J. P. Cormier

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J. P. Cormier
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J.P. Cormier and Hilda Chiasson-Cormier performing in Edmonton in 2005
Background information
Birth nameJohn Paul Cormier
BornJanuary 23, 1969
London, Ontario
Genres Bluegrass. Folk music, Celtic
Occupation(s)Musician, singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)Guitar, mandolin, banjo, violin (fiddle), piano, upright bass, dobro, tenor banjo, cello, percussion
Years active1981–present
LabelsFlash Entertainment, Fontana North
Website http://www.jp-cormier.com/

John Paul "J.P." Cormier (born January 23, 1969), is a Canadian bluegrass/folk/Celtic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. To date he has won thirteen East Coast Music Awards and one Canadian Folk Music Award. [1]

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Cormier was born in London, Ontario [2] and began playing guitar around age five. As a child he displayed an unusual ability to play a variety of instruments by ear and won a guitar contest at age nine. [2] Appearances on Up Home Tonight , a television show devoted to bluegrass music, followed at age fourteen. [2]

Cormier has stated that he learned to play guitar by listening to such noted country / bluegrass musicians as Chet Atkins and Doc Watson. Other instruments J.P. has played on his albums include fiddle, twelve string guitar, upright bass, banjo, mandolin, drums, percussion, synthesizer, cello, tenor banjo and piano.

By age sixteen Cormier had recorded his first album (a collection of bluegrass instrumentals) [2] and he began working the U.S. festival circuit. This led him to move to the United States and to begin working as a session musician. He continued to perform live on the festival circuit and at the Grand Ole Opry [3] with country artists Waylon Jennings, Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe and others. [2]

In 1989 he attended the now-named Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville, Mississippi, where he majored in music education. At the time it was one of only three colleges in North America that offered a specialty in bluegrass instruments. During his stay at Northeast he began playing the dobro and piano. It was also during this time he first had the idea for the song "Northwind".[ citation needed ]

Cormier was involved in a serious truck accident in 2009, resulting in a fractured vertebra and a halt to his touring in 2012. [4] He went back into the studio, focused on his singer-songwriter abilities, and released Somewhere in the Back of My Heart in the same year. [4]

In April 2015 Cormier released a new album, The Chance , which included the previously released single Hometown Battlefield, about soldiers experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder. The song, inspired by Cormier's 2007 Afghanistan tour and news about soldiers' suicides, [1] went viral, with millions of Facebook visits and 800,000 YouTube views (July 2015). [2]

Discography

Albums No Longer Available

Awards

He has won or been nominated for the following awards:

In addition, he has won several East Coast Music Awards and the Music Industry Association of Nova Scotia (MIANS) Award in various years.

In 2005 the Bravo! network aired J.P. Cormier – The Man and His Music, a one-hour documentary examining the life and music of J.P. Cormier. J.P. was also featured on Bravo's half-hour program "Men Of Music".

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References

  1. 1 2 Edey, Noel (April 18, 2015). "JP Cormier here tonight". Cochrane Times. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Shea, Darlene (May 8, 2015). "JP Cormier brings new album to Alberton". The Journal Pioneer. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  3. ↑ Ougler, Jeffrey (March 20, 2015). "Going viral for veterans". Sault Star. Archived from the original on June 2, 2015. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Mersereau, Bob (July 21, 2012). "Music Review: J.P. Cormier – Somewhere In The Back of My Heart". CBC.ca . Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ Elaine Keillor (March 18, 2008). Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. pp. 298–. ISBN   978-0-7735-3391-2.
  6. ↑ "Canyon is the toast of the coast", The Toronto Star, 19 February 2007
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