Salut! I received this holidaytime concert info from Festival Mémoire et Racines. Also, check the Mnémo calendar website. Lucy 18 décembre 2004 Veillée du...
Anyone going to La Veillee in Montreal on December 30 besides the "usual suspects" ; ) from this list? I plan to go again this year. It will be a blast ! ...
I will come at la Veillée, as you know my friend. I will be with 9 friends
this year:) Nice to meet you there BIGGGG PARTYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Brigitte ... De :...
Hi, For people living not too far from Boston, you may be interest to come to see us (Pierre Chartrand, Éric Favreau, Stéphane Landry and Bernard Simard) at...
Bonsoir, Has anyone seen or heard a box set called Quebec En 100 Chansons: 100 Interpretes De 1900? It's a new Canadian release that's available in the States...
Their website doesn't list the tunes either, but there are phone numbers and an email address: http://www.dsuper.net/~xxi-21/ Winslow ... 100 Interpretes De...
Thanks, Winslow. When I find out (assuming it is relevant to QueTrad) I'll let you know. There's another disc I just picked up that I can recommend. It's...
Here is a list of tracks from Quebec En 100 Chansons: 100 Interpretes De 1900. I'm guessing that few of these songs are trad or folk but here goes anyway: CD 1...
At a casual glance, it appears that the earlier part of the list (which looks earlier historically) has several artists who are either in or somewhere close to...
I have this disc, it's quite good. They have the Charbonniers doing a tune that segues from an old field recording taken from an album (Acadie et Québec) of...
Not only that, the liner notes say that while piloting her own plane she dropped flyers advertising her gigs! If it isn't true, then it should be! Are there...
... plane she dropped flyers advertising her gigs! If it isn't true, then it should be! ... Not that I know of. I've mentioned before the one in French that I ...
Hi, There will be trad music live next sunday at radio. The musicians are from Quebec city and they usually play at Barberie Pub. Here's the details : Ti-toine...
Thanks Sylvain, Do you know what media CKRL uses for streaming audio? It doesn't seem to be QuickTime. So I downloaded RealPlayer. No luck there either. Show...
Bonjour Sylvain "l'autre" ?, Thanks. I bit the bullet and downloaded Windows Media Player on my Mac. Listening now. Nice session ! Lucy ... From: Sylvain...
Bonsoir, There's a Canadian gentleman who's selling several French Canadian buttonbox LPs on ebay "Buy it now" at very reasonable prices. I snagged a few...
« Ti-toine Aime les dames » is a weekly radio show by Antoine Gauthier of « Les chauffeurs à pieds ». Usually, it's not live music, Antoine put CDs and...
Sylvain, thanks so much for that "heads up" Friday. I'm glad to know about that radio station. Just on Sunday's programming alone, there are some shows I am...
Bonsoir, Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but I was recently doing a little research to write a paper on the hurdy-gurdy's 1,000-year-old grand-daddy, the ...
Thanks Lucy. Dennis Havlena has a lot of great stuff on his site. I've visited it for info about homemade uilleann pipes and diddle bows. That recording of "En...
Lucy, I did not know what means « craic » and I found this on the net : « Craic (pronounced crack) is the unofficial catchphrase in Ireland for having a...
My (limited) understanding of "craic" as it has been explained to me in a musical context means "a groove"; that is, it makes people tap their toes or want to...
Jeff, "bon ton roulet" is the french words "Bon temps rouler" like in "laisser le bon temps rouler"..... Which means "Let the good time roll".... and as I...
... This reminds me of the stories from Scandinavia, usually explaining that a particular tune was learned from a visiting fiddler at some party where the...
Interesting thread. Interesting tale. I've not heard it before. I am curious to know if there are pre-Christianity "myths" associating the devil with music. ...
... time ... not ... say ... There is a similar American expression, "in the house". For instance, at the beginning of a show like Saturday Night Live the host...
Pre-christian? Don't know. But there are several native american myths like this. Whether these came entirely from christian europeans or whether it also...
Well, for the ancient Greeks, music was an orderly, intellectual thing, associated with Apollo, not Dionysus. There's the story about Robert Johnson selling...
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