Dennis Ellsworth is a songwriter, performer, sideman, and record producer from Charlottetown, PE. His interest in songwriting began in high school, filling notebooks with lyrics and poems. He grew up on the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Kris Kristofferson, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. His tastes evolved in grade 6 and he began buying cassettes and cds with whatever money he had.

Over the years he has collaborated with Josh Finlayson and Andy Maize from Skydiggers, Gord Downie from The Tragically Hip, Joel Plaskett, Donovan Woods, Rose Cousins, John Smith, Leeroy Stagger, Jim Bryson, Kinley Dowling (Hey Rosetta) and David Barbe (producer of Drive-by Truckers and bass player for 90’s alt rock band Sugar.) In 2015 Dennis signed a publishing deal with Cymba Music Publishing in Toronto and has since written songs in a wide variety of styles His music has appeared in television shows for CBC, Netflix, HBO and was featured in the award-winning film, The New Romantic. His song Warm Flowered Air was featured in a film called Alice, Darling. His songs have appeared in many well-known television programs, such as Heartland, Burden of Truth, Northern Rescue, Hudson and Rex, Ride and You Me Her.

Ellsworth began releasing albums in 2008 after moving home to PEI from a 7 year stay in Toronto. He has released 2 albums with his group, Haunted Hearts, an album as a duo with Kinley Dowling, a record with a group he formed in 2021 called, The Moneygoround, and 13 solo albums. In 2023, he released his ECMA nominated album Modern Hope on Tonic Records and quickly followed that up with an album produced by Jim Bryson, called Hardcore Freewheelin’. It was released in fall 2024. If that weren’t enough, there’s another album, called Living, waiting to be released in late 2025.