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Kathleen Edwards, Mustafa, Swagger Rite and more: songs you need to hear this week

5 fresh Canadian tracks to add to your playlist right now.

Oscar-winning film score composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91

Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as The Untouchables and the epic Once Upon A Time In America, died on Monday. He was 91.

News Entertainment July 6

Haviah Mighty hopes people will 'do their part in reversing white supremacy' after watching her new video

The rapper is releasing the powerful animated visuals for 'Thirteen' on Canada Day because 'celebrating it should look a little different.'

Watch Yannick Nézet-Séguin lead a virtual Canadian orchestra in the world premiere of Vivian Fung's Prayer

36 musicians from 28 orchestras perform the 5-minute symphonic work, commissioned by CBC Music.

Montreal artist Patrick Watson says Indigenous land acknowledgement 'censored' from Canada Day performance

News Canada Montreal July 3

King Khan pays tribute to Buffy Sainte-Marie and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls with new song

Violinist Chloe Kim's weekly online baroque concert series kicks off Friday, July 3

Queer Pride Inside

High above Toronto, soprano Teiya Kasahara performs an epic 'callout to the opera industry'

The best music to stream right now, according to Vivian Fung

'I am profoundly grateful': 2020 Juno winners react to their wins on social media

Junos News June 30

Junos 2020: the complete list of winners

Watch this year's Juno Awards

The Weeknd donates $500,000 to COVID-19 relief efforts in Scarborough

This year's Juno Awards to take place virtually on June 29

Junos News June 25

A brief history of Canada as told through popular lyrics

BET Awards highlight Black voices as artists turn political

News Entertainment June 29

Oscar Peterson's widow thrilled by push to rename Lionel-Groulx Metro after jazz legend

Sidhartha Banerjee

News Canada Montreal June 26

Watch Tyler Shaw host the 5th Junos 365 Songwriters' Circle

Buffy Sainte-Marie's love of animals shines through in her first picture book for kids

Radio The Next Chapter July 3

Bébé Buckskin, Tona, Noble Oak and more: songs you need to hear this week

This group of artists wants to redefine what it means to be Québécois with an alternative Fête nationale

Watch the Bader and Overton Canadian Cello Competition

Queer Pride Inside

This Pride, come inside for a digital queer cabaret unlike anything else

How to watch the rescheduled 2020 East Coast Music Awards

David Strickland: My life in 5 beats

Jesse Kinos-Goodin

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