BIO
ABOUT DWAYNE LAFORME
For over 30 years Dwayne LaForme has been living, breathing, sleeping and playing the blues. His heart and passion are all about the blues. For the last 20-plus years, LaForme has also headed up his own band, the highly sought after “Dwayne LaForme’s Boogie Blues.”
Growing up between Mississauga of the Credit First Nation and Six Nations of the Grand River meant LaForme’s deep musical roots came from both sides of his family.
LaForme has had the pleasure of playing with some of Canada’s finest blues musicians. Most notably, “The Prime Minister of Blues”, Dutch Mason and members of The Downchild Blues Band. He is a 3-time competitor at the International Blues Challenge. Two of which he represented the Grand River Blues Society in Memphis, TN as part of the Joel Johnson Band.
In 2018 LaForme was the first Indigenous Canadian to join the house band for the Native American Music Awards (NAMA), held in Niagara Falls, New York, as lead guitarist and both lead and back-up vocals.
2019/2020 was the 4th year for the ‘Dwayne LaForme’s Boogie Blues True Blues Matinee’, at Spice’s on Sydenham in Brantford, Ontario. LaForme’s True Blues Matinee promises to have you dancing and singing having seen guest blues musicians such as Jerome Godboo, Bill Durst, Paul James, Paul Reddick and Joel Johnson to name a few.
Growing up between Mississauga of the Credit First Nation and Six Nations of the Grand River meant LaForme’s deep musical roots came from both sides of his family.
LaForme has had the pleasure of playing with some of Canada’s finest blues musicians. Most notably, “The Prime Minister of Blues”, Dutch Mason and members of The Downchild Blues Band. He is a 3-time competitor at the International Blues Challenge. Two of which he represented the Grand River Blues Society in Memphis, TN as part of the Joel Johnson Band.
In 2018 LaForme was the first Indigenous Canadian to join the house band for the Native American Music Awards (NAMA), held in Niagara Falls, New York, as lead guitarist and both lead and back-up vocals.
2019/2020 was the 4th year for the ‘Dwayne LaForme’s Boogie Blues True Blues Matinee’, at Spice’s on Sydenham in Brantford, Ontario. LaForme’s True Blues Matinee promises to have you dancing and singing having seen guest blues musicians such as Jerome Godboo, Bill Durst, Paul James, Paul Reddick and Joel Johnson to name a few.
ALBUM CREDITS
LaForme has appeared on Dr. Decibel’s “Hard Done & Still By”; and with Joel Johnson “Blues Jose Vol. 2”, (which was also nominated for a Maple Blues Award).
