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CBC Music's Toyota Searchlight 2021: the winners

Check out the grand prize champ and our 4 runners-up in this year's contest.

6 Indigenous artists you need to know in 2021

Including a 2021 Polaris Music Prize longlisted artist and an electro-pop triple threat.

Summer 2021 guide: 21 albums you need to hear

All the Canadian releases you should check out including JP Saxe, the Halluci Nation, Ralph and more.

Jeanne Lamon, violinist and former Tafelmusik director, dead at 71

Under more than 3 decades of her musical leadership, Tafelmusik became 'one of the world’s top baroque orchestras.'

Pura Fé on Pura Fé: her essential songs and albums

Meet PIQSIQ, Inuit-style throat-singing sisters and inventors of a new instrument called 'the death harp'

50 years ago, Joni Mitchell introduced many of us to the sounds of the dulcimer

50 years of Blue: a celebration of the Joni Mitchell masterpiece

Charlotte Day Wilson's personal epiphany, and 3 more songs you need to hear this week

CBC Music's Toyota Searchlight 2021: the Top 10 finalists

Events Searchlight June 15

Re-examining Gordon Lightfoot's 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy'

What is this year's song of the summer? Here are 11 Canadian contenders

Kathleen Edwards, Mustafa, Tobi and more make the 2021 Polaris Music Prize long list

Game Changers: 60 years of Indigenous musicians who have broken boundaries

How a new EP and name are helping Status/Non-Status interrogate the effects of colonization

Changing the past: How composer Ian Cusson rewrote part of the famous Louis Riel opera

Radio Q September 19, 2019

What does it mean to be the first?

Is Buffy Sainte-Marie's Power in the Blood the defining record of our time?

December 19, 2019

Willie Dunn was more than my mentor

This podcast episode looks at Indigenous appropriation in Canadian art music

September 26, 2019

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First Play Live: William Prince, Reliever

First Play Live February 14, 2020

Northern Haze pioneered Inuit metal in the '80s — but they're not done yet

August 29, 2019

Tanya Tagaq's act of protest

Read December 19, 2019

'He was a real class act': the legacy of groundbreaking folk musician Shingoose

Lose yourself in the stirring guitar songs of Igloolik musician Terry Uyarak

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