Feb 1
1969: Joni Mitchell plays Carnegie Hall in New York for the first time.

1982: Late Nite with David Letterman premiers on NBC. Bandleader of The World's Most Dangerous Band is Paul Shaffer.

1988: Rush plays in Phoenix. AZ. The show is taped for the SHOW OF HANDS double live album.

2005: Originally released in 1993, Jann Arden's TIME FOR MERCY is re-released on CD.

Feb 2
1981: Nash The Slash releases CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.

Feb 3
1973: "You Turn Me On Like A Radio" by Joni Mitchell enters the charts at #25.

1988: Their show in San Diego, CA is taped and used for Rush's A SHOW OF HANDS double live album.

Feb 4
1945: John Crone, tenor sax player for Bobby Kris & The Imperials is born in Toronto.

1985: Bruce Cockburn begin a five week tour of Czechoslovakia, Austria, and East and West Germany.

2006: Leonard Cohen and Anne Murray (Legacy Award) are inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. 26 songs are also inducted, including "Sugar Sugar," by Andy Kim (recorded by The Archies) and "Put Your Hand In The Hand," by Gene MacLellan.

2006: Bubbles from The Trailer Park Boys appears on stage with Trooper at the Park Bunny Ball, in Vancouver, BC.

Feb 5
1955: New York radio station WNEW announces the winners of its annual popularity poll: Toronto's Crew-Cuts win the honour, along with Americans Perry Como, Patti Page and Ray Anthony.

1981: SCTV's Andrea Martin (& Quark's mother on Star Trek DS9) hosts the Juno Awards in Toronto.

1982: Saga play the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle in Munich, West Germany as part of the sets that become the IN TRANSIT lp.

Feb 6
1972: Lighthouse perform in New York City at Carnegie Hall. The show becomes LIGHTHOUSE LIVE, the first Canadian lp to sell 100,000 copies in Canada.

2007: Barenaked Ladies release their new album, BARENAKED LADIES ARE MEN.

Feb 7
1981: Rush releases MOVING PICTURES.

1993: Neil Young performs in Los Angeles. The acoustic set turns into the 14 track UNPLUGGED lp later that year.

1995: Trooper re-releases their 1980 self-titled lp through MCA on CD in Japan.

2006: LOOK IN LOOK OUT by Chilliwack is re-released in the US on CD.

Feb 8
1953: Robin Bachman, of Brave Belt and BTO is born in Winnipeg.

2005:Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman are inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in Toronto.

Feb 9
1976: Composer Percy Faith dies of cancer in LA at the age of 67.

Feb 10
1985: Everyone who is anyone in Canadian music converges on Toronto's Manta Sound Studios to record the vocal tracks to "Tears Are Not Enough." The song was written to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief and domestic food banks.

2004: KING OF BROKEN HEARTS by Goddo is released in the US on Bullseye Canada.

2006: Out of print since it hit the shelves less than 2 years, Anvil's BACK TO BASICS is released on FAB Records.

Feb 12
1914: Lorne Greene, of Bonanza and Battlestar Galactica is born in Ottawa, ON. He also records the single, "Ringo." He would also go on to work with the CBC and open an acting school. Some of his students included Leslie Nielsen and James Doohan.

1953: Roy Forbes (Bim), also of UHF is born in Dawson Creek, BC.

Feb 13
1955: Scott Smith, bassist for Loverboy is born.

1988: During the opening ceremonies of the '88 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Liona Boyd performs "Hands of Man," the first song to feature her vocals, along with Rik Emmett of Triumph and Rush's Alex Lifeson. Gordon Lightfoot and Ian Tyson also perform together, doing "Four Strong Winds" and "Alberta Bound."

2001: Colin James rocks The Lyric in Kitchener, ON.

Feb 14
1972: LA Mayor Sam Yorty declares the day "Steppenwolf Day," on the occasion of the group's anounced retirement, which actually is nothing more than a brief hiatus, as the group returns a few years later with a new lineup, still featuring John Kay.

1974: Bob Dylan and The Band wrap up their current tour at the Los Angeles Forum, which includes cameos by Neil Young, among others. Audience member Ringo Starr says it's the best concert he's ever attended. The show is partially used for Dylan's BEFORE THE FLOOD lp.

1982: Saga sell out a 12,000 seat concert hall in Budapest as part of their tour, which featured the Munich, Germany date make it to their live lp later that year, IN TRANSIT.

