STUART McLEAN is one of Canada's most beloved storytellers and a best-selling author. His hit CBC radio show THE VINYL CAFE premiered in 1994, and each week over 1 million listeners tune in to hear stories about Dave, owner of the second hand record store where the motto is: “We May Not Be Big, But We're Small".
 
The stories also feature Dave's wife, Morley, their two children, Sam and Stephanie, and assorted friends and neighbours.
 
The show also features live and recorded music by both up-and-coming and established Canadian musicians. Increasingly, it is becoming a place where Canadians go to find new, undiscovered talent.
 
Stuart’s most recent book Vinyl Cafe Notebooks: a collection of essays from The Vinyl Cafe has just been released in paperback.
 
Vinyl Cafe Notebooks is Stuart McLean’s ninth book and each one has been a best seller. Stuart has sold over 1 million books in Canada.
 
The books are: The Morningside World of Stuart McLean (1989), Welcome Home: Travels in Small Town Canada (1992), Stories from the Vinyl Cafe (1995), Home from the Vinyl Cafe (1998), The Vinyl Cafe Unplugged (2000), Vinyl Cafe Diaries (2003) and Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe (2006), Extreme Vinyl Cafe (2009) and Vinyl Cafe Notebooks (2010). Home from the Vinyl Cafe, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged and Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe have all received the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. The Vinyl Cafe Diaries (2003) was chosen as the best short story collection of the year by the Canadian Author's Association.
 
Stuart has also just released his tenth collection of Vinyl Cafe stories on compact disc. For the first time this new album, Vinyl Cafe Family Pack, is a four disk package that chronicles the lives of Dave, Morley, their kids and the family pets.
 
One of Stuart’s albums, Coast to Coast Story Service, has gone Gold in Canada.
 
The Vinyl Cafe Christmas Tour 2011 will feature music by The Vinyl Cafe Orchestra and special musical guest Hawksley Workman.