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RENÉ HUARD – CALLING FOR GOOD
TIMES

By LAWRENCE LEBO

Canadian instrumentalist/singer/songwriter, antique dealer
and antique reality TV star René Huard lives his life self-
actualised. He’s a multi-talented renaissance man, who’s had
the knack of making a financial success of whatever he’s been
into doing!

Huard plays
guitar, harmonica and
keyboards, can carry and write a
tune or two. He’s been
performing for over 40 years,

some of that time as band
member in a Canadian Top-40
Blues-rock group called the
Meteors. He’s made money
carving duck decoys and dealing

antiques, which led to a starring
role in a Canadian TV reality
show. His TV experience should
we say, polished his on camera
performance skills and funded
his dream to release a record of

his own.

René’s debut release “Blues Calling” is a joyful hybrid of Texas dance-club blues and 80’s rock
singer-songwriter music. The album contains 12 original danceable tracks. It’s definitely one
for the DJ’s to break out at your next party and a live performance of the tunes would most
certainly fill the dance floor with happy fans. It’s the kind of good-times material that today’s

blues festivals love to feature.

I asked René Huard to tell us about his life and career. This is what he told me...
LL: Let’s start at the beginning, shall we! Where did you grow up and what was your family
like please?

RH: I am the middle son, (one older & one younger sister), born July 05, 1956, in Arvida, Quebec,

to an Irish-Canadian mother, and French-Canadian father. Relocated to southern Niagara region
(Fort Erie) as a preschooler, educated in Catholic schools until the age of reason when I reasoned
Catholicism from a historical perspective and carried a rather thorny legacy! I am a spiritual
being moved by the ebb and flow of creative energies and seeking a higher resonance with, I’ll
just say, the good stuff.

My parents both worked diligently to better themselves, and built a prosperous life, blue collar
prosperity, not Royal prosperity.