This weekend up in Truro the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame will add their class of 2025 inductees.
This year’s additions include: Paul Kennedy: A builder and promoter of country music.
Paul began his radio career in 1968 at CJLS in Yarmouth, which is now Y-95.5, an Acadia Broadcasting station and has promoted many East Coast, national, and international artists.
In 1968 he interviewed a 23-year-old Anne Murray, before “Snowbird” became an international hit in 1970, and his very first interview.
He has chatted with everyone from Liverpool’s Hank Snow to Shania Twain over the years and is still on-air at Seaside FM the community radio station in Easter Passage, NS, where he’s been for 24 years now.
Paul, a Dartmouth resident, is also a member of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inducted in 2005 and we first worked in radio together in 1987 here in Halifax and has been a great friend ever since.
(Above: Paul Kennedy with Ian and fellow Halifax radio voices.)
Other inductees include: Gordie Giles: A vocalist from Dartmouth, and has performed with several local bands and has been involved with the Hank Snow Tribute for 30 years.
Art Fitt: An instrumentalist who is being welcomed into the Hall of Fame.
Mike Surrette: A backup musician from Western Nova Scotia, who has played bass and rhythm guitar and been a member of the house band for Hank Snow Tributes for over 20 years.
The induction ceremonies are scheduled to take place at the Inn on Prince in Truro, Nova Scotia, on this Saturday, September 27, 2025 with doors opening at 4pm and dinner served at 5pm.
Advance tickets only are available by calling Carol Penney at 902-521-3690.
Congratulations to Paul and all from Hot Country 1035.
-Ian
Credits: Ian Robinson and Paul Kennedy Photos with the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame
