Eight contestants are chosen from video auditions and are given a Canadian song to cover and perform live.

The impression that Canadian songs are played only because they must be played "can make taking your success elsewhere a more difficult endeavor," he said.

"Something to Sing About" is a Canadian patriotic song by Oscar Brand.

She also arranged several Canadian songs and folk tunes for piano and solo voice.

Also that year, "New York City" was named the greatest Canadian song of all time in a reader poll by the music magazine Chart.

"The foremost name in Canadian song at the present day is that of Charles George Douglas Roberts," he declared.

"Red" placed at number eight on the greatest Canadian songs of all time in a 1996 poll by music magazine Chart.

In 2005, "Hallelujah" was named the tenth-greatest Canadian song of all time in Chart magazine's annual readers' poll.

All of the sets feature popular Canadian songs from the 1960s onward.

It was named the greatest Canadian song of all time in a 1996 poll by music magazine Chart.