1952: Dan Aykroyd of the Blues Brothers is born in Toronto.
1961: Country sensation Michelle Wright is born in Chatham, ON.
1975: Trooper releases their self-titled debut album.
1979: Filming wraps on "Carny". The film was conceived by and stars The Band\'s Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm, along with Jodie Foster and Elisha Cooke Jr.
1979: Blue Peter is at Larry\'s Hideaway in Toronto along with Blondie and Teenage Head. Celebrating her birthday, Debbie Harry performs "Bang A Gong" with Blue Peter during their set.
1980: "Oh Canada" is proclaimed our national anthem, officially.
1981: Steppenwolf bassist Rushton Moreve dies in a car crash in Los Angeles at the age of 32.
1991: Bootsauce releases THE BROWN ALBUM in the US.
1993: Kim Michell is among the performers at the Canada Day celebrations at Gimli, Man.
1992: In a ceremony in Paris,Roch Voisine is decorated as a Chevalier dans l\'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France\'s ambassador to Canada. Later that night he premieres a new song co-written with David Foster, who joins him for the first live performance of "I\'ll Always Be There."
1992: Kim Mitchell, The Tragically Hip, The Jeff Healey Band, Crash Test Dummies, Colin James, 54-40, Lee Aaron, Sass Jordan and Chrissy Steele all play St. John\'s, Ottawa and Vancouver in the same day, part of Molson\'s and MCA Concerts\' Great Canadian Party.
1996: Alanis Morissette sees "You Learn" top Canada\'s RPM singles chart.
2001: The Stampeders are among the performers at an all Canadian show in Dartmouth, NS. On their playlist is "Gator Road," the B-side to "Sweet City Woman" - a song they hadn\'t performed live in 30 years.
2008: Blue Rodeo plays on Parliament Hill in Ottawa as part of the Canada Day celebrations.
2010: The Edmonton Garrison plays host to A Rock & Roll Salute To Our Troops, featuring Carson Cole and The Flying Saucers during the all-day festivities.
2010: To celebrate 35 years since the release of their debut album, Trooper releases their greatest hits collection HITS FROM TEN ALBUMS.
2010: Canada Day celebrations in Estevan, Sask include Mike Braniff appearing as Captain Canada.
2010: Helix headline the Canada Day concert in Sudbury, Ont.
') if (month==6 && day==2) document.write('1999: Barenaked Ladies, along with R.E.M., Blondie, Marilyn Manson, and Metallica appear at the Oskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark.
2002: Rik Emmett appears in New York at the prestigious Bottom Line Nightclub for a sold-out solo acoustic show.
2005: Neil Young and Bryan Adams are among the Canadians performing during "Live 8," a festival designed to bring awareness to African poverty. That portion of the festival is seen in an Ontario corn field.
2007: A lawsuit is filed by The Rubinoos, claiming Avril Lavigne ripped off their 1979 song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" when she wrote her hit "Girlfriend."
2010: Brett Kissell plays in his own backyard when he opens up for Gretchen Wilson at the Energy Centre in Cold Lake, Alta.
') if (month==6 && day==3) document.write('1969: Kevin Hearn, keyboardist and percussinist for Barenaked Ladies is born.
1984: Kick Axe opens for Judas Priest for the first show of a seven week tour, starting in Harrisburg, PA.
2006: Nelly Furtado with Timbaland has her single "Promiscuous" top Billboard\'s chart.
2008: Prism releases the cd BIG BLACK SKY.
') if (month==6 && day==4) document.write('1944: Dave Konvalinka, bassist for Bobby Kris & The Imperials is born in Gimli, Manitoba.
1971: Andy Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies and Brothers Creeggan is born Andrew Burnett Creeggan in Scarborough, ON.
1977: April Wine backs up The Rolling Stones for a show in Buffalo, NY.
2006: Jane Siberry, now going by the name of Issa, gives a lecture on philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
2008: Frontiers Records releases the Harem Scarem album HOPE in Europe.
') if (month==6 && day==5) document.write('1946: Michael Monarch, guitarist for Steppenwolf is born.
1968: Harry Hess of Harem Scarem is born in Oshawa, Ont.
1992: Helix axeman Paul Hackman dies on the road in a tour bus accident.
1998: Harem Scarem releases the BIG BANG THEORY album worldwide with two different covers.
') if (month==6 && day==6) document.write('2002: Bobby Cameron begins a tour through eastern Canada tour with Long John Baldry in Toronto.
