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Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox musical artist CANO, a Canadian progressive rock band of the 1970s and 1980s, was the most successful popular musical group in Franco-Ontarian history.<ref name="CANO">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>"Francophones plan talent contest". The Globe and Mail, May 10, 1984.</ref>

OriginsEdit

CANO evolved out of the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario (Artists' Cooperative of Northern Ontario), an artists' collective established in Sudbury, Ontario, in 1970.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=thatband>Kuzyk, Jane. "That Band from Sudbury." The Globe and Mail, November 30, 1977.</ref> The cooperative was responsible for developing many of the current cultural institutions of the city's Franco-Ontarian community. The Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Prise de Parole publishing house, Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, La Nuit sur l'étang and CANO-Musique, as the band was then called, all evolved out of projects launched by artists associated with the cooperative.<ref name=thatband />

While based in Sudbury, the cooperative bought an abandoned 320-acre farm in Earlton that became an artists' haven and buffalo ranch.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Musical groupEdit

The group consisted of singer-guitarists André Paiement and Rachel Paiement, violinist Wasyl Kohut, guitarists Marcel Aymar and David Burt, pianist Michel Kendel, bassist John Doerr and drummer Michel Dasti. The band was formed in the fall of 1975,<ref name=thatband /> and performed its first concert on December 1 at La Slague in Sudbury.<ref>"CANO interview with David Colin Burt", ProgArchives.com</ref><ref name=ld>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The band also recorded its debut album, Tous dans l'même bateau, released in 1976. The production studio was a converted building on the Paiements' farm near Sturgeon Falls.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The band performed both traditional French folk songs and original material by Aymar, the Paiements and Robert Dickson. With its third album, Eclipse, CANO began performing English-language songs as well;<ref>Johnson, B. Derek. "On Death, Utopian Socialism, and Gang's Haunting Echoes," Globe and Mail, Oct. 11, 1978, p. A3</ref> the fourth album, Rendezvous, consisted predominantly of English songs as the band made a bid for success in the larger English-language market.<ref name=roots>"CANO leaves roots behind in pursuit of masses". Toronto Star, March 21, 1980.</ref> The band was most successful on francophone pop charts in Quebec and France, but had notable hits in English Canada as well.<ref name="CANO"/> Eclipse and Rendezvous, notably, both charted on CFNY,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> while the singles "Rebound" and "Carrie" reached No. 97 and No. 78 respectively on the RPM charts in 1979 and 1980.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1978, the band was shaken by the suicide of André Paiement.<ref name=roots /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

The following year, the band was profiled in the National Film Board documentary, CANO, Notes on a Collective Experience.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Spirit of the North, a compilation issued in 1980, traced CANO's integration of pop, rock and jazz influences into what was originally a folk-based style.<ref name=roots /> In the same year, some of the band's music appeared in the documentary film, A Wives' Tale (Une histoire de femmes), on the 1978 Inco strike in Sudbury.

Following the departure of Rachel Paiement in 1980, the band released the album, Camouflage, under the band name Masque; it was the band's only fully English-language album.<ref name=attention>Niester, Allan. "Masque is still a band that merits attention". The Globe and Mail, May 15, 1982.</ref> Kohut died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1981, just weeks after the album's release, and was replaced by Ben Mink.<ref name=attention /> By this time, the band was based in Toronto.

CITY-TV used a track by the band as its theme song for Great Movies in the 1980s,<ref name=bravo>"Bravo CANO! Local fans revel in revitalized band". Toronto Star, February 14, 1985.</ref> and the band also recorded music for several National Film Board productions.<ref name=bravo />

In 1984, Aymar, Burt, Mink, Mary Lu Zahalan and Rob Yale recorded the band's final album, Visible,<ref name=bravo /> and played concerts in Ontario, Quebec, and Japan before disbanding.

RevivalEdit

In 2003, Universal Music Canada released a CANO greatest hits compilation as part of its 20th Century Masters series.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The band released Rendezvous on the iTunes platform in summer 2008 and Eclipse in spring 2009.

CANO gave a reunion show at the 2010 La Nuit sur l'étang festival, with Monique Paiement, André and Rachel's younger sister, on lead vocals.<ref>"CANO reunites at La Nuit sur l'étang". Northern Life, March 30, 2010.</ref>

Celebrating 35 years of CANO in 2011, Aymar, Burt, Doerr, Dasti and Kendel reunited again in June 2011 for a series of concerts in Ottawa, North Bay, Sturgeon Falls and Kapuskasing, with Michel Bénac of Swing, Monique Paiement, Andrea Lindsay and Stéphane Paquette as supporting musicians.<ref name=ld/> The Ottawa concert was recorded for broadcast on TFO.<ref name=ld/>

LegacyEdit

CANO was involved in the creation of two music festivals in Sudbury, the bilingual folk festival Northern Lights Festival Boréal and the Franco-Ontarian cultural festival La Nuit sur l'étang.<ref name=thatband /> Both festivals continue to operate today.

In 2021, two classic CANO songs from the band's first album, André Paiement's "Dimanche après-midi" and Marcel Aymar's "Baie Sainte-Marie," were inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite interview</ref><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

DiscographyEdit

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  • 1981 - Camouflage (as Masque)
  • 1985 - Visible
  • 2003 - The Best of CANO (20th Century Masters)

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