Births 18 January – Jim Matt, country music singer. 18 January – Patrick Esposito Di Napoli, member of Les Colocs (d.1994). 25 January – Andrew MacNaughtan, photographer and music video director (d.2012). 30 January – Patricia Conroy, country music singer. 1 February – Dwayne Goettel, former member of Skinny Puppy (d.1995). 6 February – Gordon Downie, lead singer and lyricist for The Tragically Hip. 8 March – Denise Murray, country music singer. 8 June – Mark Howard, audio engineer. 17 August – Colin James, Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter, and guitarist. 12 September – Greg McConnell, indie rocker and member of Absolute Whores (d.1999). 16 November – Diana Krall, Grammy and Juno Awards winning jazz musician. 29 November – Jesse Cook, Juno Award-winning guitarist. 30 November – Edwin Orion Brownell, neo-classical composer and concert pianist. 7 December – Kyp Harness, folk singer and social activist.
Full date unknown Charest, Benoît, guitarist and film score composer. Danna, Jeff, film score composer Lee, Brent, composer and professor of Music Composition at the University of Windsor. Ichkhanian, Levon, jazz composer and guitarist
Events
Albums released Lorne Greene, The Man
Awards 28 December, the 1st RPM Awards are announced.
Festivals Mariposa Folk Festival was held at the Maple Leaf Stadium Miramichi Folksong Festival Montreal Festivals
Magazines and publications 24 February – RPM publishes first issue.
Music groups Bands formed 3's a Crowd (band) Chai Folk Ensemble Jack London & The Sparrows The Mynah Birds
Bands disbanded CBC Symphony Orchestra The Crew-Cuts
Organisations Alberta Music Festival Association is established to coordinate local music competition.
Record labels
Singles released "My Baby's Comin' Home" by Paul Anka
Songs Early Morning Rain, composed and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot. Mon Pays ("My Homeland") composed by Gilles Vigneault. Universal Soldier (song), written and recorded Buffy Sainte-Marie. You Were on My Mind, written by Sylvia Tyson.
Venues The Matador Club, a country-music venue, opens in Toronto.
Other 10 April – Glenn Gould retires from public performance in Los Angeles.
Deaths 7 January – Colin McPhee, composer and musicologist. 9 September – Charles O'Neill, bandmaster, composer, organist, cornetist, and music educator. 24 November – Georges-Émile Tanguay, composer, organist, pianist, and music educator. 27 December – Pierre-Aurèle Asselin, tenor singer, brother to Marie-Anne Asselin.
See also 1964 in music 1964 in Canada 1964 in Canadian television
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