2003: Shania Twain is one of the featured performers in Hyde Park, London. The charity show raises $1.6 million for the Prince\'s Trust.
') if (month==6 && day==7) document.write('1966: Johnny Fay, drummer for Tragically Hip is born in Kingston, Ont.
1969: "Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat & Tears tops Canada\'s RPM singles chart.
1982: Jane Vasey, pianist for Downchild Blues Band dies of leukemia at age 33.
1992: The Stampeders reunite for the first time in 15 years during the Calgary Stampede.
1998: Barenaked Ladies release the album STUNT.
') if (month==6 && day==8) document.write('2007: Gordon Lightfoot headlines the venerable Mariposa Folk Festival, in his hometown of Orillia, ON.
2010: The Carpet Frogs play a sold out show at Richmond Hill\'s Mill Pond Park.
') if (month==6 && day==9) document.write('1969: "Baby I Love You" by Andy Kim tops Canada\'s RPM singles chart.
1974: Neil Young reunites with Crosby Stills & Nash at a show in Seattle, WA.
1996: Rush\'s Alex Lifeson is in the studios with I Mother Earth. He cameos on "Like A Girl" off the SCENEREY AND FISH lp.
') if (month==6 && day==10) document.write('1953: Rik Emmett is born in Toronto, as Rick Emmett. He would shorten the spelling of his first name after it was misspelled on Triumph\'s debut album anyway.
1956: Derry Grehan from Honeymoon Suite is born in St. Catherines, Ont.
1968: MUSIC FROM THE BIG PINK, The Band\'s evocative debut album recorded in a farm house near Woodstock, NY is released. It charts no higher than #30 but sells steadily and becomes considered a classic.
1971: "Signs" is released by Five Man Electrical Band. It goes on to top the Canadian charts and becomes the band\'s biggest single.
2001: Jann Arden releases BLOOD RED CHERRY.
') if (month==6 && day==11) document.write('1979: Los Angeles\' Bruin Theatre hosts the premiere of "Rust Never Sleeps", a concert film directed by Neil Young and featuring Crazy Horse.
2004: Three Canadian rocker chicks played the Prince\'s Trust Concert in London\'s Hyde Park, Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morisette and Nelly Furtado.
2008: Steven Page, singer for Barenaked Ladies, is arrested for cocaine possession in Syracuse, NY. He\'s held until a $10,000 bond is posted.
') if (month==6 && day==12) document.write('2007: Blue Rodeo headlines the Ottawa Blues Fest.
2008: Hedley makes their first appearance in Bonnyville, Alberta and play the Centennial Centre to the delight of thousands of screaming kids.
') if (month==6 && day==13) document.write('1955: Dennis Brisebois, one time member of several Drayton Valley, AB bands, including a precursor to One Horse Blue is born in Edmonton.
1977: Goddo enter Toronto\'s Sounds Interchange Studios to begin work on what would become the WHO CARES? album.
1985: Bryan Adams and Neil Young are the only Canadians to play at Live Aid at Philadelphia\'s JFK Stadium. There are none at the Wembley Arena portion in London.
1993: At the All-Star baseball game in Baltimore, Rush\'s Geddy Lee, a big Jays fan, sings "Oh Canada."
1999: Rush\'s Geddy Lee cameos on "The Road" on Euphoria\'s debut album.
1999: I Mother Earth release the BLUE GREEN ORANGE album.
2004: Goddo\'s self titled debut, AN ACT OF GODDO and WHO CARES? are all re-released on CD on Bullseye Canada, same time as the new album, KINGS OF THE STONED AGE.
') if (month==6 && day==14) document.write('1969: At the Mississippi River Rock Festival, The Band is joined onstage when their former boss, Bob Dylan, ruins three songs. He\'s jokingly introduced as "Elmer Johnson."
1975: Trooper releases their eponymous debut lp.
1979: Joni Mitchell\'s collaboration with jazz bass player and bandleader Charles Mingus, simply titled Mingus, is released half a year after his death.
1998: The Tragically Hip release PHANTOM POWER.
') if (month==6 && day==15) document.write('1984: Kick Axe perform for the first time in Nashville.
1993: Neil Young\'s UNPLUGGED CD and video are released. Recorded on February 7th in Los Angeles and first aired on MTV in March, it\'s an all-acoustic 14-song set.
1996: "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You" by Bryan Adams is atop Canada\'s RPM singles chart.
1997: Blue Rodeo releases TREMOLO.
2004: The Frank open for Default on the opening night of the 3-day BIG A$$ Border Bash in Cold Lake, AB.
