Cape Breton
Allie Bennett
Sydney Mines native Allie Bennett is in his 51st year in the Canadian music industry. He has toured Canada, the United States, Britain, Sweden, Australia, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. As a studio musician, Allie has worked on over 150 albums, and his name appears on over 1,000,000 units sold in Canada. He has worked with John Allan Cameron, Rita MacNeil, Stan Rogers, Murray McLauchlan, The Rankin Family, The Barra MacNeils, Mary Jane Lamond, Natalie MacMaster, Ashley MacIsaac, Ron Hynes, Bruce Guthro, Dave Gunning, Howie MacDonald, Raylene Rankin, Jimmy Rankin, and many more. Allie was Musical Director for the televised 1995 East Coast Music Awards and band leader for the Cape Breton Summertime Revue (1997, 1998). In 2005 he was presented with the ECMA’s Musicians Achievement Award. Allie has released two fiddle albums, It’s About Time (2004) and Full Circle (2013), and a vocal album, Second Circle (2026), which pays tribute to some of his favourite songwriters. Allie lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and teaches fiddle and guitar at his private music school and at the Halifax and Bedford Long & McQuade Lesson Centres. He continues to work as a studio musician and performs solo featuring vocals and guitar.
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