User:JohnSEllis

John S. Ellis, born in Manchester in the United Kingdom in the small suburb of Firswood near Stretford, and has spent most of his life in a circle of musical friends anyone would envy. Immigrating to Canada in the late fifties it didn’t take long to get started in this tuneful folly, with early works with Kevin Knelman, Peter McBurnie, Ron Clarkson, appearing on shows like CBC Take Thirty with hosts Adrian Clarkson (Lieutenant Governor of Canada) and Paul Soles... Leaving Rock Music for a while he tried Bluegrass with the group “The Orton Yahoos”, probably the name says it all. They released a début album “The Great Canadian Tragedy” recorded at Sound Path Studios in Oakville Ontario, with such memorable songs as “Trucker” (written by Orbit Starr) “The Rabbit” (written by Bruce Good of The Good Brothers) “Alberta Bound” (written by Gordon Lightfoot) and “Play It Again Sam” (written by Peter McBurnie). John met Peter Arthur (Engineer) at Sound Path Studios and subsequently collaborated on an album titled simply “John Ellis” which was released on the RCA VIK label, where it enjoyed airplay and recognition around the world. Receiving awards from Australia and a nomination from the RPM Award for “Best New Male Vocalist Of The Year” 1980, along with Gino Vannelli and Bryan Adams. John & Peter had four top ten hits from their first efforts with the song title “You Are" (penned by Arthur & Ellis) climbing to number two on Canadian the pop charts. Other song titles enjoying top ten chart action were “Eyes Of Love” “Captain Courageous” & Hypnotize Me” (also written by Arthur & Ellis). Currently John resides on Vancouver Island in Victoria where he lives with his beloved wife Luba Dvortsova who is also an accomplished classical pianist... After some years in the film industry John returned to his ever loved music and made countless albums with Will Millar from “The Irish Rovers”. Their first album together was “Lark In The Clear Aire”, consisting of old Irish melodies found before they were lost, making a very listenable instrumental CD. There was instant acknowledgement for their recordings and this kind of meditational music so both Will & John set to work on what would turn out to be a decade of laughter and tears onto more that eleven albums. “Celtic Revere”, “Season’s Of Enchantment”, “Rouges And Romancers”, The Irish Rovers First Thirty Years”, “The Keeper” (nominated for a Juno Award) “Celtic Evergreen” (Gold in New Zealand) and “Journey Of The Celts” (Winner of Best World Award US) just to name a few. Hopefully there are more music projects in the works for John & Will’s collaborating, in the meantime John is recording more songs, this time leaning towards a Folk Blues Jazz encounter, with a little bit of country thrown in for good measure. John says "I'm not through yet"…