Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

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DAVE GALLANT Dave Gallant comes from a musical family. His dad was a fine guitar player and singer and several uncles also played an assortment of instruments from guitar to fiddle and mandolin. The music was mainly country and blue grass with the Celtic flavour of the Maritimes thrown in for good measure. Dave spent his youth growing up in Montreal during the late 50' and early 60's where he first learned to play Ventures tunes. Soon he was turned on to the rock and roll sounds of Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Everley Brothers. Then, along came the Beatles and that changed everything inspiring Dave's high school band "The Beatmakers". During his last year of high school, Dave discovered Bob Dylan and soon was performing in some of the coffee houses around Montreal, most notab... more...