Famous names ? ok ok...
Well, those of you in Quebec might have heard of Sylvie Paquette, Luc de La Rochelière, Mari-Jo Theriault or the late Bernard Primeau, (who gave us a chance to play with Slide Hampton) - which leads us into the jazz world - for you New-York types, Dave Binney and Jojo Mayer should ring bells, or Anthony Cox and Dave Douglas, who I had a chance to record with, thanks to drummer extraordinaire Franklin Kiermayer.
In New-York I also studied with Wayne Krantz and Adam Rogers, thanks to grants from the Quebec and Canadian Council for the Arts.
After winning the SOCAN prize for Best Song at the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Best Band Award at the Vienne (France) Jazz Festival, (that rocked) I was sent to represent Canada at an International Guitar Summit in Cannes featuring Terje Ripdal and Wolfgang Muthspiel.
Rebkka Bakken and Till Brönner are well known in Europe and Asia, I worked with them. And also with Jocelyn B. Smith and Helge Schneider, who are very successful in Germany, where I lived for several years. I also have been in Mousse T's studio a few times, and we got along well, but he's never directly hired me. I suspect he is losing sleep over this.
Back in Canada, for you Torontonians, I was a working Shuffle Demon for a few very cool years, thanks to Juno Award Winner Richard Underhill - we were big in Estonia - and the amazing Ed Bickert actually came to a gig of Brian Hurley's and mine once, at the guitar bar of the Top of the Senator. So did Joe Pass in Quebec city...blah blah blah...zzzzzzzzz...

does anyone really care about this stuff ??
didn't think so...