Genres Country Name Al Cherney Occupation(s) Fiddler Role Musician | Instruments fiddle Albums Al Cherney's Fiddle Party Years active 1951-1989 | |
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Birth name Alexander Peter Chernywech Associated acts Vic Siebert; the Sons of the Saddle Died August 23, 1989, Mississauga, Canada Similar People Tommy Hunter, Dick Damron, Don Messer | ||
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Alexander Peter Chernywech (November 1, 1932 – August 25, 1989) recording as Al Cherny, was a Canadian fiddler. He studied with Frank Nowak and played country music on CHAT-FM.
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Cherney won the Canadian Old Time Fiddlers' Contest in Ontario, under the novelty class from 1959 to 1961 and the open class in both 1960 and 1961.
In the early 1970s, he was a leading studio musician, recording with musician like Gary Buck, Dick Damron, Tommy Hunter and Sylvia Tyson. He released more than ten studio albums and received an RPM Big Country Award for Top Country Instrumentalist in 1978.
From 1964, until his passing in 1989, Cherny was a regular, featured musician on the CBC's The Tommy Hunter Show. Cherny met Tommy Hunter when he worked at CKNX in Wingham, Ontario.
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Legacy
He was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989. He also performed regularly on The Tommy Hunter Show, until his death in 1989, of lung cancer.