2019 in Canadian music

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 Floor^[1]

Albums released

A

• Absolutely Free, Geneva Freeport^[2]
• Alaskan Tapes, Millions
• Alaskan Tapes, Views from Sixteen Stories
• Jeremie Albino, Hard Time^[3]
• Altameda, Time Hasn't Changed You
• Anemone, Beat My Distance - February 15
• Aphrose, Element^[4]

B

• Badge Époque Ensemble, Badge Époque Ensemble^[5]
• Tim Baker, Forever Overhead - April 19^[6]
• 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 Years^[7]
• Dean Brody, Black Sheep - April 26^[8]
• Chad Brownlee, Back in the Game - June 21^[9]
• 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 jours^[10]
• Tanika Charles, The Gumption - May 10
• Clairmont the Second, Do You Drive? - January 31
• City and Colour, A Pill for Loneliness - October 4^[11]
• Bruce Cockburn, Crowing Ignites - September 20^[12]
• 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^[13]

D

• Mac DeMarco, Here Comes the Cowboy - May 10^[14]
• Del Barber, Easy Keeper^[15]
• 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 Better^[16]
• 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^[2]
• 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 8^[17]

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^[18]
• Nate Husser, 23+^[19]
• Andrew Hyatt, Abel

I

• Iamtheliving, In This Thing Called Life
• Ice Cream, Fed Up
• iskwē, acākosīk - November 8, 2019^[20]

J

• James Barker Band, Singles Only - May 24^[21]
• Yves Jarvis, The Same but by Different Means
• JayWood, Time
• Carly Rae Jepsen, Dedicated^[2] - 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^[22]
• Lee Harvey Osmond, Mohawk^[2]
• 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 Well^[23]
• Memphis, Leave With Me - February 8
• Millimetrik, Make It Last Forever
• Monsune, Tradition
• Mounties, Heavy Meta - April 26^[2]

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 In^[24]
• Okan, Sombras
• Ouri, We Share Our Blood

P

• Partner, Saturday the 14th^[25]
• Orville Peck, Pony
• Jonathan Personne, Histoire naturelle
• Philémon Cimon, Pays
• Planet Giza, Added Sugar^[26]
• poolblood, Yummy
• PUP, Morbid Stuff - April 5
• Pvrx, 3.14 - July 26

R

• Billy Raffoul, Running Wild
• The Reklaws, Freshman Year - August 27^[27]
• Reuben and the Dark, un love - October 25
• Amanda Rheaume, The Skin I'm In
• Rheostatics, Here Come the Wolves - September 6^[28]
• Riit, Ataataga - October 25^[29]
• John River, The Academy - January 25
• Benjamin Dakota Rogers, Better by Now
• Royal Canoe, Waver^[2]
• Ruth B, Maybe I'll Find You Again - March 22
• Justin Rutledge, Passages - May 31^[30]

S

• Said the Whale, Cascadia^[2]
• Saint Asonia, Flawed Design^[31]
• 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^[32]
• Dallas Smith, The Fall - March 13^[33]
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Trapline
• SonReal, The Aaron LP - May 10
• Rae Spoon, Mental Health
• The Strumbellas, Rattlesnake - March 29^[34]
• Sum 41, Order in Decline - July 19^[35]
• 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^[2]
• Tobi, STILL - May 3
• Tre Mission, Orphan Black - July 26

V

• Vile Creature, Preservation Rituals (2015-2018)
• Leif Vollebekk, New Ways - November 1^[36]

W

• Ruby Waters, Almost Naked
• Dawn Tyler Watson, Mad Love
• Patrick Watson, Wave - October 18
• We Are the City, RIP^[2]
• 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^[2]
• Donovan Woods, The Other Way
• Hawksley Workman, Median Age Wasteland - March 1^[2]

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^[37][38]
• November 20 - John Mann, singer and guitarist (Spirit of the West)^[39]
• December 5 - Leon Cole, organist, composer and classical music radio host
• December 15 - Monique Leyrac, singer^[40]
• December 24 - Kelly Fraser, singer^[41]