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News Article Highlights and Full Articles
T. Bruce Wittet, Muzik Etc, Cover Story, Donny Parenteau Has What it Takes And Then Some, November/December 2007 click HERE to view full article (pdf format) click HERE to view magazine cover (pdf format)
Larry Delaney, Country Music News, Cover Story, July 2007 click HERE to view full article on CMN website
Lorena Kelly, The Spotlight, Session Magazine, July 2007 click HERE to view full article (pdf format)
P.A.'s Parenteau a rising star at the CCMA's, Prince Albert Daily Herald, Karen Longwell, August 3, 2007
"Prince Albert’s country music star Donny Parenteau has done it again. Parenteau is once again nominated for a Canadian Country Music Association award, this time as a finalist in the Chevy Rising Star Award category. Last year Parenteau was nominated in the “fiddle player of the year” category. Wednesday, just before 10 a.m., Parenteau got a call from his publicist in Toronto who told him the good news. “It was an incredible feeling,” he says. “This is the big one.” Last year’s nomination fulfilled a lifelong dream to be recognized across Canada for his fiddle playing, Parenteau says, but this nomination recognizes his solo career, which he started in 2003. “Now they (the public) are starting to recognize more than just fiddle playing — songwriting, singing, everything — the whole package,” Parenteau says. “I am really honoured to be in this category.”
Eagle Feather News, Saskatchewan, Michael Gosselin, May 2007
"the local star was rewarded for his hard work with ten nominations at the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards. The Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards have just named Parenteau ambassador of the event that will be held in his hometown of Prince Albert."
CanWest News Service, Regina Leader Post, April 16, 2007
"Host Jamie Warren welcomed the audience to the "2007 Donny Parenteau awards," a nod to the artist who received nominations in almost every category."
To Nashville and back, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Cam Fuller, April 13, 2007 (also posted in the April 13, 2007 issue of the Regina Leader Post)
"The Prince Albert musician is set to have a huge weekend at the Saskatchewan Country Music Association Awards. He's nominated in 10 categories but if you count his manager's and band's nominations, the total is 14. That's out of 27 awards.
Parenteau had to ear the wisdom he has collected after two decades in music, but he's willing to give it away for free. The one thing youngsters need to do when starting out is to stay humble, he says. Everyone wants to start at the top, Idol style, but it doesn't work over the long term.
Parenteau is not showing up at the SCMAs merely to pick up his trophies. He would like to see the event to grow. "I want to see this thing succeed because there's so much talent here," he said."
Parenteau on a High Note, PA Daily Herald, Timothy Schafer, April 2007 "This might be the year of the creative person in Saskatchewan, but it is also turning out to be the year of Donny Parenteau. The Versatile Prince Albert musician has garnered 10 Saskatchewan Country Music Association nominations and four for his band, more than half of the 26 music categories. That total is more than any artist in the province."
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