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The following musical events and releases are expected to happen in 2024 in Canada.

Notable events

March 24 - Juno Awards of 2024^[1]
April 6-7 - 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards^[2]
June 25 - Prism Prize^[3]
September 17 - 2024 Polaris Music Prize^[4]

Date TBA

SOCAN Songwriting Prize
2024 Canadian Country Music Awards
46th Félix Awards

Albums set to be released

A

Allie X, Girl with No Face - February 23^[5]
Tenille Arts, To Be Honest - May 3^[6]
Julie Aubé, Boiling Over - April 5^[7]

B

Jill Barber, Encore! - June 14
Begonia, Open Swim - July 17^[8]
Bibi Club, Feu de garde - May 10^[9]
Big Brave, A Chaos of Flowers - April 19
Black Atlass, I'll Meet You There - March 8
Boslen, Conversations Over Dinner - TBA^[10]
The Burning Hell, Hardly Working - March 29
Spencer Burton, North Wind - January 26^[11]

C

Cadence Weapon, Rollercoaster - April 19^[12]
Cherie Camp, Love and Blood - May 30^[8]
Charlotte Cardin, A Week in Nashville - May 17^[8]
Celeigh Cardinal, Boundless Possibilities - June 21^[13]
Chromeo, Adult Contemporary - February 16^[14]
Terri Clark, Terri Clark: Take Two - May 31^[15]
Classified, Luke's View - April 26
Comeback Kid, Trouble - March 15^[16]
Corridor, Mimi - April 26^[17]
Les Cowboys Fringants, Pub Royal - April 25
Cuff the Duke, Breaking Dawn - September 6^[8]

D

The Dead South, Chains & Stakes - February 9^[18]
The Deep Dark Woods, Broadside Ballads Vol. III - May 1^[19]
Mike Downes, The Way In - March 1^[20]
Alan Doyle, Welcome Home - February 9^[21]
Ducks Ltd., Harm's Way - February 9^[22]

E

Ekkstacy, Ekkstacy - January 19^[23]
Elephant Stone, Back Into the Dream - February 23^[24]
Elliott Brood, Country - April 12^[25]
Ellis, No Place That Feels Like - April 26^[26]

F

Michael Feuerstack, Eternity Mongers - April 19^[27]
Flore Laurentienne, 8 tableaux - March 1^[28]
Sue Foley, One Guitar Woman - March 29^[29]

G

Dana Gavanski, Late Slap - April 5^[30]
Ghostly Kisses, Darkroom - May 17^[31]
Good Kid, Good Kid 4 - March 27^[32]
Grievous Angels, Last Call for Cinderella - May 4 ^[33]

H

Lynne Hanson, Just a Poet - May 24
Kyp Harness, Kick the Dust - April 26^[34]
Coleman Hell, Joyride - May 17^[8]
High Valley, Small Town Somethin' - February 2^[35]
Homeshake, CD Wallet - March 8^[36]
Honeymoon Suite, Alive - February 16^[37]
Joshua Hyslop, Evergold - April 26

I

iskwē, nīna - April 12^[38]
Islands, What Occurs - June 21^[8]

J

Nick Johnston, Child of Bliss - March 8^[39]

K

k-os, Atlantis+ (expanded edition reissue of 2006 album Atlantis: Hymns for Disco) - May 3, Everyone in Your Dream Is You (new album) - TBA, Exit (reissue of 2002 album) - TBA, Joyful Rebellion (reissue of 2004 album) - TBA^[40]
Michael Kaeshammer, Turn It Up - March 1^[41]
Kaia Kater, Strange Medicine - May 17^[8]
Kaytranada, Timeless - June 7^[8]
Kiesza, Dancing and Crying: Vol. 1 - May 24^[42]
Kittie, Fire - June 21^[43]
Kalsey Kulyk, Outlaw Poetry - February 23^[44]

L

Matt Lang, All Night Longer - May 10^[45]
Abigail Lapell, Anniversary - May 10^[46]
Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Cuckoo - May 17^[8]
Simon Leoza, Acte III - March 22
Kellie Loder, Transitions - April 19^[47]
Loony, Loony - March 22^[48]
Loving, Any Light - February 9^[49]
Corb Lund, El Viejo - February 23^[50]

M

Cory Marks, Sorry for Nothing - October 11^[51]
Loreena McKennitt, The Road Back Home - March 8^[52]
Jon McKiel, Hex - May 3^[53]
Shawn Mendes, Shawn - October 18
Metz, Up on Gravity Hill - April 12^[54]
Ruth Moody, Wanderer - May 17^[8]
Mother Mother, Grief Chapter - February 16^[55]
David Myles, Devil Talking - May 24^[56]

N

Nyssa, Shake Me Where I'm Foolish - February 1^[57]

O

Jordan Officer, Like Never Before - June 27^[58]
Old Man Luedecke, She Told Me Where to Go - May 24^[59]
The Once, Out Here - February 16^[60]
Robyn Ottolini, Growing Up to Do - January 14^[61]

P

Packs, Melt the Honey - January 19^[62]
PartyNextDoor, PartyNextDoor 4 - April 26
Orville Peck, Stampede - August 2
Joel Plaskett, One Real Reveal - TBA^[63]
Poolblood, theres_plenty_of_music_to_go_around.zip - April 5^[64]
MacKenzie Porter, Nobody's Born with a Broken Heart - April 26^[65]^[66]
Priyanka, Devastatia - August 23^[67]

R

Allan Rayman, The All Allan Hour - April 26
Owen Riegling, Bruce County - May 24^[68]
Josh Ross, Complicated - March 29^[69]
Royal Tusk, Altruistic - February 23^[70]

S

Philip Sayce, The Wolves Are Coming - February 23^[71]^[72]
Talia Schlanger, Grace for the Going - February 2^[73]
Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Red Future - TBA^[74]
Softcult, Heaven - May 24^[75]
Vera Sola, Peacemaker - February 2^[76]
Colin Stetson, the love it took to leave you - September 13^[8]
The Strumbellas, Part Time Believer - February 9^[77]
Sum 41, Heaven :x: Hell - March 29^[78]
Sykamore, Through the Static - March 29^[79]

T

Julian Taylor, Pathways - September 27^[8]
The Tragically Hip, Up to Here (expanded 35th anniversary reissue) - November 8^[80]

V

Vision Eternel, Echoes from Forgotten Hearts - February 14^[81]^[82]
Leif Vollebekk, Revelation - September 27^[83]

W

Ruby Waters, What's the Point - May 31^[8]
Rick White and The Sadies, Rick White and the Sadies - June 7^[8]
Charlotte Day Wilson, Cyan Blue - May 3^[84]^[85]
Donovan Woods, Things Were Never Good If They're Not Good Now - July 12^[86]

Y

Yoo Doo Right, The Sacred Fuck - March 15
Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Fuckin' Up - April 26^[87]

Deaths

January 17 - Serge Laprade, singer and radio broadcaster^[88]
February 17 - Greg "Fritz" Hinz, drummer (Helix)^[89]
March 12 - Russ Wilson, bass guitarist (Junkhouse)^[90]
April 27 - Jean-Pierre Ferland, singer-songwriter^[91]
May 29 - Cayouche, singer-songwriter^[92]

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