Category: Quebecois Music
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: Genticorum!
And now we come to the one band of my top seven about whom I had not previously done a recommendations post, an oversight I shall now be correcting with great pleasure. Because, O Internets, it’s now time for me to enthuse about Genticorum! You’ve seen me post about these boys already, how I got…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer!
I said it before and I’ll say it again: goddamn, the gentlemen of Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer can SING. When it comes to hardcore fangirling, okay yeah, I’m flying my fangirl flag VERY high for Genticorum, De Temps Antan, and especially Le Vent du Nord… but musically speaking, the Charbonniers are right up there fighting…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: Galant, tu perds ton temps!
Here we have another band who dropped a new album since I put up my original recommendations post about them: Galant, tu perds ton temps! As with previous posts in this series, pretty much everything I said in the first one for the Galant ladies still holds true–with the notable exception that they do have…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: La Bottine Souriante!
As I’ve written before, La Bottine Souriante has the distinction of being the first Quebec band I ever saw perform live, and I said a great deal about them on this post over here. Most of what I had to say there still stands, with some notable exceptions. First and foremost, as of this writing,…
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Quebec band recommendations, round 2: La Volée d'Castors!
I posted back in 2011 about my recommendations for La Volée d’Castors, who remain one of my top favorite Quebec bands even though they’ve more or less gone inactive. Much of what I said in that previous post still holds true! But since I did that post I did in fact pick up their holiday…
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A guide to Quebec trad for English speakers
Internets, as you all know, I’ve been happily fangirling Quebec traditional music for a couple of years now, and quite a few of you have started to ask me questions about it. And because I like you, Internets, and I want to share with you the musical goodness, I’d like to present for you a…
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Two more fun pics of me and De Temps Antan
Dara put up a few posts of her own detailing her POV of our adventures in Harrison Hot Springs, including a loverly picspam of various things we looked at. Including a couple of shots off of her camera of me and the boys of De Temps Antan! I particularly like this one, of my reaction…
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And now, to solve an ongoing problem
My belovedest of Daras is at a bit of a loss when it comes to comprehending my rampageous affection for Quebecois traditional music. She doesn’t speak a lick of French, and so I could mention any one of the various bands I’m following, only to have their names just parse to her as “French sounds”.…
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Harrison Hot Springs BC July 2013 trip, Day 3: De Temps Antan, Round 2
In which our heroine and supervillain hike around the lake, in which the mammoth makes a break for it (but is thankfully recovered!), in which the festival suffers an accident (which we do not see), and in which perfectly ridiculous amounts of fun are had seeing De Temps Antan–and then getting pics with them afterwards!…
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Harrison Hot Springs BC July 2013 trip, Day 2: De Temps Antan, Round 1
In which our heroine and her supervillain spend their first full day in Harrison on beach exploration, music played and music watched, and lake wading! And in which De Temps Antan rocks the afternoon with sunglasses and a bouzouki that can goddamn roar!