Allan Dewar is part of a musical family from Ohio, Nova Scotia and began playing traditional music at an early age. While he has taken up multiple musical instruments, his preference is piano. Over the years traditional music has taken him throughout the world performing for festival and theatre audiences with many great fiddlers including Shelly Campbell, Troy MacGillivray, Jerry Holland, Dougie MacDonald, Natalie MacMaster, and many others. His core interest, though, is to play for dances and ceilidhs. Allan has worked in the Cape Breton cultural sector for decades and most recently has pursued a new career at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.