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Antoine Dufour

Antoine Dufour (born February 18, 1980, in L'Épiphanie, Quebec) is a Canadian acoustic guitarist and composer currently signed to CandyRat Records. Dufour started playing guitar at the age of fifteen. He went on to study at the CEGEP in Joliette, where he listened to the music of Leo Kottke, Don Ross, and Michael Hedges at the behest of his teacher. Since then, he has gone on to place second at the 2005 Canadian Guitar Festival's Fingerstyle Guitar Championship and first place in the 2006 competition. He also placed third at the 2006 International Finger Style Guitar Championship in Winfield Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA