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{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2014}}The '''music of the Canadian Prairies''' includes the music of the [[Prairie Provinces]] of [[Manitoba]], [[Saskatchewan]] and [[Alberta]].

The city of [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]], is considered a musical center of this region, having produced artists like [[Neil Young]], [[The Guess Who]], [[Bachman–Turner Overdrive]], [[Crash Test Dummies]], and many others. [[Canadian country music|Country music]] is also popular in all three provinces. The [[Western Canadian Music Award]]s have been created to showcase artists from these provinces (along with British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Northwest Territories). 

==Popular music==
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Singer-songwriters from the region include [[Bob Nolan]], [[Daniel Lavoie]], [[Jann Arden]], [[Ruth B.]], [[Tom Cochrane]], [[Burton Cummings]], [[Mac DeMarco]], [[Feist (singer)|Feist]], [[Carolyn Dawn Johnson]], [[Chantal Kreviazuk]], [[Connie Kaldor]], [[k.d. lang]], [[Tate McRae]], [[Joni Mitchell]], [[Tegan and Sara]], [[Ian Tyson]], [[William Prince (musician)|William Prince]], [[Fred Penner]], [[Colter Wall]], and [[Neil Young]].

Rock groups include [[The Guess Who]], [[Bachman Turner Overdrive]], [[The Stampeders]], [[Loverboy]], [[Nickelback]], [[Crash Test Dummies]], [[The Sheepdogs]], [[The Watchmen (band)|The Watchmen]], [[The Weakerthans]], and [[Wide Mouth Mason]].

==Classical music==

Active orchestras include the [[Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Edmonton Symphony Orchestra]], [[Manitoba Chamber Orchestra]], [[Red Deer Symphony]], [[Regina Symphony Orchestra]], [[Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra]], [[Saskatoon Youth Orchestra]], and [[Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra]]. The [[CBC Winnipeg Orchestra]] was active from 1947 until 1984. The region is also home to opera and ballet companies including the notable [[Royal Winnipeg Ballet]], Canada's oldest.

==Jazz==

Canada's first jazz concert was in 1914 at the [[Pantages Playhouse Theatre]] in [[Winnipeg]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Such Melodious Racket|publisher=Quill and Quire|url=https://quillandquire.com/review/such-melodious-racket-the-lost-history-of-jazz-in-canada-1914-1949/|accessdate=January 3, 2021}}</ref> Notable jazz musicians from the Prairie provinces include Manitoba's [[Fraser MacPherson]], [[Lenny Breau]] and [[Ed Bickert]] and Alberta's [[Eleanor Collins]].

==Folk and regional music==

The ''Rough Guide to World Music'' notes that in the Prairie Provinces, "no [[Ukrainian Canadian|Ukrainian]] wedding band is complete without a [[tsymbaly]], and a small local recording industry there continues to produce cassettes of hybrid ''troista-country'' bands" (emphasis in original).<ref>Kochan and Kytasy</ref> Ukrainian influences on the music can be seen in modern English-language [[polka]] numbers like "[[Giants of the Prairies]]" by the [[Kubasonics]].

Folk performers include [[Oscar Brand]], [[Don Freed]], [[Hart-Rouge]], [[Andrea Menard]], and [[The Wailin' Jennys]].

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