Joel Nascimento

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| caption = George Lyons and Bob Yosco, from their 1917 sheet music, "Macaroni Joe."

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| birth_date = 13 November 1937

| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro

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| occupation = Musician, composer, mandolin, multi-instrumentalist

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Joel Nascimento (Rio de Janeiro, October 13, 1937) is a musician, mandolin, multi-instrumentalist Brazilian.{{Cite web |url=http://musicosdobrasil.com.br/joel-nascimento |title=Músicos do Brasil: Uma Enciclopédia Instrumental |access-date=2016-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403151033/http://musicosdobrasil.com.br/joel-nascimento |archive-date=2016-04-03 |url-status=dead }} He toured with John McLaughin, Paco de Lucia, Raphael Rabello and Arthur Moreira Lima.{{cite web|URL=http://cliquemusic.uol.com.br/artistas/ver/joel-nascimento|title=Joel Nascimento|work=CliqueMusic|publisher=UOL|access-date=30 May 2014|archive-date=14 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314171220/http://cliquemusic.uol.com.br/artistas/ver/joel-nascimento|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dicionariompb.com.br/joel-nascimento|title=Joel Nascimento (biografia)|publisher=Cravo Albin da MPB|access-date=30 May 2014}} He was labeled by historian Paul Sparks "perhaps the leading player of the present day" for his skill as a performance mandolinist.{{cite book |last=Sparks |first=Paul |date=1995 |title=The Classical Mandolin |location= Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press |page=182 |isbn=978-0-19-517337-6}}