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:''For other people named Brian Ahern, see the Brian Ahern navigation page'' Brian Ahern, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a Canadian record producer and guitarist. He has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including 12 albums for Anne Murray; 11 albums for Emmylou Harris; he also produced discs for Johnny Cash, George Jones, Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, Don Williams, Jesse Winchester, and Linda Ronstadt. Ahern was entered into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006 in Saint John, New Brunswick. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Producer/Engineer during The Americana Music Association Awards at the Ryman Auditorium, in Nashville TN. on Thursday, 9 September 2010 by former wife Emmylou Harris and musician Rodney Crowell. Ahern became renowned for his recording studio Enactron Truck, which produced over 40 gold and platinum records (including Bette Midler's The Rose and Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born).〔http://www.baammusic.com/Content/articles/mixmag-Sound.pdf〕 == Halifax years == Ahern was the second of five children. His father was the music director for their Catholic parish. At the age of twelve, Ahern was hospitalized with a severe asthma condition. His father gave him a guitar (S.S. Stewart f-hole archtop). He strummed his way through school, and the folk era. When records were played at school sock-hops, Ahern convinced the school administration to purchase equipment so a school band could play live. At St. Mary's University, he played Junior Varsity football as well as music. Ahern played on a CBC network summer replacement television show called "Singalong Jubilee." Anne Murray auditioned for the show in 1964, and Ahern played guitar for her. She was rejected, but two years later was invited back to audition again, and hired. Ahern had become the Music Director. Ahern formed his own band named "Brian Ahern and The Offbeats". They were a critical and popular success on Frank's Bandstand, the Halifax segment of the national show Music Hop (See (The Offbeats )). Ahern was music director of Frank's Bandstand and hired Anne Murray periodically on the show beginning in 1965. The band also performed as the "Nova Scotians". Ahern also had a third band called The Badd Cedes, later renamed Chapter V. After getting signed to Verve/Folkways in New York in 1967, they recorded a number of demos at the CBC in Halifax and relocated to Toronto to record several sessions for the label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Ahern (producer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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