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- Birth nameEdward Isaac Bickert
- Ed Bickert was born on November 29, 1932 in Hochfeld, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for Nightcap (1963), Festival (1960) and Q for Quest (1961). He was married to Madeline Mulholland. He died on February 28, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- SpouseMadeline Mulholland(? - 2000) (her death, 3 children)
- When he was ten years old, Bickert started playing a guitar owned by his older brother, and he was soon performing at country dances with his parents.
- As a child, Bickert and his family moved to Vernon, British Columbia where his parents operated a chicken farm and had a small country dance band.
- In his late teens, Bickert worked for a little over a year as a sound engineer at a local radio station near Vernon.
- Bickert played on five Rosemary Clooney albums between 1983 and 1987, and the two recorded nine songs during these years as guitar/vocal duets.
- He received in 1 980 a Juno Award for Best Jazz Recording, Sackville 4005 with Don Thompson.
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