Gee I haven't been to a danse for years now but reading you just dipped me back in it. "Dip 'n dive", I think, is originally an english dance and as for it's...
Re : that TV special program which Le Vent du Nord taped with The Chieftains ... (would that be CBC TV?) (I will be "listening live" on the net, myself...) ...
Salut, I was just looking for something on Google and came across this site on Jean-Francois Berthiaume. He was at Memoire et Racines last year (performing...
oboy, i'm jumping out of my skin ! this happened last year too. take a look at the newly updated Memoire et Racines site. It's less than 2 months away. I...
ok, WOW. I had not gotten through the right part of the website yet. I got stuck on the links page ! There are many many more artists than what I cut and...
Salut Lucy, ... Vulgar actually means "in the common language". The "vulgate" is the Latin version of the Bible which everyone understands because Latin is...
Patrick, yes-yes-yes! I remember the "vulgate" term now. Geez I didn't retain much from 7 years in the Catholic school. Thanks very much. Lucy P.S. too bad I...
Just to make things more confusing, the album notes to Philippe Bruneau's CD Accordeon Diatonique get this point wrong. He plays the Louis Blanchette version...
I'm trying to plan in earnest for a trip to M&R this summer - and hoping I can afford it. Can anyone recommend a way to find or at least determine the cost of...
Hi Winslow, I wrote to you offlist as well. I didn't spend a lot of money on food, fyi. The festival food is good and inexpensive, which is nice (I did not...
Hi again Winslow, Since you are trying to calculate the cost of your trip, I thought I would tell you about "spending" on the weekend in general. That's why I...
Bonjour , About the price of gas , I have a foggy memory about some kind of gas tax deduction for tourists , under some kind of regulation I remember that...
Thanks Henry, I will look into the gas tax credit for tourists. Not that beer has anything to do with gas ; ) but the co-worker who I rarely see at work, and...
Thetre is some sort of provision that visitors to Canada can get a refund on any GST (a national sales tax) they may pay on purchases made while in Canada. You...
Salut, Here in US... "Joe Derrane has been chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts as a National Heritage Fellowship recipient for 2004. It is America's...
Hi, for a while I've been wanting to get a portable cd player with variable tempo or variable tempo/pitch, and I put off buying one cuz the only one I knew...
Salut, Ok, so Bernard really is leaving the group. I heard about this a few months ago from a fiddler from another band, but had not heard it from the horse's...
Hi Lucy, Simon is really the Eric's brother. I know Bernard's leaving since a few
weeks but I'm happy to have an other show to listen his voice last time. I...
Yes GST applies to Gasoline too.... but it's only a small part of all four taxes that applie to gas here.... Marcel ... mail ... works ... thought ... That's ...
Ah yes, Bernard is like that. I mean he can't stay too long with a group and has to see some other land or try some other things. He's been with La Bottine...
Ouais, I got that feeling that he can't stay in one place too long (the itch to move on). He was in a few groups during his 10 years in Brittany.......
Hi, I've just updated, on my site, the list of sessions in French speaking countries or areas. Bienvenue! ;-) -- Dominique Renaudin http://domren.free.fr...
... though !..... ... Hi, I will go to M&R on sunday. I will see Mystral (with very good fiddler Émilie Brulé), Les chauffeurs à Pied (band from Quebec...
No Mario Forest is not related to Richard other than being a great musician too.... He's the one that taught me to play harmonica decently and, more important,...
I'm cross-posting over a few lists... Saline Celtic Festival - Saturday July 10 (workshops, a dinner (ticketed) and ceilidh (free) Friday night, July 9) This...
another festival cross-post message... ALGOMATRAD - Julie Schryer and Pat O'Gorman's brand new family music & dance camp (Algoma Traditional Music and Dance...
Salut le monde ! I received this press release. My kinda festival ! This 11-day-long international fest is in Drummondville, Québec. Les Québécois really...
Bonsoir, *Qué trad fiddler Jean-Pierre Joyal, step-dancers Pierre Chartrand and Martine Billette and Qué trad musicians Paul Marchand and Stéphane Landry,...
Have you noticed that , exception to the word " folkothèque ", the word " folklore " had been carefully avoided in the texts ? Even when the official name...
