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Gregory B. Gallagher
Born in Montréal, Québec, Gregory is one of the original writers of the Sesame Street Television Show, author of the bestselling Eyewitness Top Ten Travel Guide: Montréal and Québec City (Penguin’s DK imprint 2004-2008), and writes for clients like National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, Jane Goodall Foundation, American Airlines, Explore Magazine from TACA Airlines, Dreamscapes Magazine (Globe and Mail), Ulysse Magazine from Paris, Asian Sources publications from Hong Kong, Travel Weekly Magazine, Better Nutrition, AAA Living Magazine, Vantage Magazine, and many more.
Commissioned to write for an increasing number of corporate clients, Gregory Gallagher has recently authored a large-format marketing book for Grenadines Estate Villas (in partnership with Raffles Hotels & Resorts and Trump International Golf Club), as well as the 2008 Minister of Tourism Québec golf campaign brochure (24-pages), VIA Rail Canada speech-writing, and the Côté Nord Tremblant Resort press kit. Other corporate clients include P/S/L Group (international pharmaceutical news), JED New Media Inc. (E-commerce), Penguin Group International (web-based travel guides), Discovery Channel, VISA America, and USA Today.
Gregory Gallagher is also the creative force behind “Universal Jazz” fifteen one-hour shows chronicling the evolution of North America’s only truly original art form. During the writing, researching, editing and narrating of this popular series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Gregory worked one-on-one with Quincy Jones, Lena Horne, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Oscar Peterson, Charles Mingus and many more icons of the idiom. He has also created the radio documentaries “Women of Non-Western Cultures”, “Downside of the Charcoal Industry”, and “The World’s Oldest Clown” among others.
Recently, he has completed two new travel guides about Montréal and Québec City for an online venture called Home & Abroad LLC.
Gregory lives in the Latin Quarter of Montréal with his wife Linda Hart, a portrait artist.
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