 As freelance producer he has two Music Nova Scotia Producer of the Year Awards, over 50 albums to his production credits and has performed with artists such as John Allan Cameron, The Cape Breton Summertime Revue, Natalie MacMaster, Aselin Debison.Bruce Guthro, and Gordie Sampson.In 1996 Fred Lavery and fellow musician/writer Gordie Sampson founded Lakewind Sound Studios.The studio has won 9 ECMA’s and 5 MIANS Studio of the Year Awards.