1984: Blue Rodeo make their concert debut in Toronto at The Rivoli.

Feb 15
1954: Keyboards master Rick Lamb of Hellfield and A Foot In Cold Water is born.

1975: Rush release the FLY BY NIGHT lp.

1975: Joni Mitchell hits #24 with "Big Yellow Taxi".

1989: Celebrating the release of their second album, Blue Rodeo is showcased at Soho's Borderline Club in London, England.

Feb 16
1945: Glenn Gould auditions for school, tinkling the ivory as the Toronto Conservatory of Music.

1977: The Juno Awards are held in Toronto. David Steinberg is host.

Feb 17
1970: Performing at London's Royal Albert Hall, Joni Mitchell announces she is retiring from live performance. She changes her mind within the year.

Feb 18
1953: Robin Bachman of Brave Belt and BTO is born in Winnipeg, MB.

1956: The Diamonds break the charts for the first time, with "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?"

Feb 19
1946: Paul Dean, of Loverboy and Streetheart is born in Vancouver, BC.

1991: NIGHT RIDE HOME, Joni Mitchell's 16th album, is released.

Feb 20
1941: Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, who wrote Donovan's anti-war protest "Universal Soldier" and co-wrote the not-so-angry "Up Where We Belong," is born on the Piapot Reserve in Saskatchewan, near Craven.

1998: Bob McBride, vocalist for Lighthouse dies following complications from substance abuse.

2005: Colin James and The Tragically Hipboth do a cameo on Corner Gas.

2006: Edsel Records releases a pair of early David Clayton Thomas solo albums together in one package, his self titled debut and TEQUILA.

Feb 22
1971: Formerly called the RPM Gold Leaf Awards, the first Juneau Awards is held in St Lawrence Hall in Toronto. They were named after Pierre Juneau, the first head of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission. Juneau was instrumental in establishing Canadian content regulations for broadcasters, to promote Canadian artists. That name became shortened for the awards to Juno the following year. Gordon Lightfoot wins Top Male Vocalist. Anne Murray wins her first of nine for Top Female Vocalist. Guess Who win for top group, and Pierre Juneau is awarded "Music Industry Man of the Year" award.

1982: Saga are in Copenhagen, Denmark for the first of three sold out shows. They become part of the IN TRANSIT lp.

Feb 23
1970: The RPM Gold Leaf Awards, the first Canadian music industry awards, are held for the first time in St Lawrence Hall in Toronto. Country singer Diane Leigh was voted Top Country Female Artist, and was the first singer to accept a Canadian music award.Andy Kim takes home the award for Top Male Vocalist.

2003: A collection of Domenic Troiano's greatest hits, including those with Mandala, Bush, Black Market and The James Gang, as well as solo material is released as part of CBS' Millenium Collection series.

Feb 24
1975: Ashley MacIsaac is born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

2004: Chilliwack's I WANNA BE A STAR is re-released in the US.

Feb 25
1958: Saga's Jim Gilmour is born this day in Carfin, Scotland.

Feb 26
2002: Alanis Morissette releases her third chart-topping album Under Rug Swept, featuring the single "Hands Clean."

Feb 27
1994: Rush performs at The Miami Arena in Miami, FL. The show is taped and winds up on DIFFERENT STAGES.

1996: Triumph's "King Biscuit Flower Hour" performance from Cleveland, OH, 1981 is released on CD.

1999: Rush is recognized with the Order of Canada, this country's highest civic honour at a ceremony on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Feb 28
1969: The Band makes its live debut at the Winterland in San Francisco.

1972: The Juno Awards are held in Toronto, at The Inn In The Park. The awards were named 'Juno' for the first time, the previous year as 'The Juneau Awards.' Gordon Lightfoot wins the Top Male Vocalist for the second straight year.

1978: David Steinberg hosts the Juno Awards for the second and last time, in Toronto.

1995: Jann Arden releases LIVING UNDER JUNE.

1996: "Turbulent Indigo," Joni Mitchell's seventeenth album, wins her a grammy for Best Pop Album at the 38th annual ceremony.

2008: She's been concentrating on jazz the last six years, but Lee Aaron returns to her rock roots (other than a couple of shows in '06) when she plays Redcliff, Alberta. Also on the bill are The Headpins.