vn, 1932-1989 CA
World, Country and Folk
A.k.a. Alexander Peter Chernywech
Alexander Peter Chernywech (born November 1, 1932 in Medicine Hat, Alberta of Ukrainian parents, died August 25, 1989.) was a Canadian fiddle player. He studied with Frank Nowak and played country music on CHAT-FM.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.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.