2006: Local sensations Jawanamon play in Cold Lake, AB in front of hundreds of screaming fans, where they back up Tupelo Honey and Default.
') if (month==6 && day==16) document.write('1975: Neil Young\'s TONIGHT\'S THE NIGHT lp is released. It\'s inspired by and dedicated to a pair of musical acquaintances who died of drug overdoses. One look at the album cover tells anyone he might have been doing something those days himself.
2000: At the Craven Rock Fest in Craven, Sask, a new version of Fist is among the performers.
2004: Loverboy headlines the second night of the Big A$$ Border Bash in Cold Lake, AB. The Stampeders\'s encore is interrupted by a mistimed Air Force skydiver demo.
') if (month==6 && day==17) document.write('2002: Bobby Cameron ends a tour through eastern Canada tour with Long John Baldry in Halifax.
2004: BTO close out the 3-day BIG A$$ Border Bash in Cold Lake, AB. The show featured an all-Canadian lineup that coincided with the Air Show to commemorate CFB Cold Lake\'s 50th anniversary.
2007: Kim Mitchell releases AIN\'T LIFE AMAZING.
2008: Steven Page, singer for Barenaked Ladies appears in a Syracuse, NY court, where he fends a cocaine possession hearing.
2008: The Collectors\' two albums from 1967 and 1968 are re-released on CD.
') if (month==6 && day==18) document.write('1995: Neil Young forms Vapor Records with his manager, Elliot Roberts.
1949: Breen LeBoeuf, bassist for Motherlode and April Wine is born in North Bay, ON.
2007: Kim Mitchell holds a CD release party at Toronto\'s Hard Rock Cafe for AIN\'T LIFE AMAZING, his first new studio release since 1999.
2009: The JFR Project releases their debut, NO SECOND CHANCE.
') if (month==6 && day==19) document.write('1937: Canadian country singer George Hamilton IV is born.
1993: Loverboy began a two-week reunion tour in western Canada in Penticton, BC.
2008: Headpins put on another killer show in a dimly lit bar in Calgary.
2009: While playing a show in Brampton, Ont, Lighthouse drummer Skip Prokop develops chest pains and is taken to hospital as a precautionary measure. Thankfully, it turns out to be nothing more than a serious case of indigestion.
') if (month==6 && day==20) document.write('1974: Andy Kim releases "Rock Me Gently," his biggest single success.
2008: Despite criticism that he\'d be boo\'d off the stage, Paul McCartney sang in front of the masses at Plains of Abraham during Quebec\'s 400th anniversary. He wasn\'t booed, and he even attempted a few French phrases.
2010: The Toronto blues community gets together at the Hollywood on Queensway for a benefit show for Danny Brooks, who\'d recently gone in for heart surgery.
') if (month==6 && day==21) document.write('1967: The Amen return home to play in Sault Ste Marie for the first time since cutting their only 45 "Carnivals and Cotton Candy."
1972: Country singer Paul Brandt is born in Calgary as Paul Rennee Belobersycky.
1979: Triumph releases JUST A GAME.
1979: Mahogany Rush rock Oakland\'s Coliseum.
1986: Country legend Hank Snow returns to his home province of Nova Scotia. Premier John Buchanan proclaimed it "Hank Snow Week" during a luncheon in Halifax in his honour, with more than 500 people in attendance.
1988: The Parachute Club plays its final concert on July 21 at Toronto\'s Ontario Place. They would reform a few years later.
1990: Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell and The Band are among those performing in Roger Waters\' performance of The Wall, at the site of the Berlin Wall.
1991: Kevin Costner might not have been believable as Robin Hood, but Bryan Adams\' "Everything I Do" from the movie soundtrack tops Billboard\'s chart.
1999: MP3.com goes public with an IPO. The stock price soars, making spokesperson Alanis Morissette worth nearly $42 million. She later sells off a portion of her holding in the company after the stock\'s value dips.
2002: Avril Lavigne\'s "So Complicated" reaches number one on Billboard.
2005: Long John Baldry, the British blues legend who helped launch the careers of rock greats like Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, and later moved to Canada, died in a Vancouver hospital after a four-month battle with a chest infection. He was admitted several months earlier with respiratory problems.
2005: Merqury, a Queen tribute act featuring Canadian Johnny Zalytny headline The Great Canadian Patio Party in Cold Lake, AB with Thunderstruck, argued as Canada\'s best AC/DC knockoff.
