Music from the year 2017 is what we are listening to this week. This was the year I became a Polaris Music Prize juror and I remember being introduced to so many of these albums. So much great music for me to take in and enjoy. I hope you get some enjoyment out of the playlist.

Some of the tracks may not be familiar to you but the artist is. Some artists we just may not have been aware of at the time. Each month working on these playlists, I have found francophone artists that I didn’t know of then but am loving now. So while it is a look back at 2017 there may still be some new to you tracks along with the old favourites. Embrace them all!

We started with 2006 in March/2018 because I planned to make this a monthly playlist and there are 12 months in a year and 2006 was 12 years ago. We are now winding up this theme with 2017 in March/2019. We shall see where we go from here. It has been fun to check back and see what music we still love and what music we once loved but have moved on from and to find out what we missed along the way. Thanks for joining me on the trip.

2017 brought us great albums from some of our favourite Canadian artists like The Barr Brothers, Leif Vollebekk, Walrus, Weaves, Jessie Reyez, Do Make Say Think, Esmerine and so many more. I put the tracks on the playlist alphabetically according to artist instead of any flow order and have found it best to listen to these on shuffle. Enjoy!