J. P. Cormier

John Paul "J.P." Cormier (born January 23, 1969), is a Canadian bluegrass/folk/Celtic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. To date he has won thirteen East Coast Music Awards and one Canadian Folk Music Award.

Cormier was born in London, Ontario and began playing guitar around age five. As a child he displayed an unusual ability to play a variety of instruments by ear and won a guitar contest at age nine. with country artists Waylon Jennings, Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe and others. He went back into the studio, focused on his singer-songwriter abilities, and released Somewhere in the Back of My Heart in the same year.

Awards He has won or been nominated for the following awards:

Maritime Fiddle Festival- Best Reel - 1989 East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Album of the Year - 1991 Maritime Fiddling Festival – Best Reel – 1995 East Coast Music Award(ECMA) Roots/Traditional Artist of the Year – 1998 Nominated for a Juno Award in the Roots/Trad recording of the year category for "Another Morning" 1998 East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Album of the Year – 2000 East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Instrumental Artist of the Year – 2003 Music Industry Association Nova Scotia (MIANS) Folk/Roots Artist of the Year – 2005 Music Industry Association Nova Scotia (MIANS) Musician of the Year – 2005 Canadian Folk Music Awards – Instrumental Album of the Year – 2005 East Coast Music Award (ECMA) Folk Recording of the Year – 2006 (The Long River)

In addition, he has won several East Coast Music Awards and the Music Industry Association of Nova Scotia (MIANS) Award in various years.

In 2005 the Bravo! network aired J.P. Cormier – The Man and His Music, a one-hour documentary examining the life and music of J.P. Cormier. J.P. was also featured on Bravo's half-hour program "Men Of Music".