I have been putting together a list of camps, etc on the west coast that have
(or sometimes have) some amount of Quebecois music and posting it to our local
Yahoo group for Quebecois music in the San Francisco Bay area
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QueTradSF) when I post announcements about our
monthly session. I recently added some info about camps and festivals on the
east coast, so I thought that might be of interest to folks in this group. Let
me know of anything I missed.

David


OTHER WEST COAST EVENTS (camps, etc):

June 28-July 4 2009
Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend WA
Lisa Ornstein, Normand Miron, André Marchand
Nightingale
tutors: Kevin Carr, Devon Leger, Louis Leger
http://www.centrum.org/fiddle/ft-faculty.html

July 4-11
American Dance and Music Week
Mendocino Woodlands
Raz de Marée/Tidal Wave
(Stuart Kenney, Rachel Aucoin, Sabin Jacques & Eric Favreau)
http://www.tidalwavemusic.com/
www.bacds.org/amweek

July 5-11
BACDS Family Week, Sonora CA
Kevin Carr, Paul Kotapish, Ray Bierl, Kathrine Gardner, David Brown & others
http://www.bacds.org/familycamp/ or
http://familydancecamp.org/

Saturday July 11
Raz de Marée/Tidal Wave
San Rafael contra dance
http://www.nbcds.org
www.tidalwavemusic.com/

Fri July 24
Hillbillies from Mars
SF Contra
http://www.bacds.org

July 31-Aug 8 2009
Lark in the Morning Mendecino CA
http://www.larkcamp.com/staff.html

David Cahn: Quebecois Button Accordion
Kevin Carr: French Canadian Session, Irish Tenor Banjo

Aug 2009
Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School
Boulder Creek CA (Santa Cruz mountains)
(no Quebecois staff this year)
http://www.valleyofthemoon.org

Sept 2009
Sebastopol Celtic Festival
http://www.cumuluspresents.com
(no Quebecois performers listed so far for this year)

Sept 4-7
Fiddling Frog Dance Festival
Tidal Wave
Camp Cedar Glen near Julian In the foothils between Los Angeles and San Diego
http://www.caldancecoop.org/cgi/lddadriver.cgi

end of Dec-beg of Jan
Camp New Harmony at Camp Newman (between Santa Rosa & Calistoga)
SF Folk Music Club
http://www.sffmc.org/harmony_body.html

Sat/Sun, March 2010
Festival du Bois, Coquitlam, BC
http://www.festivaldubois.ca

June 2010
Alasdair Fraser's Sierra Fiddle Camp
near Nevada City, CA.
http://www.sierrafiddlecamp.org

June 2010
San Francisco Free Folk Festival
http://www.sffolkfest.org/


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East Coast Camps:

July 19 - 25, 2009

Northern Week at Ashokan
Tidal Wave
Marie-Soleil Pilette - Québécois step and social dances
http://www.ashokan.org/ashokan/campnw.shtml

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July 19-24
Violon Trad Québec Camp
Camp Mariste at Rawdon (Quebec)
André Brunet, Stéphanie Lépine, Michel Bordeleau, Valérie Gauthier, Éric
Beaudry, Martine Billette

http://www.violontradquebec.com/eng/accueil.html

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Aug 3-6
Celtic College
Goderich Celtic College,
Goderich Ontario
http://www.celticfestival.ca/celtic-college.html

followed by
Goderich Celtic Roots Festival (see below)

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Aug 12-14
Rendez-vous d'Août
Montreal
presented by SPDTQ

Daniel Lemieux et Richard Forest au violon, Louis-Simon Lemieux au violon et
harmonica, Gabrielle Bouthillier à la chanson, Mario Loiselle au piano, De Temps
Antan avec André Brunet (violon), Pierre-Luc Dupuis (accordéon) et Éric Beaudry
(guitare).
Pierre Chartrand & Normand Legault (danse)

http://espacetrad.org/activites/rendez-vous-daout/

followed by
http://granderencontre.com/
Grande Rencontre


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August 17-21
Old Songs French Accent Week
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S Main St, Voorheesville, NY
10 miles southeast of Albany, NY

Pascal Gemme and singer/guitarist Yann Falquet of
Genticorum, cellist Natalie Haas, dancer Marie-Soleil Pilette, fiddlers Donna
Hébert and Daniel Boucher,
accordion/pianist Jeremiah McLane and guitarist Max Cohen

www.oldsongs.org/camps.html

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August 28-30, 2009
TopHill Music's Quebecois Music Immersion Weekend
Angels Rest Conference and Retreat Center, Leyden Massachusetts

Phone:
4135752148
Email:
tophillmusic@...

Description
This getaway weekend intensive is ideal for any musician interested in learning
about and playing traditional French Canadian quebecois music. Immerse yourself
in traditional quebecois rhythms and melodies through this fantastic weekend
with members of Tidal Wave; Sabin Jaques-accordion, Rachel Aucoin-piano, Stuart
Kenney-upright bass and banjo, and Eric Favreau-fiddle.

Respond to tophillmusic @aol.com for brochure.


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Festivals:

Friday, July 10
Burlington Vermont Celebrates Champlain: Burlington is celebrating 400 years.
Located on Lake Champlain, they will be having "Quebec Day" on Friday, July 10,
with free concerts by La Vent Du Nord, Les Charboniers de l'Enfer (Quebecois
acapella), among others. Website:
http://celebratechamplain.org/content/view/175/123/


Jul 24-26
Festival Memoire et Racines
Joliette, Quebec
http://www.memoireracines.qc.ca

Aug 7-9, 2009
Goderich Celtic Roots Festival
Goderich Ontario
http://www.celticfestival.ca

Aug 14-16, 2009
Grande Rencontre
Montreal
http://granderencontre.com/

Sept 11-13, 2009
Chants de Vielles
Calixa-Lavallée, Quebec
http://chantsdevielles.com/

Oct 9-17, 2009
Celtic Colours
primarily Cape Breton music, but there is some Irish & Quebecois
various locations, Cape Breton
http://www.celtic-colours.com

Feb 2010
Festival de musique traditionnelle de St-Bernard
http://www.chantezvous.com