Al Connelly

Alan Connelly is a Canadian guitarist and songwriter. He is a founding member of the rock band Glass Tiger. He and his band received five Canadian music industry JUNO Awards and were nominated for Best New Artist at the 1987 Grammy Awards.

Early life Connelly attended Huron Heights Secondary School in Newmarket, Ontario.

Career In Toronto, Frew and Wayne Parker joined forces with keyboardist Sam Reid and drummer Michael Hanson, to form the band Tokyo, which later developed into Glass Tiger. Connelly was asked to join the new band in 1983. The album went quadruple platinum in Canada and gold in the United States. Two of its songs, "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" and "Someday", reached the Top 10 in the U.S. charts. Glass Tiger won three 1986 Juno Awards: and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. and featured the single "I'm Still Searching", which peaked at #2 in Canada.

Glass Tiger went on hiatus in 1993. and began touring again.

In 2009, Glass Tiger, including Connelly, played to the Canadian Armed Forces stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and at Camp Mirage.

As of 2015, Connelly continued to write and produce solo work or with various musicians and performers in world music, reggae, R&B, blues, rock, and pop.

Discography Studio albums In Another Life (2004)

with Glass Tiger The Thin Red Line (1986) Diamond Sun (1988) Simple Mission (1991) 31 (2018) 33 (2019) Songs for a Winter's Night (2020)