RAY LEGERE is the 2019 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in the Arts. He is also inducted into the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Country Music Halls Of Fame and is a multiple ECMA (East Coast Music Award) Winner . The Amherst, Nova Scotia native is known as one of Canada's premiere fiddle/mandolin players. Ray is a five-time winner of the Eastern Division Blu...
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RAY LEGERE is the 2019 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in the Arts. He is also inducted into the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Country Music Halls Of Fame and is a multiple ECMA (East Coast Music Award) Winner . The Amherst, Nova Scotia native is known as one of Canada's premiere fiddle/mandolin players. Ray is a five-time winner of the Eastern Division Bluegrass Awards in the categories of Mandolin and Fiddle " Player of the Year", honors which have distinguished him with a "Masters Award" for each. The first year of the awards he captured a total of three, including guitar and was recently awarded the Masters for "Best Fiddle Player" in the Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards. Ray, although not wanting to be a contest player, was selected winner of the 1983 Open Mandolin Championship in Woodstock Ontario, winner of the 1986 Open Mandolin Championship in Winfield, Kansas, and winner of the 1989 Old Time Fiddle Championship in Sackville, New Brunswick. He scored in Nashville's Grand Masters Fiddle Championship in 1990 and in Napean, Ontario's 1990 and 1991 Grand Masters Fiddle Championships. Ray has accomplished many accolades, the most notable playing a concert filling the shoes of an ailing Bill Monroe, the father of Bluegrass Music in 1982. His love for Bluegrass has found him playing alongside his heroes, David Grisman, Sam Bush, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Tony Trischka, Doc Watson, Bela Fleck, ... and is well respected amongst them.
Ray’s mandolin, fiddle and acoustic guitar have appeared on hundreds of varying sessions, from celtic and bluegrass to country, folk, swing and original styles.
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