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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. 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.
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.

Biography

Cameron was born in Inverness County, Nova Scotia. 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.
He was a regular on Singalong Jubilee in the 1960s and he was later host of two Canadian television series. The first was the Montreal-produced John Allan Cameron on CTV from 1975 to 1976. 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.
Besides his numerous television and concert appearances, he performed at the Grand Ole Opry in 1970.

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)

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