At 30 years old, the Winnipeg, Manitoba-based singer/songwriter is a wealth of musical knowledge and experience. Frechette has written over 1000 songs.
Now, with his first full-length solo recording, Lucky Day, Dan Frechette brings his knowledge and songwriting chops to bear on an album that brims with his unabashed enthusiasm and crackles with the sound of a writer clearly discovering the top of his game.
While in his teens he was signed to a major publishing contract. After 5 years of writing pop songs he spent five years performing for a living on the streets all over North America and Europe. He's toured with a cowboy band, played funk music at Mission and Fifth Avenue in San Francisco, played blues and ragtime guitar in Stuttgart, played solo at several major folk festivals and is the man who penned "Who Will Take My Place" and "Mists Of Down Below" for modern bluegrass stars The Duhks.
Critics have uniformly praised Frechette's debut. Veteran Toronto Star pundit Greg Quill was so moved that he wrote the following:
"Manitoba singer/songwriter Dan Frechette, blessed with an enormous talent a facility for adapting elemental folk forms; bluegrass, Celtic airs, country, ragtime, country blues - to his purpose, the likes of which I haven't heard since Dylan's first recordings. Lucky Day is already a classic, an album that will surely find an exalted place in the canon."
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