Guillaume Arsenault (chanson)
Description
A son of Bonaventure in the Gaspé Peninsula, Guillaume Arsenault is an outstanding and involved artist with a habit of collecting awards. He claimed three prizes at the 2001 Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée: the Jury, Audience, and Télé-Québec prizes. In 2005, he was a finalist in the singer-songwriter category at Ma Premiere Place des Arts. He was also a 2005 recipient of the Gaspésie-île-de-la-Madeleine Arts and Letters fund, as well as a beneficiary of the Artistic Research and Creation grant from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec.
Biography
A son of Bonaventure in the Gaspé Peninsula, Guillaume Arsenault is an outstanding and involved artist with a habit of collecting awards. He claimed three prizes at the 2001 Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée: the Jury, Audience, and Télé-Québec prizes. In 2005, he was a finalist in the singer-songwriter category at Ma Premiere Place des Arts. He was also a 2005 recipient of the Gaspésie-île-de-la-Madeleine Arts and Letters fund, as well as a beneficiary of the Artistic Research and Creation grant from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec. Since 2001, Arsenault has shared the stage with artists such as Marie-Jo Thériault, Polo, Néry, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert and Tomás Jensen. In 2004, he toured Quebec (the ROSEQ tour), New Brunswick (ARRIMAGE Acadia-Québec) and France. Shortly thereafter, he produced a first album: Guillaume et l’Arbre. And somehow in the midst of all this activity, he started a group called Les Hâmeçons Sallés, creating a musical tale called Icitte Asteure with co-founders Pierre-André Bujold and Philippe Patenaude. It was in 2006 that a second album was launched: Le Rang Des Îles. This contemporary folk album is powerful in its serenity. It might be described as a poetic journey into a late afternoon sunset: a time when instruments are brought out, melodies are strummed, and doors are left unlocked…a time when tide and horizon are the only reference.
Members
Guillaume Arsenault (voice, guitar) Jean-Guy Leblanc (bass and double-bass) Éric Dion (guitar, slide guitar, dobro) Éric Proulx (drums and percussions)
News
23 July 2008
Guillaume Arsenault signs record deal with GSI Musique
25 June 2008
Voici la publicité de la COOP du Voir Montréal 26 juin
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