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Joel Fafard, November 18, 1968. Fafard is a Canadian finger-style and slide guitar

Slide guitar

Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

ist from Saskatchewan. He now lives on the Sunshine Coast

Sunshine Coast

There are several places around the globe that use the name Sunshine Coast. They are collections of coastal towns and/or cities that have banded together, usually for tourist promotional reasons...

in British Columbia.

Critically acclaimed for his virtuosity as a guitarist, Fafard has released three instrumental albums, leading to a Western Canadian Music Award and a Juno

Juno Award

The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...

nomination. On his latest album, Cluck Old Hen he finds his niche as a blues vocalist through covers of traditional southern blues songs.

Fafard, who is known as one of Canada's most accomplished slide guitarists, studied guitar with Jack Semple

Jack Semple

-History:Semple grew up on a farm north of Regina, Saskatchewan. He started his musical career playing with various Regina-based bands, and later relocated to Toronto in the late 1980s to become the lead guitarist of The Lincolns, a popular funk and rhythm and blues band...

and music at Capilano College in British Columbia.

Fafard's work has received nominations for many awards including a Juno nomination in 2007 for his album Three Hens Escape Oblivion. This album won Outstanding Instrumental Recording at the 2006 Western Canadian Music Awards. Cluck Old Hen which was released October 12, 2010, is his sixth album, and his first vocal album since 2001.

Discography

2010 – Cluck Old Hen
2008 – Three Hens Escape Oblivion
2006 – ...and another thing...
2003 – Rocking Horse
2001 – Head Smashed In
1991 – Farmer's Tan

Awards and nominations

2009 Canadian Folk Music Award nominee; 2009 International Acoustic Music Award runner up; 2009 Western Canadian Music Award nominee; 2007 Juno nominee; 2006 Western Canadian Music Award Winner; 2006 Canadian Folk Music Award nominee; 2004 Western Canadian Music Award nominee

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