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Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Adds Sam Roberts, Metric & More As 2024 Gala Performers

New inductees Sarah McLachlan and Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor will also perform at the September 28 event.

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The lineup of performers for this year’s Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) Induction Ceremony just got stronger. Announced as added to the list today (Aug. 29) are two of the most popular Canadian acts of the past two decades, Toronto rock band Metric and platinum-selling rock singer-songwriter Sam Roberts, as well as roots-rockers Terra Lightfoot and Matt Mays, Juno-winner Dominique Fils-Aimé, Quebec pop star Ariane Roy, indie rocker Adam Baldwin, the Glorious Sons’ lead singer Brett Emmons, La Zarra and Rafaëlle Roy.

At the Induction Ceremony at Massey Hall in Toronto on Sept. 28, they will join previously announced performers William Prince, Whitehorse, AHI, Dallas Smith, Tenille Townes and Gary LeVox of American country outfit Rascal Flatts, included in the bill via his band’s hit cover of “Life is a Highway,” written by new CSHF inductee Tom Cochrane.


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The other new inductees to enter the Hall of Fame this year are Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, Sarah McLachlan and Quebec singer Diane Tell. Cuddy, Keelor and McLachlan will also perform on the big night. They will be inducted by actor/comedian Pierre Brassard, member of Triumph Gil Moore and famed hockey broadcaster Ron MacLean. Read more about the 2024 honourees in this earlier Billboard Canada story.

The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame’s induction ceremony takes place every two years. 2022 honourees included Bryan Adams, and David Foster and Alanis Morissette (soon to be honoured with the Icon Award at the Billboard Canada Women In Music event in Toronto on Sept. 7).

Tickets for the CSHF Gala are available through Ticketmaster here.

The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) is a national and non-profit organization dedicated to honouring and celebrating Canadian songwriters and those who’ve dedicated their lives to the legacy of music. The CSHF also works to educate the public about these achievements, and to foster the next generation of songwriters through year-round initiatives and events. More info here.

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Mariah Carey kicks off the 2025 holiday season.
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Mariah Carey kicks off the 2025 holiday season.

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In This Season of Giving, Mariah Carey Shares Throwback Clip From 1994 Manifesting a Potential Christmas Classic One Day: ‘So Grateful’

MC only had to wait 25 years for her all-time holiday classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Mariah Carey is the undisputed Queen of Christmas. The pop singer has lorded over the holiday charts for the past six years with her ubiquitous wintertime classic “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” It seems hard to believe it now if you’ve been anywhere near a store since Halloween, but the yuletide favorite that was released in 1994 did not chart until 2000 and did not hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 until 2019, fully 25 years after it first hit our ears.

Now, as the holidays really ramp up, the best-selling Christmas song of all time in the U.S. seems like a no-brainer to top the charts every year. But on Tuesday (Dec. 9), MC gave thanks for how it all started in a throwback video she re-posted from a fan feed of an interview she did in 1994 in which she was asked if she hopes one of the songs from her first holiday album, that year’s Merry Christmas, might some day be as ubiquitous as such standards as “White Christmas” or “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.
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