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Ray Bonneville
Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana to its essentials and steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living and deep feeling. Whether performing solo or fronting a band, playing electric or acoustic guitar, Bonneville allows space between notes that adds potency to every chord, lick, and lyric. Often called a “song and groove man,” he began writing his own music after two decades working as a studio musician, playing rowdy rooms with blues bands, and living hard. He’s since released nine albums, won Canada’s Juno award and other prestigious honors, earned wide critical acclaim, and garnered an enthusiastic following in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
“Few can ride a groove like Canada-born, U.S.-raised Ray Bonneville.”
— No Depression
- Has played South by Southwest, Folk Alliance, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and Montreal International Jazz Festival
- Shared bills with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Dr. John, J.J. Cale, and Robert Cray
- Played on albums by Mary Gauthier, Gurf Morlix, Eliza Gilkyson, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and others
- Juno Award Winner, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy
- Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge Champion
- Awarded International Folk Alliance’s Song of the Year

“An absolute master…one of the most skilled songwriters of that dark slow smoldering yet fiery blues/roots music.”
— FAME