') if (month==6 && day==22) document.write('1950: Ian Thomas is born in Hamilton, Ont.
1954: The Crew Cuts reached the top spot of the Billboard pop singles chart with "Sh-Boom", a song that many consider to be the premier forerunner of 1950s Rock and Roll. The tune stayed at the top for seven weeks.
1963: Neil Young\'s first band The Squires cut their first recording session in Winnipeg.
') if (month==6 && day==24) document.write('2009: Jeff Healey\'s first album after his death earlier that year is released - the live SONGS FROM THE ROAD.
') if (month==6 && day==25) document.write('1969: New York\'s Fillmore East is the scene as Neil Young appears with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time.
1987: Dan Hill releases "Can\'t We Try"
1994: Neil Young releases SLEEPS WITH ANGELS. The record\'s harder-edged sound nods to Seattle grunge-rockers and pays tribute to the late Kurt Cobain.
2008: 125 groups and artists take the stage at Pemberton, BC, just north of Whistler for the first ever three-day Pemberton Music Festival.
') if (month==6 && day==26) document.write('2005: Alanis Morissette releases JAGGED LITTLE PILL ACOUSTIC, marking the 10 year anniversary of the original release.
2008: The Trews and Tupelo Honey play the Bonnyville Centennial Centre. This is the first time The Trews have been there.
2008: Jann Arden headlines the tribute to Leonard Cohen concert, the lamely titled "The 2008 International Leonard Cohen Event" at Edmonton\'s Winspear Centre.
2008: Paul Anka marries his second wife, Anna Yeager on the island of Sardinia.
') if (month==6 && day==27) document.write('1974: Paul Anka releases "You\'re Having My Baby," a duet with Odia Coates.
1987: Triumph releases SURVEILLANCE.
1991: Bryan Adams tops Billboard\'s charts with "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" from the Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves soundtrack. It also becomes the first British chart topper by a Canadian.
2001: Bill Wade, drummer for Moxy dies of cancer.
2003: Doug & The Slugs perform a free outdoor concert at Sir Winston Churchill Park during Edmonton\'s Klondike Days.
2003: Shania Twain performs at Hutchinson Field in Chicago, her first concert in the United States since releasing her album UP. Amazingly, she still has a hot bod after having the kid, and the show becomes a live DVD.
') if (month==6 && day==28) document.write('1973: Watkins Glen Raceway in upstate New York hosts the world\'s biggest rock festival, known as Woodstock. Around 60,000 people watch The Band, as well as the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers and over a couple dozen other acts. Reportedly, there\'s lots of drugs.
1975: Bachman Turner Overdrive kick off their first Canadian tour, playing their first show ever in Regina, SK.
1979: Blue Peter is in London, Ont.\'s Southwest Studios, where they record TEST PATTERNS FOR LIVING.
1980: Rush and Max Webster are in Phase One Studios in Toronto to record "Battle Scar."
1992: Barenaked Ladies release their breakout album GORDON.
1983: Triumph releases NEVER SURRENDER.
1989: The Anne Murray Centre opens in her hometown of Springhill, NS.
2000: Chilliwack plays at Skyreach Centre in Edmonton during Klondike Days. The show is recorded and becomes part of the THERE AND BACK LIVE album.
2008: Aquarius Records re-releases Corey Hart\'s debut FIRST OFFENSE and its follow-up album BOY IN THE BOX.
') if (month==6 && day==29) document.write('2005: Lee Aaron releases her BEAUTIFUL THING disc.
2010: White Wolf reforms for a rare appearance as headliners during the Taste of Edmonton festival.
') if (month==6 && day==30) document.write('1944: Joe Mendelson, solo artist and co-founder of McKenna Mendelson Mainline is born Birrell Josef Mendelson in Toronto.
1960: Mike Cillis, one-time bassist for Sentinel is born in Toronto.
2003: Toronto hosts a one-day festival to revive the city\'s tourism industry following an outbreak of the SARS virus. Featured performers include Rush, along with Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Justin Timberlake, Guess Who, Sass Jordan and close to a dozen others. An estimated 450,000 people attend.
2009: Greg Ladanyi, president of Maple Jam Music Group and award winning producer of such artists as Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, Jackson Browne, and Jeff Healey, died in a Cyprus hospital after an on-stage accident caused severe head trauma.
') if (month==6 && day==31) document.write('1968: The Newport Pop Festival begins in Costa Mesa, California. 100,000 fans come out to hear Steppenwolf, along with over a dozen big hit artists of the day.
')