{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Kevin Breit | image = Harry Manx with Kevin Breit.jpg | caption = Bluesfest 2008, Ottawa, Canada | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = McKerrow (Baldwin, Ontario), Canada | origin = Ontario, Canada | instrument = Guitar, mandolin | genre = Jazz, folk, Americana | occupation = Musician | years_active = 1980’s—present | label = Poverty Playlist, Stony Plain | website = {{URL|kevinbreit.com/}} }}
'''Kevin Breit''' is a Canadian musician. Breit has collaborated in numerous bands and recorded albums as a leader. He has won a Juno Award.
==Projects== Breit is the leader of the quartet Sisters Euclid, comprising Breit, Ian DeSouza, Gary Taylor and Rob Gusevs.<ref name="AAJ" /> Sisters Euclid earned a Juno Award in 2007.<ref name="Well" /> In 2006, they released an instrumental jazz fusion album of Neil Young songs entitled ''Run Neil Run''.<ref name="AAJ">{{cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/run-neil-run-the-sisters-euclid-northernblues-music-review-by-jim-santella |title=Sisters Euclid: Run Neil Run |publisher=Allaboutjazz.com |date= 29 September 2006|access-date=2015-10-26}}</ref>
Breit is a member of The Stretch Orchestra with fellow "quite tall" musicians Matt Brubeck and drummer Jesse Stewart.<ref name="Well" /> Their self-titled recording won a Juno Award in 2012 for Best Instrumental Album.<ref name="Well">{{cite news |title=Stretch Orchestra wins Juno Award |url=https://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/stretch-orchestra-wins-juno-award/ |work=The Wellington Advertiser |access-date=10 May 2025}}</ref>
Breit is a member of the folk group ''Folkalarm''.<ref name="Best">{{cite web|title=Best of Folkalarm, by Kevin Breit and Folkalarm|url=https://kevinbreit.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-folkalarm|website=Kevin Breit|accessdate=23 September 2016}}</ref>
Breit is part of the Neon Eagle band which played at The Rex, a jazz club located in Toronto, in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-28 |title=Neon Eagle |url=https://www.therex.ca/events/emily-schultz-and-neon-eagle-4d65l-czx95 |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=The Rex }}</ref> He has played and toured with musicians such as Cassandra Wilson, Holly Cole, and Norah Jones.<ref name="Well" />
==Discography== * ''Maybelle'' (Poverty Playlist, 1998) * ''Empty'' (Poverty Playlist, 1998) * ''Folkalarm'' (Poverty Playlist, 1998) * ''Supergenerous'' (Blue Note, 2000) * ''Jubilee'' with Harry Manx (NorthernBlues Music, 2003) * ''Skedaddle'' (Poverty Playlist, 2003) * ''Burnt Bulb on Broadway'' (Poverty Playlist, 2005) * ''In Good We Trust'' with Harry Manx (Stony Plain, 2007) * ''Sao Paulo Slim'' with Cyro Baptista (Out of My Mind Music, 2008) * ''Simple Earnest Plea'' (Poverty Playlist, 2011) * ''Strictly Whatever'' with Harry Manx (Stony Plain, 2011) * ''Field Recording'' (Poverty Playlist, 2013) * ''Ernesto and Delilah'' with Rebecca Jenkins (Poverty Playlist, 2015) * ''Johnny Goldtooth and the Chevy Casanovas'' (Stony Plain, 2017) * ''Stella Bella Strada'' (Stony Plain, 2019) * ''Yearning Soul Rebellion'' (2022) * ''Breit Workman'' with Hawksley Workman (2022)
===As guest=== * 1995 ''Just Your Fool'', Carlos del Junco Band (BRRCD-1) * 1996 ''New Moon Daughter'', Cassandra Wilson – (Blue Note) * 1999 ''Traveling Miles'', Cassandra Wilson – (Blue Note) * 2000 ''Romantically Helpless'', Holly Cole – (Alert Records) * 2002 ''Come Away with Me'', Norah Jones (Blue Note) * 2003 ''Shade (Holly Cole album)'', (Alert Records) * 2003 ''Johnny's Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash'', (Northern Blues) * 2004 ''Feels Like Home'', Norah Jones (Blue Note) * 2004 ''Live in 2004'', Norah Jones and the Handsome Band (Blue Note)
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==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.kevinbreit.com/ The Sisters Euclid and Kevin Breit Website] * [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-sisters-euclid-mn0001361732/biography The Sisters Euclid at AllMusic]
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