singers

The great singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot turns 80 today and is apparently celebrating with a charity gig in his hometown of Orillia, Ontario. The list of classic songs that have come from his pen goes on for a while: "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "If You Could Read My Mind","Canadian...

Another musical great is gone. We've known since 2011 that country and pop legend Glen Campbell was battling Alzheimer's. He lost today. I am not a country fan in general, but Glen was one of those singer-songwriters who defies genre. His songs are solid, powerful short stories set to music. As...

Okay, I'm not literally expecting us to come up with 150 Canadian songs/pieces of music. But the more the merrier. This country has produced a lot of great musicians, singers, composers, and songwriters. So, I figured one way to honour Canada Day here would be to get a thread going for...

I have raved on here many times about the a capella pop group Pentatonix. They are, quite simply, fabulous. Not all great singers, but they work so well together they are effectively one five-part harmonized voice. A sample (one of my favorite of their original songs): However, change has...