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Star's Canyon to perform in Edmonton
Edmonton
Journal
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Canadian country singer George Canyon, runner-up in the Nashville
Star talent contest, will play Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium
on Monday, Oct. 2.
Canyon,
just one month shy of his 36th birthday, divides his career
between Nova Scotia and Alberta. He has been a police officer,
a slaughterhouse beef inspector and a shipping receiver.
Until
he hit the reality-show circuit performing and finishing second
on CMT’s Nashville Star 2 in 2004, he was also a struggling
country music man.
Thanks
to his stand-out work on a show dominated by American performers,
Canyon’s career has taken off.
His
independently released single Good Day to Ride picked up substantial
airplay on Canadian country radio.
He
signed to Universal, had a No. 1 single on CMT, picked up a
Juno last year for country recording of the year for One Good
Friend and chalked up four Canadian Country Music Awards.
His
latest CD, Somebody Wrote Love, was released this year.
Fresh
off a sold-out cross-country tour last winter, Canyon is set
to grace Edmonton again with special guest Gord Bamford.
Tickets
go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.
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