Music producer Bob Ezrin, actor Graham Greene among Governor General’s performing arts laureates

By Cassandra Szklarski -CP-Music producer Bob Ezrin and actors Graham Greene and Patrick Huard are among the latest recipients of Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts. The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation announced the laureates this morning for its lifetime artistic achievement award. They include Sandra Laronde, the founding artistic director of the Indigenous performance company Red Sky Performance, and classical composer Denis Gougeon, whose array of works include music for solo instruments, chamber groups, orchestra, ballet and opera. Ezrin earned the distinction for a lengthy career that included work with Pink Floyd, U2, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, Rod Stewart, Andrea Bocelli, Taylor Swift, Alice Cooper and Nine Inch Nails. Meanwhile, Greene was lauded for a stage and screen career spanning more than five decades and credits around…

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