About

Paul St-Amand is a singer and trumpeter based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Packing a sweet tone and lyrical voice, he’s become a mainstay of the city’s live music scene. He leads a five-piece outfit called The Joy Curve, playing original soul and R&B music along with strikingly offbeat covers. He also leads a trio/quartet performing live jazz at venues around the city. Paul’s fiery trumpet solos are featured by the popular salsa band Son Latino and he appears frequently as a sideman and studio musician with many of the region’s finest recording artists.

Paul was a 2017 Music Nova Scotia Award nominee for Jazz Recording of the Year as leader of a quintet called Blue Spirits, for the album Liquid Courage. He’s recorded with The Stanfields, Hillsburn, Aquakultre, Tommy Green Jr., Beauts, Corey Isenor, rsun, Michael Dalton, Roxy & The Underground Soul Sound, and many more. Paul was a longtime member of Unidentified Funk Object, with whom he received an ECMA nomination for Funk/Soul Recording of the Year.

Also an accomplished classical performer, Paul is a founding member of the Bedford Brass Quintet. The ensemble has twice been voted among the top classical artists in Halifax by readers of The Coast. From 2012-2019 he organized annual Harmony & Hope concerts featuring his choir-and-brass musical arrangements, and raising over $22,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. In 2018, Paul’s original brass quintet composition The Eagle and Shield was chosen as Dalhousie University’s official bicentennial anthem.