1964 in Canadian music

Births

• 18 January – Jim Matt, country music singer.
• 18 January – Patrick Esposito Di Napoli, member of Les Colocs.
• 25 January – Andrew MacNaughtan, photographer and music video director.
• 30 January – Patricia Conroy, country music singer.
• 1 February – Dwayne Goettel, former member of Skinny Puppy.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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

Events

Albums released

• Lorne Greene, ''The Man''

Awards

• 28 December, the 1st RPM Awards are announced.

Festivals

• Mariposa Folk Festival was held at the Maple Leaf Stadium
• Miramichi Folksong Festival
• Montreal Festivals

Magazines and publications

• 24 February – RPM publishes first issue.

Music groups

• 3's a Crowd (band)
• Chai Folk Ensemble
• Jack London & The Sparrows
• The Mynah Birds

• CBC Symphony Orchestra
• The Crew-Cuts

Organisations

• Alberta Music Festival Association is established to coordinate local music competition.

Singles released

• "My Baby's Comin' Home" by Paul Anka

Songs

• Early Morning Rain, composed and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot.
• Mon Pays composed by Gilles Vigneault.
• Universal Soldier (song), written and recorded Buffy Sainte-Marie.
• You Were on My Mind, written by Sylvia Tyson.

Venues

• The Matador Club, a country-music venue, opens in Toronto.

Other

• 10 April – Glenn Gould retires from public performance in Los Angeles.

Deaths

• 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.