Who is Bernie Breen?

His first decade was spent doing it the hard way: touring, production management, running a club, promoting concerts and working as a booking agent. It gave him a complete, ground-level understanding of the industry that still shapes how he manages today.

In September 2002 he launched Bernie Breen Management, now one of the most respected full-service management firms in Canadian music, working across Toronto and Los Angeles. He's worked with The Tragically Hip in various capacities since the beginning of their career, managing them for eighteen years from 2002 through 2020. These years include 46 JUNO Award nominations, spearheading the iconic travelling music and arts festival Another Roadside Attraction, and the band's 2016 farewell tour that became a defining national moment.

Alongside the music he has produced three documentaries about the band. Bernie has carried on into the world of film and television, shepherding Hugh Dillon through the creation and execution of five seasons of the drama series Mayor of Kingstown. He has brought these same instincts to a small roster of singer-songwriters, musicians, actors, producers and elite athletes. The throughline has never changed; the artist comes first.

Bernie Breen Management was founded in September 2002 and works across Toronto and Los Angeles. It is a full-service talent management firm: career strategy, touring, recording, music producing, film and television, executive producing, acting, brand and venture work, all handled in-house and built around the artist rather than the deal.

The philosophy is simple and unfashionable. Protect the artist, take the long view, and say the hard thing when it needs saying. The roster is deliberately small so every act and event gets Bernie's undivided attention.

It serves established rock acts, singer-songwriters, actors and creators. New representation is selective and by introduction.