Guillaume Arsenault (chanson)

Guillaume Arsenault (chanson)
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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)

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