Leon Dubinsky (4 July 1941 – 17 January 2023) was a Canadian actor, theatre director and composer from Sydney,

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. Dubinsky first became prominent in music with the regional touring band Buddy and the Boys in the 1970s and 1980s,"Stompin' Tom winners announced". ''

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'', 16 January 2002. and launched an annual musical stage revue, ''The Rise and Follies of Cape Breton'', in the early 1980s."Discovering Nova Scotia"
. ''Reform Judaism Online'', Summer 2007. A song from that show, " Rise Again", became a Canadian pop music standard when the folk music group

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recorded it for their 1993 album '' North Country''; their version was a cross-format hit, reaching the Top 20 on Canada's ''

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'' pop and adult contemporary charts and the Top 40 on the magazine's country charts. The song was also later performed and recorded by Rita MacNeil and

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. Another musical revue by Dubinsky, the Cape Breton Summertime Revue, toured even more extensively across Canada in the 1990s. In 2002, Dubinsky won the Stompin' Tom Connors Award from the

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in honour of his contributions to the region's musical culture. As an actor, Dubinsky is associated primarily with regional stage productions in the

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, including with The Mulgrave Road Co-op, Theatre Antigonish, Theatre PEI, and Factory Lab Theatre. He appeared in the 1987 film ''

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'', for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 9th Genie Awards. He starred alongside Rick Mercer in the 1988 CBC Television teleplay ''My Brother Larry'', and had a recurring role as Cap McKenzie in the 1990s television series ''

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''.

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