Tag: dejah leger

  • Festival du Bois Trip, Day 2: Sunday!

    Festival du Bois Trip, Day 2: Sunday!

    Festival du Bois, Day 2! In which I get to see unfamiliar groups like Les Échos du Pacifique, Alouest, and Matuto, and VERY familiar faces like Dejah Léger and De Temps Antan and especially Yves Lambert, King of All the Alligators and Accordions.

  • Supremely awesome people, reprise

    Supremely awesome people, reprise

    That surprise that Dejah promised me if I showed up for this week’s session turned out to be THIS! If pictures are worth a thousand words, this one is worth at least an entire novella. This was in fact the very poster I had given to Dejah myself, one of the extras sent to me…

  • And now, in praise of supremely awesome people

    And now, in praise of supremely awesome people

    One of the things I’ve always loved about Great Big Sea fandom (and a lot of you who have read my posts over the years can back me up on this) is that it’s filled with genuinely wonderful people. I have been deeply privileged to discover that the same can be said for the extended…

  • Festival du Bois in Maillardville, BC, 3/3/2012

    Festival du Bois in Maillardville, BC, 3/3/2012

    Day 3 of my and Dara’s Grand Four-Day Weekend of Marriage and Music was Festival du Bois! I wanted to go to this pretty much as soon as I found out that there was an entire festival of French Canadian and Acadian music going on the very same weekend we were coming up for Le…