Board of Directors
k.d. lang
Inducted in
10-time CCMA Award winner, 8-time JUNO Award winner, 4-time GRAMMY® winner, and Order of Canada recipient
Jason McCoy
Inducted in 2023
2-time CCMA ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’ and creator/frontman of the best-selling band in Canadian Country Music history, The Road Hammers
George Fox
Inducted in
9-time RPM Big Country Awards Winner and 3-time JUNO Awards Winner
Patricia Conroy
Inducted in
7-time CCMA Winner and 8 Career #1 Singles
Charlie Major
Inducted in 2019
3 JUNO Awards and 7 CCMA Awards
Terri Clark
Inducted in 2018
5-time CCMA Female Artist of the Year
Paul Brandt
Inducted in 2017
2016 JUNO Awards – Country Album
Murray McLauchlan
Inducted in 2016
Winner of 11 JUNO Awards
Dianne Leigh
Inducted in 2015
Canada’s First Top Female Country Singer
Wendell Ferguson
Inducted in 2014
CCMA Guitar Player of the Year (’95-’99)
Rita MacNeil
Inducted in 2013
3 Junos, 4 CCMA Awards, 11 ECMA Awards
Johnny Burke
Inducted in 2012
3 Top 10 hits for Columbia in 1967
Michelle Wright
Inducted in 2011
Junos ‘Country Female Vocalist’ in ’93 & ’95
Hal & Ginger Willis
Inducted in 2010
Hal and Ginger each won a BMI award
Joyce Smith
Inducted in 2010
100,000 copies of a single in the US
Wayne Rostad
Inducted in 2010
Host of CBCs “On The Road Again”
Fred McKenna
Inducted in 2010
Music Director for “George Hamilton IV” TV
Don Harron
Inducted in 2010
Received the Order of Canada
Ray St. Germain
Inducted in 2010
Received the Aboriginal Order of Canada
Eddie Eastman
Inducted in 2010
Host of “The Eddie Eastman Show”
Marie Bottrell
Inducted in 2010
CCMA ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ ’83 & ’84
Willie P. Bennett
Inducted in 2010
Junos ‘Best Roots Album’ in 1999
Donna & LeRoy Anderson
Inducted in 2010
Regulars on CBCs “Tommy Hunter Show”
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Inducted in 2009
Junos ‘Aboriginal Album of the Year’ in 2009
Prairie Oyster
Inducted in 2008
Six Juno Awards, 10 CCMA Awards
John Allan Cameron
Inducted in 2007
Received the Order of Canada
Terry Carisse
Inducted in 2006
Awards from BMI, PROCAN, SOCAN, CMPA
Gary Fjellgaard
Inducted in 2005
CCMA ‘Male Artist’ & ‘Song of the Year’
The Good Brothers
Inducted in 2004
8 Juno Awards for ‘Best Country Group’
Sylvia Tyson
Inducted in 2003
Received the Order of Canada
Anne Murray
Inducted in 2002
Inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame
Gordon Lightfoot
Inducted in 2001
Inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame
Colleen Peterson
Inducted in 2000
CCMA ‘Best Vocal Collaboration’ in 1996
Ronnie Prophet
Inducted in 1999
CCMA ‘Entertainer of the Year’ in 1984
Ray Griff
Inducted in 1998
SOCAN’S ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 2008
Family Brown
Inducted in 1997
7 Billboard hit singles in the 1980s
Myrna Lorrie
Inducted in 1996
Junos ‘Best Female Country Singer’ 1970-1971
Gene Maclellan
Inducted in 1995
Four Top 20 hits in Canada
Dick Damron
Inducted in 1994
Multiple Country Hits
Stu Phillips
Inducted in 1993
Invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1967
Bob Nolan
Inducted in 1993
One of the most prolific writers of traditional “western” country music with over 1,200 songs
Stu Davies
Inducted in 1993
Known as “Canada’s Cowboy Troubadour”
Ward Allen
Inducted in 1993
Founding member of The Happy Wanderers
Carroll Baker
Inducted in 1992
14 consecutive #1 hits, multiple CCMA Award Winner
The Rhythm Pals
Inducted in 1991
Recipient of three Juno Awards and the first Canadian singing group to appear on American TV
Gordie Tapp
Inducted in 1990
Received the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario
Ian Tyson
Inducted in 1989
Received the Order of Canada
Lucille Star
Inducted in 1987
The first Canadian female recording artist to appear on the Grand Ole Opry
Hank Snow
Inducted in 1985
Inducted into Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame 1989
Orval Prophet
Inducted in 1989
Among the first Canadian artists to record in Nashville
Marg Osburne
Inducted in 1989
Three top 20 singles as a solo recording artist
Don Messer
Inducted in 1989
Formed the Don Messer and the Islanders. “The Don Messer Show” began in 1959 and remained on national TV until 1969
Earl Heywood
Inducted in 1989
Known as “Canada’s No. 1 Cowboy Singer”
Dallas Harms
Inducted in 1989
Winner of multiple RPM Big Country Awards and CCMA Awards
King Ganam
Inducted in 1989
Nicknamed “Canada’s King of the Fiddle”
Al Cherney
Inducted in 1989
Won the Canadian Old Time Fiddlers’ contest for three consecutive years (1959-1961)
Charlie Chamberlain
Inducted in 2017
Inducted in 1989 Vocal work is featured on many of the albums released by Don Messer and His Islanders
“Papa” Joe Brown
Inducted in 1989
Career spanning over five decades starting with the Hillbilly Jewels, becoming a founding member of The Happy Wonderers, and Family Brown
The Mercey Brothers
Inducted in 1989
Won the Juno Award for “Best Country Group” four years running (1969-1972)
Maurice Bolyer
Inducted in 1989
Known as “Canada’s King of the Banjo”
Tommy Hunter
Inducted in 1984
Won the Juno Award for “Best Male Country Singer” for three consecutive years (1967-69). Received the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario
Wilf Carter
Inducted in 1984
