title: 2019 in Canadian music
text: # 2019 in Canadian music
  
  Music of Canada :
  
  Genres :
  
  Blues
  
  classical
  
  country
  
  grime
  
  hip hop
  
  jazz
  
  punk
  
  rock
  
  Latin
  
  subgenres :
  
  Specific forms :
  
  Media and performance :
  
  Nationalistic and patriotic songs :
  
  Regional music :
  
  Ontario
  
  Quebec
  
  British Columbia
  
  Prairie Provinces
  
  AB
  
  SK
  
  MB
  
  Newfoundland and Labrador
  
  Maritime Provinces
  
  NB
  
  PEI
  
  NS
  
  Yukon
  
  Northwest Territories
  
  Nunavut :
  
  vte :
  
  The following musical events and releases are expected to happen 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 is announced
  * July – SOCAN Songwriting Prize
  * July – Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize is announced
  * September – Haviah Mighty wins the Polaris Music Prize for her album 13th Floor
  
  ## Albums released
  
  ### A
  
  * Absolutely Free, Geneva Freeport
  * Alaskan Tapes, Millions
  * Alaskan Tapes, Views from Sixteen Stories
  * Altameda, Time Hasn't Changed You
  * Anemone, Beat My Distance - February 15
  
  ### B
  
  * Badge Époque Ensemble, Badge Époque Ensemble
  * Tim Baker, Forever Overhead - April 19
  * Bedouin Soundclash, MASS - October 4
  * Begonia, Fear
  * Beppie, Song Soup
  * Bibi Club, Bibi Club
  * Bleu Jeans Bleu, Perfecto
  * 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
  * 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
  * Tanika Charles, The Gumption - May 10
  * Clairmont the Second, Do You Drive? - January 31
  * City and Colour, A Pill for Loneliness - October 4
  * Bruce Cockburn, Crowing Ignites - September 20
  * 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
  
  ### D
  
  * Mac DeMarco, Here Comes the Cowboy - May 10
  * 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
  * Durham County Poets, Hand Me Down Blues
  
  ### E
  
  * Efajemue, Motions and Methods
  * 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
  * Debby Friday, Death Drive
  
  ### G
  
  * 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 8
  
  ### 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+
  * Andrew Hyatt, Abel
  
  ### I
  
  * Iamtheliving, In This Thing Called Life
  * Ice Cream, Fed Up
  * iskwē, acākosīk - November 8, 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
  * 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
  * 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
  * Safia Nolin, xX3m0 $0ng$ 2 $!nG @L0nG 2Xx
  
  ### O
  
  * OBUXUM, Re-Birth
  * Ocie Elliott, We Fall In
  * Okan, Sombras
  * Ouri, We Share Our Blood
  
  ### P
  
  * Partner, Saturday the 14th
  * Orville Peck, Pony
  * Philémon Cimon, Pays
  * Planet Giza, Added Sugar
  * poolblood, Yummy
  * PUP, Morbid Stuff - April 5
  * Pvrx, 3.14 - July 26
  
  ### R
  
  * Billy Raffoul, Running Wild
  * The Reklaws, Freshman Year - August 27
  * Amanda Rheaume, The Skin I'm In
  * Riit, Ataataga - October 25
  * John River, The Academy - January 25
  * Royal Canoe, Waver
  * Reuben and the Dark, un love - October 25
  * Rheostatics, Here Come the Wolves - September 6
  * Ruth B, Maybe I'll Find You Again - March 22
  * Justin Rutledge, Passages - May 31
  
  ### S
  
  * Said the Whale, Cascadia
  * Saint Asonia, Flawed Design
  * 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
  * Dallas Smith, The Fall - March 13
  * Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Trapline
  * SonReal, The Aaron LP - May 10
  * Rae Spoon, Mental Health
  * The Strumbellas, Rattlesnake - March 29
  * Sum 41, Order in Decline - July 19
  * 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
  
  ### 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
  * November 20 - John Mann, singer and guitarist (Spirit of the West)
  * December 5 - Leon Cole, organist, composer and classical music radio host
  * December 15 - Monique Leyrac, singer
  * December 24 - Kelly Fraser, singer
  