson, Ronnie Hawkins, Merle Haggard and Levon Helm playing themselves.

* Germans ( band ), a Canadian indie rock band

Lee also plays bass on Canadian rock band I Mother Earth's track " Good For Sule ", which is featured on the group's album " Blue Green Orange ", released in 1999.

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Unable to afford the services of the Elvis band for a month, the band featured the talents of obscure Colorado-based rock guitarist Jock Bartley ( soon to skyrocket to fame with Firefall ), veteran Nashville sideman Neil Flanz on pedal steel, Kyle Tullis on bass and former Mountain drummer N. D. Smart ( once described by Canadian folksinger Ian Tyson as " a psychotic redneck ").

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Canadian rock magazine Music Express noted that the band were " banned for life " from the city.

* Metric ( band ), a Canadian indie rock band

* " Madrigal " ( song ), a song by the Canadian rock band Rush, from the album A Farewell to Kings

* Nucleus, predecessor to Canadian rock band A Foot in Coldwater

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

Labrador is the easternmost part of the Canadian Shield, a vast area of ancient metamorphic rock comprising much of northeastern North America.

* 1977 – Justin Peroff, drummer for the Canadian indie rock collective Broken Social Scene

* Prism ( band ), a Canadian rock band

Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario.

* Canadian rock

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In 2001, Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace released an album, titled Spiritual Machines, based on Kurzweil's book.

Canadian electronic progressive rock band Syrinx took their name from the legend.