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Place of Birth: Pense, Saskatchewan, Canada
About Joel Fafard
- 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.Fafard has released six albums featuring original and traditional folk/blues instrumentals and songs.
- He won a Western Canadian Music Award in 2006 and was nominated for a Juno in 2007 for his album ...and another thing...
- In 2009, he was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for his album Three Hens Escape Oblivion.
- 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 and music at Capilano College in British Columbia, and was a member of the Manitoba-based band Scruj MacDuhk, which later evolved into the internationally acclaimed Celtic fusion band, The Duhks. Fafard's 2013 album, Borrowed Horses, was a collaboration with Toronto-based guitarist Joel Schwartz.
- Schwartz and Fafard toured with Canadian sculptor Joe Fafard, performing at the sculptor's exhibition openings across Canada.
- The album's title, Borrowed Horses, is a reference to Joe Fafard's sculpture of running horses, which graces the CD cover.
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