This past Saturday I saw Genticorum at the Blackstone River Theater in Cumberland, Rhode Island (http://riverfolk.org/). It's small (the stage looked like it...
Salut, guys, In Toronto this past Sunday night, I had the great pleasure to see Les Tireux d'Roches. Six band members, a wall of terrific traditional Quebecois...
Salut, tout le monde ! I'm a French professor in Texas, obsessed with Québécois culture and musique trad (La Volée d'Castors, Le Vent du Nord, Mauvais Sort,...
Bonjour Todd! Mais oui, il y a http://www.cfnj.net/ qui diffuse des émissions de musique traditionnelle durant les week-ends. Regarde dans la grille horaire...
Montreal-based group Reveillons! (Richard Forest, les Freres Berthiaume, Marc Maziade) will be the Quebecois entry at the http://www.danceflurry.org festival...
Hey Walt! I saw them the next night in Portland, ME at One Longfellow Square! The theater was similar to what you described...small and intimate. The guys...
Hi everyone, A brief message from Michel Riopel, organiser of the Chantez-Vous Bien Chez Nous festival on the 20, 21, 22 of February: last year, some poor...
Hi Sue, Hmmm, "one from New Hampshire . . . " Bet I know who that was! It was pretty snowy on my way home Sunday, but fortunately it let up around Providence....
The 49th University of Chicago Folk Festival will happen 6-8 February 2009. Lisa Ornstein and André Marchand are featured performers at the evening concerts...
Bonjour, Quebecois traditional music fiddler, *David Boulanger*, and Quebecois women choral music group,* 'Galant, tu perds ton temps' *will perform at the ...
A visit to Sucrerie de la Montagne, close to Montreal: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/travel/08explorer.html?emc=eta1 They have live music while you eat....
*Hi Walt,* ** *If we want to believe French Wikipédia, here's my rough translation of what they say: "Rigodons are folk songs and danses originally from the...
Consulte www.mnemo.qc.ca Benoit To: QueTrad@yahoogroups.com From: toddptx@... Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:23:09 +0000 Subject: [QueTrad] Concerts au mois de...
Greetings, everyone! Does anyone know the traditional figures for the dance "La cardeuse"? I assume that the dance goes with the crooked version of the tune,...
I don't know about finding the dance for La Cardeuse, but for dancing in general, Trente Sous Zero (http://www.trentesouszero.com) lists a few video/book...
Also, if you join the Association Quebecois Loisirs Folklorique, each magazine (bi-monthly) exhibits a tune transcribed by Michel Mallette (usually having...
Simonne Voyer provides choreographies for two different versions of ¨La cardeuse¨(from Arvida and Baie Ste-Catherine) in her book _La danse traditionnelle...
Can hardly wait to see 2008 Felix award-winner Nic Pellerin with his new trio here at the end of the month (in celebration of La semaine de la francophonie)!...
... They'll be playing all over New England that week: March 24: Kieran Community Center, Berlin, NH March 25: Franco-American Heritage Center, Lewiston, ME ...
Hi Linda, I look forward to it ! http://www.myspace.com/nicolaspellerin Simon Lepage, Jean-Philippe Rény, Nicolas Pellerin Chers QueTradoises, Their myspace...