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Joel LeBlanc
Composer and multi-instrumentalist, Joel LeBlanc learns in motion. Primarily self taught, his formative training earned on the road with award winning trio Hot Toddy who toured internationally from 1997 to 2009. Joel joined Ken Aldcroft to record and tour The Long and Short of It beginning his foray into freely improvised music. Other groupings include his Quartet with Arthur Bull, Evan Shaw and Nicole Rampersaud, Tin Banger with Mark Adam and Tom Easley and ongoing projects with Andrew Miller and Nadia Francavilla. A community leader, Joel created and directed Fredericton’s Overtime Improv Choir and The Hard)S(Core Orchestra involving amateurs and professionals in open conduction. He has received numerous provincial grants, including most recently, The Rack; a study in solo guitar and racked harmonica involving microtonal detail and extended technique for diatonic harmonica, something still relatively unexplored.