J.P.:
Jack of all sounds
Everything Cormier plays he plays well
By Sandy MacDonald
The Daily News
Thursday Sept 29, 2005
Last
Sunday, while J.P. Cormier was gigging in Maine, his prodigious
musical talents were being laded at the annual MIANS awards
show in Halifax. Cormier won a pair of cut-glass vases –
for best folk-roots recording and musician of the year.
“The
musician award is the nicest thing I won, I think”,
says Cormier, over a cellphone from his well-traveled van,
rolling out of Calais, ME.
Cormier
has won a stack of awards over the years, including two
East Coast Music Awards this year and a recent third-place
finish in the International Songwriting Competition.
At
every turn of this career, the Cape Breton musician had
dazzled his audience with stellar playing and songwriting.
Cormier,
36, is clearly one of the finest musicians and songwriters
in this end of the country. He’s a master of several
instruments, including the flattop guitar, mandolin, five-string
banjo and fiddle. He is also an accomplished songwriter,
singer and studio engineer, who records and plays everything
on his own records. >>
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