(Toronto, August 30/2001): The Guess Who is to be inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame. The band, currently in the midst of a massive North American tour that brings them to Toronto's Molson Ampitheatre tonight and the Watershed II Festival in Walkerton on Sunday, are the first artists to receive the honour, which has traditionally gone to senior music industry executives. The presentation will take place during Canadian Music Week, and the group will perform at the Canadian Music Industry Awards in Toronto on February 28 next year when they receive the award. "The Guess Who have been trailblazers for Canada," said Neill Dixon, president of Canadian Music Week. "They've justly earned their reputation as Canada's greatest band. They truly are rock icons - and their popularity today, almost 40 years after they originally formed as Chad Allen and The Reflections in Winnipeg in 1962, is as deserved as it is remarkable." The band's long-time manager, Lorne Saifer, said: "We're all very excited about this award; it's a great honour to have been chosen as the first artists to be placed in the Music Industry Hall of Fame. Being recognized in your home land in this way, by our peers, is very special." The band, made famous by hits such as These Eyes, Undun and American Woman, was the first Canadian rock group to become famous across North America, and by the late '60s the band was a million-selling, hit-making act that was able to bump The Beatles off the top of the charts, and were playing for British royalty at The White House. After frontmen Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman built equally successful solo careers, the band reunited in 1999 to perform at the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg. Since then, the band has played sell-out performances in 24 Canadian cities, and is currently finishing a six-city Canadian tour, in addition to close to 50 American concerts. Canadian Music Week is Canada's largest annual music industry event; it takes place February 27 - March 3 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto, and includes two conferences, five awards shows and a music festival featuring over 250 bands in 25 venues. Order tickets Now.!