Career
He now lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia. Fafard has released six albums featuring original and traditional folk/blues instrumentals and songs. In 2009, he was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for his album Three Hens Escape Oblivion.
With Fafard"s latest album, Fowl Mood, he builds on his previous success, with a collection of new songs in the southern blues and Appalachian traditions.
Fafard"s 2013 album, Borrowed Horses, was a collaboration with Toronto-based guitarist Joel Schwartz. Schwartz and Fafard toured with Canadian sculptor Joe Fafard, performing at the sculptor"s exhibition openings across Canada.
The album"s title, Borrowed Horses, is a reference to Joe Fafard"s sculpture of running horses, which graces the Civil Defense cover.
