Profile of Doug Gallant

Biography

Doug Gallant's On Track column runs every Friday featuring reviews of the latest CD's and music DVD's. He is also a reporter with The Guardian.

All articles of Doug Gallant

• Confederation Plays find new home
  The Confederation Centre of the Arts is the new home of the Confederation Players. Jessie Inman, CEO of Confederation Centre, announced Monday ...
• Rising to another level
  I don't remember the first time I really listened to Dennis Ellsworth.It could have been at a Rude Mechanicals show at ECMA 2004 in St. John's.It ...
• New life for Richmond Street
  There’s a refrigerator sitting on Richmond Street. But it’s not just any refrigerator. Like the street it sits on, this refrigerator is ...
• A musical fusion
  The traditional music of Cape Breton is near and dear to the heart of fiddler Colin Grant.The jigs and reels, strathspeys and slow airs he ...
• Three-car crash sends three to hospital
  Charlottetown Police Services are investigating a three-car collision on the Hillsborough Bridge Sunday night that sent three people to the Queen ...
• ECMA honours behind the scenes professionals
  MONCTON – The East Coast Music Association honoured the industry professionals who toil behind the scenes today with the presentation of several ...
• ECMA weekend kicks off with smokin' sets in the...
  MONCTON — Few people were more surprised by singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan’s win at the ECMAs Thursday for folk recording of the year than ...
• Catherine MacLellan shines at ECMAs
  MONCTON, N.B. — What has already been a very good year for singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan just got better. MacLellan was honoured here ...
• Man to run Thursday to honour Terry Fox
  A city man will run from Borden-Carleton to Charlottetown Thursday as part of a nationwide project to increase awareness about Terry Fox and his ...
• East Coast musicians, fans off to Moncton
  The music industry will descend on Moncton en masse this week as the Hub City plays host to the East Coast Music Awards for the first time ...
• Words of Woody Guthrie given new life in 100th...
  On Oct. 3, 1967 the world lost one its greatest singer-songwriters, when Woody Guthrie succumbed to Huntington's Disease.Guthrie was just 55 ...
• Still plenty of thrill in the music of B.B. King
  Be thankful there’s no mandatory retirement in music. At 86, B.B. King is still taking his show on the road, playing for enthusiastic audiences ...
• Punch Brothers feeling it with release of new album
  Since the release of their eponymous debut album in 2008, the Punch Brothers have developed a reputation for delivering jaw-dropping performances ...
• Canada Post routes changing
  Canada Post is making changes to mail delivery in Charlottetown.Starting Monday letter carriers will be delivering those letters, cards and ...
• Making progress
  Fact of life.Good records sometimes slip through the cracks.It's unfortunate, but with the sheer number of new releases that see the light of day ...
• Tasty new CD by the Carolina Chocolate Drop
  String band music.The image that these three words is likely to conjure up for some people reading these musings is that of eccentric old folks ...
• Man who crashed van into QEH planned to kill anyone...
  A bizarre incident at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital last month in which a 64-year-old Johnstons River man crashed his van through the front doors ...
• Farmer in court for using tractor against sheriff's car
  Presentation of evidence began Tuesday in provincial court in Charlottetown in the case of a Queens County blueberry farmer charged after he used ...
• Still strong after more than 40 years
  It has been 42 years since Santana, then essentially unknown outside of its base of operations in San Francisco, walked on stage at the Woodstock ...
• A debut album that’s sure to delight
  The apple never falls far from the tree.Like father, like son.He's a chip off the old block.Dylan Guthro is bound to hear those tired, old ...
• Back to her roots
  I remember the first time I heard Natalie MacMaster play as if it were yesterday.It was in Halifax, 1998, during the East Coast Music ...
• Man dead following industrial accident
  An industrial accident in Charlottetown this afternoon has claimed the life of a 46-year-old Belfast area man.Charlottetown Police Services were ...
• A special year of music for the Doors
  This year is the self-proclaimed year of the Doors.And to mark the occasion the surviving members of the iconic rock band and their associated ...
• Living the Rock 'n' Roll dream
  Over 100 million albums sold. Sold out concerts in more than 40 countries. An audience that spans three generations. It's the stuff rock'n'roll ...
• The Little Willies make a big noise on second album
  In 2003, Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and keyboard player Norah Jones and four friends, all of whom were pursuing musical projects of ...
• Islanders keen to alert police
  Statistics released Wednesday by P.E.I. Crime Stoppers indicate the number of tips received about criminal activity in the province has ...
• The definitive Queen documentary
  Queen.They were glamorous.They were outrageous.They were controversial.At one point in time, they were unquestionably the biggest band in the ...
• Jann Arden uncovers some classics in Uncover Me 2
  In 2007, singer-songwriter Jann Arden surprised her fans by releasing an album comprised solely of cover versions of some of her favourite songs ...
• Music P.E.I. week has begun
  One of the biggest weeks of the year for the music industry in this province begins this weekend with a celebration of one of P.E.I.'s most ...
• Bomb threat causes mall evacuation
  Confederation Court Mall was evacuated at lunchtime today after someone telephoned to say there was a bomb planted in the building.Employees of ...