The Treehouse Café is bringing award winning singer-songwriter Ray Bonneville to Bainbridge for a show on Wednesday, Aug. 16.

Called “the master of the slow burn” by the Ottawa Citizen, and “one of Americana’s foremost singer-songwriters” by the Austin Chronicle, Bonneville has won a Juno award and in 2012 won the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge in the solo/duet category.

He has been described as “a poet of the demimonde,” and his style sometimes draws comparisons to JJ Cale and Daniel Lanois.

Bonneville served a year in Vietnam as a Marine, struggled with and overcame drug addiction, earned a pilot’s license in Colorado and then traveled extensively before settling in Austin, Texas.

Throughout it all, Bonneville played music, whether in one of his bands or as a solo artist. He did not turn to his own personal storybook until 1992, though, when he was 44. It was then he began to write and play his own songs, which led to his 1999 Juno Award, and multiple tours across the U.S., Canada and in Europe.

His post-Katrina ode, “I Am the Big Easy,” earned the International Folk Alliance’s 2009 Song of the Year Award. He has been a guest on albums by Mary Gauthier, Gurf Morlix, Eliza Gilkyson, Ray Wylie Hubbard and other prominent artists, and shared songwriting credits with Tim O’Brien, Phil Roy and Morlix, among others.

Tickets, $22 for reserved seating, for this 21-and-older show are on sale now. Visit www.treehousebainbridge.com to purchase and to learn more.