Marie-Josee Dandeneau

Marie-Josee is a French Canadian multi-instrumental musician from St-Boniface, Manitoba. Specializing in double bass and electric fretless bass, she reflects her French Canadian and Métis heritage in her playing. Marie-Josée Dandeneau is the "ace of the bass" and is one of the hardest-working freelance musicians (for studio work and touring) in this part of the world. She is phenomenally versatile, able to perform in any genre of music you can name, and has recorded and has created a fiercely independent musical history that includes numerous TV performances, freelance studio recordings (over 35), performing at festivals across the world (Europe, Australia, North America, Indonesia, New Zealand; playing to sometimes more than 20,000 people) performing with various jazz ensembles, solo artists and being the technical director of several musical groups. She has developed quite a reputation for the quality of her musicianship, her consistency and dependability, and has been very much in demand for session and touring work.



In 2006, Marie Josee developed a recording based workshop with The Big Heart Program (Manitoba Métis Federation) to help Aboriginal youth learn and experiment with live sound, multi-track recording production, radio production, and sound for television, film and theatre. Other workshop experience includes teaching about Aboriginal and Canadian culture with a performance collective in schools and Aboriginal communities across Canada.



Besides being an international touring bassist and workshop leader, Marie-Josee is a sought after studio engineer and live sound recording engineer, having earned her degree at Mid Ocean College. She has numerous studio audio engineer projects under her belt and her live sound project highlights include being on the sound crew for Mariah Carey, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Blue Shaddy (Australia).