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Joel Fafard
Musical artist
Joel Fafard (born November 18, 1968) is a Canadian finger-style and slide guitarist from Saskatchewan. He now lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia.[1]
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Fafard has released six albums featuring original and traditional folk/blues instrumentals and songs. He won a Western Canadian Music Award in 2006[2] and was nominated for a Juno in 2007[3] for his album ...and another thing... In 2009, he was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for his album Three Hens Escape Oblivion[4]. With Fafard's latest album, Fowl Mood, he builds on his previous success, with a collection of new songs in the southern blues and Appalachian traditions.
Fafard studied guitar with Jack Semple[5] and music at Capilano College in British Columbia, and was a member of the Manitoba-based band Scruj MacDuhk, which later evolved into the Celtic fusion band, The Duhks.
Fafard's 2013 album, Borrowed Horses, was a collaboration with Toronto-based guitarist Joel Schwartz.[6] Schwartz and Fafard toured with Canadian sculptor Joe Fafard, performing at the sculptor's exhibition openings[7] across Canada. The album's title, Borrowed Horses, is a reference to Joe Fafard's sculpture of running horses,[8] which graces the CD cover.