Popular Music
Rock bands include The Weakerthans, The Guess Who, Tom Cochrane, The Watchmen, Wide Mouth Mason, Nickelback, The Rural Alberta Advantage and Chantal Kreviazuk.
Aside from country, pop and rock performers, the Prairie Provinces have produced singer-songwriters such as Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jann Arden, Neil Young, Eamon McGrath, Burton Cummings, Connie Kaldor, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Feist, Tegan and Sara, k.d. lang, Sierra Noble, Ian Tyson and Joni Mitchell, as well as folk acts such as Andrea Menard, Don Freed and Hart-Rouge.
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