Joel Fafard

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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]

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.

• 2016 – Fowl Mood
• 2013 – Borrowed Horses
• 2010 – Cluck Old Hen
• 2008 – Three Hens Escape Oblivion
• 2006 – ...and another thing...
• 2003 – Rocking Horse
• 2001 – Head Smashed In
• 1991 – Farmer's Tan

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

• Joel Fafard – Website [1]