Neil Young will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Class of 2017, their first class of inductees since 2011. Young joins Bruce Cockburn, Beau Dommage, and Stéphane Venne.
"I'm very enthusiastic about this because having the Hall of Fame in the SOCAN family was my idea when I saw that the old Hall of Fame was going nowhere," SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste told Billboard. "I was really happy that [music publisher and CSHF founder] Frank Davies reached out to me. Fantastic. I believe that we have so much to celebrate, both in terms of the current success of our young class of members but also great Canadians that have made cultural contributions to Canada, of course, but to the world. So, very excited about this."
The induction ceremony will finally return September 23 at Toronto's Massey Hall, after performing rights organization Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) purchased it in late 2011.
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