Finger-Picking Folk Troubadour - Rock & Roll Raconteur
See Will Gillespie Live! in concert:
Canadian Singer-Songwriter Will Gillespie. Winner of the 2025 Durham Regional Excellence in Arts, Music and Sound (DREAMS!) Award for "Song of the Year" Nominated for 2026 "Solo Artist of the Year" Raised in the small gold-mining town of South Porcupine, Northern Ontario. Now based out of the Durham Region. Recent albums include "Summer's Last Legs" and "MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush
Award-Winning Canadian Singer-Songwriter Will Gillespie is glad and grateful to be performing with Gal George Gjurin, as one of his special guests, celebrating 25 years of live performance as a solo Artist.
LINEUP:
Gal George Gjurin – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, bugarria, mandocello, piano, harmonica, flugelhorn, saxophones (Canada/Slovenia)
Severa Gjurin – vocals (Slovenia/Canada)
Will Gillespie – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, harmonica (Canada)
Metod Banko – vocals (Slovenia)
Leon Žunec – acoustic and electric guitars, bratsch, banjo, alto sax (Slovenia)
Erin Okrainec – fiddle (Canada)
4Strings Quartet – Aleksander Rogina (violin), Viviana Rogina (violin), Petar Njegovan (viola/Croatia), Valentin Rogina (cello) (Slovenia)
Brandon Ruch – electric guitar (Canada)
Niko Kostanjevec – keys, drums, percussion (Slovenia)
Tadej Kraševec – vocals, acoustic guitar (Slovenia)
Janja Brlec – zither, vocals (Slovenia)
Anja Oraže – vocals (Austria)
Susan Robinson – scenography (Canada)
Zachary Porter Itāhokow – sound, AV production (Canada)
IN OTHER NEWS:
Will Gillespie is honoured and delighted to be nominated for Solo Artist of the Year at the 2026 Durham Regional Excellence in Arts, Music and Sound (DREAMS!) Awards. And performing as part of a tribute to DREAMS! Hall of Fame Inductees Sum 41.
Here's the official video for
"Make Me Wrong"
the first single off Will's new album:
"Summer's Last Legs"
Will Gillespie
Receives
DREAMS!
(Durham Regional Excellence in Arts, Music and Sound)
Award!
and 3
Nominations!!!
"Princess Maggie Buffalo"
WINS:
-Song of the Year!!-
"MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush"
Nominated for:
-Album of the Year!-
William James Gillespie
Nominated for:
-Songwriter of the Year!!!-
MINE! TRUE STORIES & LEGENDS OF THE PORCUPINE GOLD RUSH LP
Will Gillespie's full-length album:
"MINE! True Stories and Legends of the Porcupine Gold Rush"
available on streaming, download, CD and 12" Vinyl LP
and
the first two singles off the album
can be found online streaming, download and an accompanying LYRIC VIDEO.
Will Gillespie Live! Videos:
Here's a video of Will Gillespie playing his song
on an episode of
"Music From Windecker Road"
Will is beside himself with excitement for his latest music video for
from the album
Here's Will playing his own original song
"Make Me Wrong"
Live! with a band
at the
Burlington Performing Arts Centre:
For more videos, go to "Videos" page.