Wayne Lavallee

Name: Wayne Lavallee   Country: Canada Genre: Folk, Folk Rock, Roots Website: Click Here   Follow The Artist:

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About Wayne Lavallee

Wayne Lavallee is 2010 Juno nominee & winner for “Best folk acoustic album” “Best rock album” & “Best male artist” at the 2010 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. While the new release was a great success, it took a long time for Wayne to find the right path to creating the long awaited follow up to his award winning album “Green Dress”.

Upon reviewing the new release “Trail of Tears”, Crossroads Magazine in France stated, “He is a superb storyteller, a gifted singer and a guitarist par excellence. I don’t know if the spirits haunted these sessions, but there is magic in every song.” The process of making the new album took Wayne on an artistic journey that opened up whole new directions in his music. Working with producer Johnny Ellis, he has created a gritty and deeply personal set of songs, filled with captivating performances and of course, his trademark keening voice.

On Trail of Tears, Lavallee uses a base of acoustic blues and brings in ideas from folk/rock to Native chants, allowing him an artistic freedom that transcends his achievements on Green Dress. The album was released in Europe on the Dixiefrog label and last fall Wayne did a 10 date solo tour across France – garnering glowing press reviews along the way: “The voice of Wayne Lavallee taps into his mystical roots…an album that is supernatural and enchanting.” Offered The Review BCR and Guitarist Magazine proclaimed “This Canadian songwriter, goes well beyond, with songs like ‘Sacred Journey’ and ‘Star Spangled Sensation’….Just superb!”

With a return to France set for later in 2011 and a truckload of award recognition coming in from across Canada, Wayne Lavallee has establishing himself of one of this country’s most important songwriters and storytellers – in any genre.