Harvey Glatt
| Harvey Glatt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 March 1934 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Music promoter, record retailer and record label owner, radio station owner |
| Years active | 1955-present |
| Labels | Posterity, True North |
| Associated acts | Bruce Cockburn, David Wiffen, The Esquires |
Harvey Glatt (born March 28, 1934 in Ottawa, Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian music promoter, manager, broadcaster, record and instrument retailer, and record label owner.
Harvey Glatt was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, graduating from Glebe Collegiate Institute in 1951. He thereafter obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1956 from the Clarkson College of Technology in Potsdam, New York. While at Clarkson College, Glatt co-produced his first concert, presenting Dave Brubeck in 1955.
Glatt's interest in music developed from an early age. He became a regular reader of Billboard Magazine as of the age of thirteen.
Glatt began his professional association with music in the early 1950s, as a broadcaster, both at Clarkson College and for CFRA Radio in Ottawa. In 1957, initially with partner Arnold Gosewich, who later became the President of Capitol Records of Canada and subsequently Chairman of CBS Records of Canada, Glatt opened his first retail music store, The Treble Clef, in Ottawa, which grew to a chain of fifteen stores. At the time of the opening of the first store, The Treble Clef was the first stand alone record and music store in Ottawa.
Glatt's first Ottawa concert promotion was a 1957 co-production, with Gil Levine and Max Sternthal, assisted by Montreal promoter Sam Gesser (at the time the Canadian distributor of Folkways Records), of a concert by Pete Seeger. The opening act was Sonny Terry, accompanied by his nephew, J.C. Burris, playing bones. Glatt thereafter formed a loose association with Gesser and Toronto-based Vivienne Stenson, who owned two theatre businesses, to produce a number of concerts, including performances by Theodore Bikel, Tom Lehrer, The Weavers, Odetta, Andre Segovia, Josh White and the Kingston Trio. They also presented the Jose Greco Flamenco Dance Company and one person theatre performances by Emlyn Williams and Elsa Lanchester.
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