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
Lorne Greene, The Man
28 December, the 1st RPM Awards are announced.
Mariposa Folk Festival was held at the Maple Leaf Stadium
Miramichi Folksong Festival
Montreal Festivals
Magazines and publications
24 February - RPM publishes first issue.
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
Alberta Music Festival Association is established to coordinate local music competition.
"My Baby's Comin' Home" by Paul Anka
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.
The Matador Club, a country-music venue, opens in Toronto.
10 April - Glenn Gould retires from public performance in Los Angeles.
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.
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