Simon Kendall is a

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rock musician and film composer. The longtime keyboardist for

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, he won the Genie Award for Best Original Score at the

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in 1993 for the film '' Cadillac Girls'', and was shortlisted for

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at the

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in 2001 for "Parting Glass", a song which he cowrote with

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and

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for the film '' Lunch with Charles''. In 2005, Kendall joined with Rob Baker,

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, Doug Elliott and

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in the supergroup project Stripper's Union. He has also been a frequent session musician for

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, and with The Stellar Band of Neighbours, an occasional touring band whose members include Wyckham Porteous, Steven Drake, Kevin Kane and Johnny Fay."Crowd gets Stellar at Capitol Theatre". ''Alberni Valley Times'', December 14, 2010.

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