Jean-Baptiste Cardineau (he/him) is a Franco-American musician and songwriter based in Boston, Massachusetts. His one-man show highlights his abilities as a bluegrass singer/songwriter, mandolin player and guitarist. JB brings a unique Nouveau-Traditional approach to the mandolin and guitar. He charms crowds with his sense of humor, folksy aphorisms, and most of all his masterful and seasoned playing. With a musical and lyrical vision, his voracious desire to find the Cardineau sound is the driving force behind his musical modus operandi. 

 

JB was raised in the French Alps and moved to the Wild West as a teenager. He learned traditional fingerstyle guitar from his father prior moving to the States in 2017, where he picked up his grandmother’s 200 year old Breton mandolin. After spending several years as an integral member of the Montreal roots scene, following his studies in Political Science at Concordia University, he moved to Boston in 2022. He graduated Berklee College of Music on a World-Tour Presidential Scholarship in 2026 with a degree in Professional Music with a minor in American Roots. JB also had the privilege of spending time with the late Frank Wakefield and other foundational greats of past generations.

 

His unique and fearless mandolin playing has unleashed the heavy grass-picking artillery onto some of the biggest bluegrass stages in the world. Bolstered by his Franco-American roots and transatlantic repertoire, he strives to create authentic bonds across the franco-anglosphere. This timeless intersection of traditional and original music evokes a bygone era and calls attention to our dynamic past and present. Extracurricularly, JB plays mandolin with Boston-based group The Ruta Beggars and others.

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Jean-Baptiste Cardineau (lui/il) est un musicien et auteur-compositeur franco-américain installé à Boston, dans le Massachusetts. Son spectacle solo met en lumière ses talents de chanteur et compositeur bluegrass, innovateur de mandoline et guitariste. JB apporte une touche unique et « Nouveau-Traditionnelle » à la mandoline et à la guitare influencée par les grands mandolinistes du passé; Bill Monroe et son ami et mentor Frank Wakefield. Il séduit son public avec son humour, ses aphorismes populaires, et surtout, son jeu magistral et plein d’expérience sur la mandoline. Avec une vision musicale et lyrique, sa soif insatiable de trouver le son Cardineau est la force motrice de son modus operandi musical.​​