Neville Wells (born 1940) is a Canadian country music performer.[1]

He was born in Newfoundland and grew up in Ompah, Ontario. He began his musical career singing and playing guitar in the Ompah Dance Hall. In 1959, Wells moved to Ottawa.[1] During the 1960s, he was a member of folk rock group The Children, which also included Bruce Cockburn, David Wiffen, William Hawkins, Sneezy Waters, Sandy Crawley and Richard Patterson.[2] In April 1980, he started a monthly newspaper, Capital County News, later known as Country Music News.[3] He was named Country Music Person of the Year in 1984 by the Canadian Country Music Association. In 1978, Wells established a long-running country music festival, the Ompah Stomp. Wells was inducted into the Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994.[1] More recently, Wells has played bass guitar for the band Bytown Bluegrass.[4]

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