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Canada Day 2020 Top 10 Music Picks

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Michael Venus
June 8th, 2020

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For Canada Day, we invited 10 influential Canadian BIPOC and LGBTQ artists and personalities to give us their Top 10 Canadian music picks.

Jeanne Beker

@thejeannebeker

Love Over and Over – Kate & Anna McGarrigle
If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot
The First – Greg Wyard
Harvest Moon – Neil Young
When I Forget – Joey O’Neil
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Heaven – Bryan Adams
Sting of the Cactus – Ori Dagan
House – Ron Hynes
Fashion Victim – Rough Trade

photo: Carty

Michie Mee

facebook.com/Michiebadgyalmee

Jamaican Funk = Michie Mee
Don’t wanna be you Slave – Michie Mee ft Esthero
Over- Drake
Dream Warriors- Luidi
E-Z on the Motion- Ghetto Concept
Bacardi Slang – Kardinal Official
Let’s Ride – Chocolair
Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here- Deborah Cox
Oh Canada – Classified
Oh Canada – Exco Levi

photo: Caroline Azar

G.B. Jones

facebook.com/gb.jones.73

Comin’ Down – Jackie Shane
Heartbeat (It’s a Love Beat). – The DeFranco Family
Sun Goes By – Dr. Music
The Windmill – Five Shy
Beyond the Clouds – The Poppy Family
Moody Manitoba Morning – The Five Bells
Let Us Dance – Beverly Glenn Copeland
Rainy Windows – Bonnie Dobson
Follow Me – The Sugar Shoppe
Night Spinner – Jacqueline and Lindsay Morgan

photo: Max Abadian

Thierry-Maxime Loriot

@thierrymaximeloriot

Dead of Night – Orville Peck
Twisted Mind – Paupière
Hotel Delmano – Munya
Ad Claritatem Domine – Jean-Michel Blais
Tico Tico – Isabelle Boulay
Trouble in Paradise – Rufus Wainwright
Tangerine – LaF
TGV Sainte Foy – KNLO
Le nouveau départ – Alexandra Strélisky
Lovertits – Peaches

photo: Alejandro Santiago

Eric Kostiuk Williams

@kostiukwilliams

Sulk – TR/ST
Eso Que Tu Haces – Lido Pimienta
I Feel Cream – Peaches
Dazzler – Kids On TV
Song For Five and Six – Owen Pallett
Delete Forever – Grimes
You’re a Superstar – Love Inc
Black Velvet – Alanna Myles
Imperfections – Celine Dion
Any Other Way – Jackie Shane

photo: We Demand Productions

Mark Kenneth Woods

@mkwoods

Boyfriend – Tegan & Sara
The Path of Thorns (Terms) – Sarah McLachlan
Sweet Poison – Dragonette
Pour que tu m’aimes encore – Celine Dion
Shake Yer Dix – Peaches
Run Away With Me – Carly Rae Jepsen
My Moon, My Man – Feist
Powerless (Say What You Want) – Nelly Furtado
Calling All Angels – Jane Siberry feat. K.d. lang
All The Feelings – Kiesza

photo: Saad Al-Hakkak

Kamissa Ma Koïta

@what_else_phi_

Old Skool Love – Divine Brown
Seven Day Fool – Jully Black
Move Like a Mystic – Allie
Do The Thing Right – Zaki Ibrahim
Follow Me – Rochelle Jordan
BELIEVE IT – PARTYNEXTDOOR & Rihanna
Ghost Face – Brendan Philip
No Talk – River Tiber
Need It – KAYTRANADA ft Masego
You’re The One (feat. SYD) – KAYTRANADA

photo: Self Portrait

Jordan King

@jordankingarchive

Bitch – Allie X
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) – Arcade Fire
My Tenement – Jackie Shane
Echo Beach – Martha & The Muffins
Bye Bye Mon Cowboy – Mitsou
Dancer – Gino Soccio
Can’t Do Without You – Caribou
In The Morning – Junior Boys
Miss Chatelaine – KD Lang
Talk to Me – Peaches

photo: Self Portrait

Preston Buffalo

@prestonbuffalo

Drinking in La – Bran Van 3000
Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell
Salad Days – Mac Demarco
Brother – The Organ
Biker Shorts – Stink Mitt
My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
Maybe Tomorrow – Terry Bush
First Day of Spring – The Ghandarvas
Neighbourhood #1 (tunnels) – Arcade Fire
Someone who is cool – The Odds

photo: Jonathan Lefrançois

Christopher DiRaddo

@chrisdiraddo

Run With Us – Lisa Lougheed
Rodent – Skinny Puppy
Love, Love, Love – The Organ
Cash Out – Co/ntry
Mindphaser – Frontline Assembly
Paris – MSTRKRFT
He Follows Me – Frontperson
Ange de Ville – Lili Fatale
We Run – Strange Advance
Having An Average Weekend – Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet

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