Orin Isaacs

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Orin Isaacs is a Canadian bass guitarist, record and television music producer, best known as the bandleader on Mike Bullard's late-night talk shows Open Mike with Mike Bullard and The Mike Bullard Show.

Isaacs is currently the musical director and bassist on Canadian Idol. His composing and production work can also be currently heard on Hockey Night in Canada, Project Runway Canada, The Jon Dore Television Show, Divine Design, Are You Smarter Than a Canadian 5th Grader, Divine Restoration and Canada's Worst Driver 2, as well as numerous Canadian television specials like the 2006 Torino & 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games and Award shows like the Juno's, Genies, Gemini's, NHL, CFL and Canada's Walk of Fame. He has also composed music for three National Film Board productions, Jane and Finch Again, Shinny and Flemingdon Park, as well as the theatrical film My Father’s Hands.

He runs three companies Swing Low Productions, which is a music production house and studio, Moca Music, a record label distributed in Canada by EMI, and Ruff Rhyme, a music publishing company administered by EMI Music Publishing Canada