Bonjour, The Acadian Archives at the University of Maine has launched an online version of the book Acadian Culture in Maine, an out-of-print 1994 National ...
Still in the planning stage for our little Quebecois jam session. I told each person to come up with a few tunes and we compiled the following list to practice...
Hi Britt, I haven't made any suggestions yet, but mine would be to bring a CD or tape of the tune that people like, and we could play it so that everybody...
Bonjours Quebecois Pardonnez mon francais, car je suis ne et elevee aux Etats Unis (parents de Quebec). Quand j'etait jeune ma famille m'a donne des cuilleres...
Bonjour , Actually , the name was " bombarde " up to around 1850 , then for some reason it became " guinbarde " and today a bombarde is a Breton wind...
Jean-Claude Mirandette (guitare, banjo) will play as opening act for american musicien Michael Jerome Brown (singer/guitarist/banjo/violon/mando/lapsteel -...
Please feel free to reply in french or english, whichever is comfortable...... (I hope someone will comment, and not leave me standing here.....hee) Bonsoir le...
For myself I'd have to say it's a combination of rediscovery and new discovery. I heard Canadian trad as a child partly in a social environment and partly...
I think that in general, as people age, they begin to understand that histories and traditions are living things, not dead things. For the simple reason that...
I have a friend, a college student, who tells me that her friend's band, a local Ohio band that she used to play with, plays a style of music like La Bottine...
... harmonica site, and it was time well spent. ... to, and they were out of stock. I hope you didn't meet the same fate! ... Jeff - thanks for your nice...
Bonsoir, Here are Guy Bouchard's thoughts.... Once in a while I let him know what we are talking about. I was not asking for his comments, but it seems he felt...
You’re invited to a New Year’s Eve contra dance in Lansing, Michigan No partner or previous experience is necessary Live music by The Golden Griffon...
Winslow, sorry about that. I was pleased to find that kind of merchandise on the web, and shared the link without having had any practical experience with the...
I know this will be of absolutely no help, but I notice you have some ... I obtained a copy recently and when I saw Reel manitoban I knew I'd seen it in...
... some ... tuque ... Au contraire, Winslow, that is helpful. I didn't know where he got those tunes from, I don't have that book...he's gonna give us copies ...
... I'd ... copies ... Dunno; I'll check this evening - you know how it is with names of tunes in Québec. I do have Airs Tordus Vol. 1 in front of me, and all...
Le rell du quêteux tremblay est en fait le Rêve du quêteux Tremblay. Tremblay was the subject of of movie by Michel Brault in Le Quêteux Tremblay (1978)....
... Tremblay. Tremblay was the subject of of movie by Michel Brault in Le Quêteux Tremblay (1978). Living in a small cabin in the forest like an hermit he...
I live and work in the town of Louis Boudreault, Chicoutimi, in Québec. For two years, on every week, I play with a man who own the Pitou's last fiddle,...
Winslow asked about The Quêteux, here's my story about it. Sorry this portion will be in french. Un quêteux est un voyageur itinérant qui demande la...
not hose, but house. I once met a quêteux who has stop by a relative's hose on the road of Pointe-aux-pins, near Saint-Fulgence. [Non-text portions of this...
Luc - Many thanks for this story. It is wonderful to hear about these old- time (maybe not so old) customs or rural life. Anyone living in a modern city is not...
... Yes, but it is written differently. It was composed by Daniel Lemieux, fiddler of Manigance, and father of Louis-Simon Lemieux of les Chauffeurs à pieds....
A few posts back I listed Laura Risk as among those who had recorded le Rêve du quêteux Tremblay. But I'm listening to it and it's a different tune, titled...
I've met a "quêteux" too... When I was young, about 5 or 6 of age their was a man wandering from door to door when weather was cold and my grand-father liked...
I don't know if it's already been said here but "La bottine" has recorded two different arrangements of this reel on one of their first album. They have...
Are any of these films mentioned recently available for purchase or loan? Or should we think about setting up our own, what would be the word, cooperative? ...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
