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John Allan Cameron CM (16 December 1938 - 22 November 2006) was a Canadian folk singer, known as "The Godfather of Celtic Music" in Canada.[1] He was noted for performing traditional music on his twelve string guitar. John Allan released his first album in 1968 . He has released 10 albums and was featured on national television. He is the recipient of the East Coast Music Award's Lifetime Achievement Award. He received the Order of Canada in 2003.[2] Image File history File links JohnAllanCameron. ...
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Cameron was the first Canadian artist to reach national and international success performing traditional East Coast Celtic folk music, and has been hailed as an influence and a trailblazer by artists such as The Barra MacNeils, Natalie MacMaster, The Rankin Family and Ashley MacIsaac. The term Celtic music encompasses Irish traditional music and traditional musics of Scotland; Cape Breton Island and Maritime Canada; Quebec; Wales; the Isle of Man; Northumberland (northern England); France); Cornwall; and Galicia (northwestern Spain). ...
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Natalie MacMaster (born 1973) is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
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Biography
Cameron was born in Inverness County, Nova Scotia[3][4]. He moved to Ottawa, Ontario in 1957 where he became an ordained Roman Catholic priest through the Order of the Oblate Fathers. But in 1964, a few months after ordination, Cameron obtained a dispensation from the church to pursue studies in education at St. Francis Xavier University, and eventually a career in music.[4][5] Inverness County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ...
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He was host of two Canadian television series. The first was the Montreal-produced John Allan Cameron on CTV from 1975 to 1976.[6] He would return to national television on CBC with the Halifax-produced The John Allan Cameron Show which enjoyed a longer run from 1979 to 1981.[4][7] CTV is Canadas largest privately owned English language television network. ...
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Besides his numerous television and concert appearances, he performed at the Grand Ole Opry in 1970.[4] The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, and televised on Great American Country network. ...
In January 2005, Cameron was diagnosed with leukemia.[4] Several benefit projects such as concerts and a tribute CD were produced to support costs resulting from his treatment of this cancer.[3] Leukemia (or leukaemia; see spelling differences) is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal proliferation of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). ...
On November 22, 2006, Cameron died of bone cancer in Toronto.[8] November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Discography - Here Comes John Allan Cameron (1968)
- The Minstrel of Cranberry Lane (1969)
- Get There by Dawn (1972)
- Lord of the Dance (1973)
- Weddings, Wakes & Other Things (1976)
- Fiddle (1978)
- Freeborn Man (1979)
- Good Times (1987)
- Wind Willow (1991)
- Classic John Allan (1992, double CD)
- Glencoe Station (1996)
- Getting Dark Again (1996, video)
Footnotes - ^ Moll, Michael (July 1999). Music Traditions in Cape Breton. Folk World. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ Order of Canada citation: John Allan Cameron. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ a b Quill, Greg (20 May 2006). John Allan Cameron made Celtic cool. Toronto Star/Cape Breton Live Radio. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ a b c d e Guy, Greg (17 May 2005). Honouring John Allan. Halifax Herald/Cape Breton Music. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ Connors, Chris. Concert for John Allan Cameron celebrates a life in Celtic music. Cape Breton Post/Cape Breton Music. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ Wedge, Pip (February 2003). John Allan Cameron. Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ John Allan Cameron listing. Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ CBC News. "John Allan Cameron: Celtic 'godfather' dies", CBC, 22 November 2006. Retrieved on 2006-11-22.
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