Lennie Gallant

Recognized by his peers as one of Canada’s best performing songwriters,
Lennie Gallant has released thirteen albums (10 in English and 3 in
French) of original songs which have won him a host of awards and
nominations from the JUNOs, Les Prix Eloizes, and The East Coast Music
Awards, including 2017 ECMA Entertainer of the Year. His double CD of
the 22 songs from his multimedia hit production, Searching For Abegweit,
which ran for 173 shows, also won him an ECMA. He was named
Canadian Folk Artist of The Year for 2016 and his song Peter’s Dream was
voted one of the Top Ten East Coast Songs of All Time and was inducted
into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.


A recipient of the Order of Canada, Lennie is an international touring artist,
who has performed all over the continent, in Europe, for the troops in
Afghanistan, and at the XXI Winter Olympics. He has toured with
Symphony Nova Scotia, Symphony New Brunswick, and with Symphony
PEI. His songs have been covered by numerous artists including Jimmy
Buffett, The Rankins, and Measha Brueggergosman and have appeared in
feature films and TV shows. One of his albums, When We Get There, even
went up to the international space station with Canadian Astronaut Julie
Payette (now the Governor General of Canada) for the crew to enjoy and
orbited the planet 248 times. How about that for high rotation!


Lennie Gallant has been involved in numerous charity events, and he
recently received the PEI Red Cross Humanitarian of the Year Award for
his work and support of many worthwhile causes.