Inducted into the Nashville Songwriter’s Association Hall of Fame in 1971
Gilles Godard
Inducted in 2024
President of Anthem Music Publishing Nashville; accomplished writer, publisher, artist, and producer, winning 2 CCMA Awards, 2 BMI Awards, and 4 SOCAN Awards
Brian Edwards
Inducted in 2023
Has represented some of the most notable names in Canadian Country Music, including Stompin’ Tom Connors, Tommy Hunter, Rita MacNeil, Charley Pride and more
Randall Prescott
Inducted in 2022
6-time CCMA Award Winner and producer and recipient of the 2021 Gary Slaight Music Humanitarian Award with CP Holiday Train. This induction marks Prescott’s second into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame
Randy Stark
Inducted in 2021
Past CCMA Director and President
Anya Wilson
Inducted in 2019
First independent female radio tracker in Canada
Jackie Rae Greening
Inducted in 2018
Multiple CCMA Award Winner and Alberta Country Music Hall of Fame Inductee
L. Harvey Gold
Inducted in 2017
Founded the Country Music Talent Fund
Paul Mascioli
Inducted in 2016
Past CCMA President and CCMA Award Winner
Elizabeth “Ma” Henning
Inducted in 2015
Inducted in 2015 Spearheaded the first televised production of the Canadian Country Music Awards
Ron Sakamoto
Inducted in 2014
Received the CCMA Talent Buyer or Promoter of the Year for 17 consecutive years, with the award later being renamed in his honour
Ed Harris
Inducted in 2013
2-time CCMA Record Industry Person of the Year
Ralph Murphy
Inducted in 2012
Received the Jo Walker-Meador International Achievement Award (CMA)
Bill Langstroth
Inducted in 2011
Grew the Don Messer Show to a nationally broadcast program
Tom Tompkins
Inducted in 2010
Juno Award winner and multiple CCMA Award winner
Barry Haugen
Inducted in 2009
First national “Country Music” promotion manager for a major record company
Brian Ferriman
Inducted in 2008
8-time winner of the CCMA Manager of the Year Award
Sheila Hamilton
Inducted in 2007
Past Executive Director of the CCMA
Brian Ahern
Inducted in 2006
Produced over 13 of Anne Murray’s albums
R. Harlan Smith
Inducted in 2005
Founded Royalty Records
J. Edward Preston
Inducted in 2003
Produced the famed Main Street Jamboree Show
Art Snider
Inducted in 2002
Producer, record company owner, tv network music conductor and record studio owner
Gary Buck
Inducted in 2001
Founder of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and former International Director for the CMA in Nashville
Leonard T. Rambeau
Inducted in 2000
Prominent artists’ manager who worked Anne Murray, John Allen Cameron, Frank Mills, Rita MacNeil and George Fox
Walt Grealis
Inducted in 1999
Created the Can Con system and appointed the Order of Canada
Bill Anderson
Inducted in 1998
Writer, producer and host of Big Country
Sam Sniderman
Inducted in 1997
One of the best-known music retailers in Canadian history, member of the Order of Canada 1976
Larry Delaney
Inducted in 1996
11-time recipient of the CCMA Country Music Person of the Year Award
Stan Klees
Inducted in 1995
Created the Juno Awards and the Big Country Awards
Hank Smith
Inducted in 1994
Founding President of the Academy of Country Music Entertainment
Frank Jones
Inducted in 1993
Honoured with the CMA’s President’s Award and the Connie B. Gay Founding President’s Award
Ted Daigle
Inducted in 1993
Member of the Canadian Association of Broadcaster’s Half Century Club
Gordon Burnett
Inducted in 1992
Helped build the Academy of Country Music and former CCMA president
A. Hugh Joseph
Inducted in 1991
Signed acts as Wilf Carter, Hank Snow, King Ganam, Stu Phillips and more
Ron Sparling
Inducted in 1990
Founding member of Family Brown and spearheaded Canada’s first Country Music Week in 1977
Don Grashey
Inducted in 1989
Recipient of the RPM Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame Award
Jack Feeny
Inducted in 1988
Named the CCMA’s first Executive Director in 1986
William Harold Moon
Inducted in 1984
Founding member of the CCMA
John Murphy
Inducted in 2009
Multiple winner of the MACA Broadcaster of the Year Award
Wes Montgomery
Inducted in 2008
CCMA Award winner and volunteer at charitable events across Alberta
Cliff Dumas
Inducted in 2007
The only Canadian broadcaster to win both a CMA and ACM Award for “Radio Personality of the Year” in the U.S.
Curley Gurlock
Inducted in 2006
A legend in Alberta country radio
Paul Kennedy
Inducted in 2005
5-time CCMA Music Directory of the Year Award winner and 3-time CCMA On Air Personality of the Year Award winner
Weird Harold Kendall
Inducted in 2004
Two decades at CKWX in Vancouver, BC as the Music Director
Art Wallman
Inducted in 2003
Awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 1989
Charlie Russell
Inducted in 2007
Created and broadcast one of Canada’s first weekly hit charts dedicated solely to country music
Fred King
Inducted in 2003
Accolades include Broadcaster of the Year in Canada, CCMA On-Air Personality of the Year and a Prairie Country Music Association Heritage Award
Elmer Tippe
Inducted in 2002
Recipient of 7 Country Music Broadcaster Awards
D’Arcy Scott
Inducted in 2002
Responsible for the first appearances in western Canada of Eddy Arnold, George Jones and Johnny Cash
Bev Munro
Inducted in 2002
Named Mr. DJ USA in 1959 at WSM in Nashville, TN