It’s all about the Song !
A career songwriter and recording artist residing in British Columbia,
Bruce Coughlan is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer with
over four decades of professional experience. An expressive singer
and rock-solid guitarist (flat-pick & fingerstyle), Bruce sports an extensive repertoire spanning an array of Roots music genres including Celtic, Bluegrass, Americana, Folk, Maritime, Blues & more.
Performing solo or in an ensemble, Bruce delivers great songs & stories expertly. He has written hundreds of songs and performed at thousands of venues, ranging from Theaters and Folk clubs around the globe to a
Canada Day performance on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Bruce is regularly a featured artist at festivals, concerts, arts presentations, community and corporate events. He has performed in eight provinces
and one territory, 38 states and has toured the United Kingdom on a
dozen occasions. Since recording his first LP in 1984, he’s recorded
14 albums of his original and adapted traditional music across a
broad range of the Roots Music genre.
Bruce might be best recognized for his historically based ballads,
written on Pacific Canadian themes. He has been the composer
and lead singer of Tiller’s Folly for over two decades.