Tag: le vent du nord
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Further arrangements for the Canadian Adventure!
Just snagged weekend passes for Dara and me to the Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival, the big festival that was our main reason for going to St. John’s to begin with–even if we’ll be skipping out on it on August 4th to scamper up to Torbay for Great Big Sea instead. 😀 We figured screw…
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Further musical planning for the Great Atlantic Canadian Adventure!
*squeal* Keeping a hawk’s eye on the tour Calendar on leventdunord.com just paid off. Looks like they ARE booked to play on the 28th at Memoire et Racines, the weekend that Dara and I will be in Quebec! Which means that the priority of getting to that festival for a day trip on the 28th…
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Note to my brain: no, you may not write this yet
Memo to my brain: No, you may NOT write a short story based on the Le Vent du Nord song “Le dragon de Chimay”. No matter how awesome a mental image you have in your head of a dragon breaking out of chains that hold him underground and surging up into the open air in…
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Montreal chimes in on the Great Canadian Adventure!
HEL-LO, the Montreal portion of the Great Canadian Summer Adventure just got way, WAY more interesting! I have had THIS brought to my attention–most recently by Monsieur de Grosbois-Garand, that fine gentleman who gave me the nifty flute lesson. I’d already discovered it poking around various band schedules to see if anything fascinating might crop…
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Le Vent du Nord and Genticorum videos!
Because YouTube loves me this weekend and wants me to have awesome things, I bring to you three brand new videos posted by YouTube user bordurat, who clearly has a lock on all the best Quebecois band videos, and two older ones from the same user’s posts. Videos behind the fold! The three new ones…
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Tromper le Temps by Le Vent du Nord: A fangirly and footnoted album review!
How much do the gods of all music love me this month? This much: they have given unto me the shining present of the brand new Le Vent du Nord album, Tromper le Temps! Now, mind you, its official release date on CD is the 25th–but it’s shown up early on the iTunes and Amazon…
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Le Vent du Nord at St. James Hall in Vancouver, 3/1/2012
As you know, O Internets, I was extremely eager for my first Le Vent Du Nord show. I’ve been getting ridiculous amounts of glee out of listening to their albums and watching their YouTube videos, and of course, I had the challenge laid down by fellow Le Vent fan Susan that in her considered opinion,…
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Le Vent du Nord concert sneak peek
The full extended play by play concert blog post is on the way, O Internets, but until I get back to my computer and can write it up properly (with pics because OH MY YES got some), let me share with you some prominent highlights! Dara being stunned to be able to use the phrase…
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A modest announcement 🙂
For those of you who have not already seen this breaking across Facebook, Google+, or Twitter tonight, and I would like to announce that on March 2nd, we will be getting a Canadian marriage license! We were already planning this before today’s Washington state law signed by Governor Christine Gregoire. In fact, we are planning…
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My first Quebecois session: Incroyable!
Tonight, O Internets, I participated in my very first “Chanson et langue” group and Quebecois session at the home of La Famille Léger. And I am here to tell you that that was unmitigated, 100%, home-grown organic AWESOME! (This post is long, so clickie on the cut link for the evening’s adventures!) (And I need,…