13 Facts About Dave Bidini

Dave Bidini was born on September 11,1963 and is a Canadian musician and writer.

Dave Bidini is the only Canadian to have been nominated for all three of Canada's main entertainment awards, the Gemini Award for television work, the Genie Awards for film work and the Juno Awards for music, as well as being nominated on Canada's national book awards program, Canada Reads.

Dave Bidini was first published at 11 years old in the Toronto Sun's "Young Sun" pullout section, writing a poem about Maple Leaf hockey player Eddie Shack.

Dave Bidini was a columnist for the Toronto Star between 1991 and 1993; his stories were written on a portable typewriter from the road and submitted via gas station faxes, and his 1996 tour diary for the same paper became the essence of his first book.

In 2010, broadcaster Ron MacLean told a Saturday night audience on Hockey Night in Canada that Dave Bidini was "one of this country's most important voices in music and hockey" before premiering a track, "The Land is Wild," from his band's first album.

Dave Bidini wrote a weekly Saturday column for the National Post, but was dismissed in 2015.

In 2017, Dave Bidini founded the community newspaper, the West End Phoenix, which focuses on life in Toronto's west end.

Dave Bidini is the editor and publisher of the newspaper.

Dave Bidini has written two plays, Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica, which was toured nationally in 2009 by One Yellow Rabbit and later adapted into a short animated film by Cam Christiansen, and The Night of the Dogs, which has been staged, in sections, by the sketch comedy group, The Imponderables.

In 2012, Dave Bidini lent the sketch group the song "I Wanna Go to Yemen" for their popular web series Bill and Sons Towing.

Dave Bidini wrote and hosted the Gemini Award-winning adaptation of Tropic of Hockey, called Hockey Nomad, which was first broadcast on CBC Television in January 2003.

Dave Bidini has won three National Magazine Awards for his writing.

Dave Bidini previously won for the Saturday Night piece "Hockey Night in Dubai", which was later expanded into one of Tropic of Hockey's narrative triptych.