Tag: quebecois music

  • Quebecois tunes roundup post!

    Quebecois tunes roundup post!

    I’ve been chatting a lot with Dreamwidth user fluterbev lately, and we’ve started swapping pointers to each other’s favorite tunes! I promised her I’d do a post with some pointers to various Quebec tunes I’ve been working on learning lately, not only for her but for anybody else out there who might be interested in…

  • Musical adventures at Folklife!

    Musical adventures at Folklife!

    Those of you local to the Seattle area know that Memorial Day weekend is Folklife, and and I being well, us, of course we’re hitting the festival as much as possible this weekend! Yesterday’s adventures started off with an Irish session, apparently the first one at Folklife in four years, and which turned out to…

  • To the person who just hit my site looking for Le Vent du Nord sheet music

    To the person who just hit my site looking for Le Vent du Nord sheet music

    Google Analytics informs me that you just hit my site three different times looking for sheet music for the Le Vent du Nord instrumental “Petit rêve III”! First of all, hello to someone who’s clearly a fellow fan, as well as being musically inclined! Second, sorry I have no leads on such a thing, though…

  • Another tune I figured out!

    Another tune I figured out!

    To follow up on yesterday’s post of musical squee, I am delighted to report that that wasn’t actually the only fun musical thing I pulled off this weekend! As I reported earlier this week, session folks are encouraging me to learn Genticorum’s lovely little ditty “Valse de poeles” (Waltz of the Stoves). It was played…

  • That squeal of delight you just heard was me

    That squeal of delight you just heard was me

    Because, O Internets, I just more or less figured out the rest of “Manteau d’hiver”! Which, for those of you who may just be joining in, is my very favorite instrumental by Le Vent du Nord, off of their current album Tromper le temps. I adore it to bits, as I have fangirlishly squealed about…

  • New music picoreview roundup #1

    New music picoreview roundup #1

    This being the first of a flurry of mini-reviews of all the various albums I’ve picked up lately! “Come What May”, by Ad Vielle Que Pourra: Mostly instrumental, but with a lot of hurdy-gurdy goodness. The hurdy-gurdy here isn’t nearly at the powerhouse level that Le Vent du Nord delivers, but that’s not a bad…

  • Session report!

    Session report!

    I begin to feel like I’m getting my feet under me at our local Quebecois session! And that every so often, my feet can actually do something interesting! Literally and figuratively. ‘Cause really, at a Quebec session, I want my hands and my feet to be doing interesting things. 😉 Tonight though was mostly about…

  • Album review: Errance, by Bon Debarras

    I give an awful lot of fangirling time to Le Vent du Nord, De Temps Antan, and the Charbonniers, it’s true–but there is a lot more to be found in the genre of Quebecois trad, and I’ve got quite a few other groups represented in my collection at this point. One of these is Bon…

  • Le Vent du Nord at Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria BC, 4/6/2013

    Le Vent du Nord at Hermann's Jazz Club, Victoria BC, 4/6/2013

    I made absolutely no secret of how crushed I was, Internets, when I missed Le Vent du Nord’s Oregon show this past November. And I was quite disappointed as well when the symphony show in Vancouver was cancelled. But tonight, I am thrilled to report that the show at Hermann’s Jazz Club in Victoria, BC,…

  • Le Vent du Nord Plan B is GO

    Le Vent du Nord Plan B is GO

    Because I am damn well going to see some Le Vent du Nord SOMEWHERE this coming weekend, I have now enacted Plan B: going to the Victoria show on Saturday night! Advantages to this plan: Dara is coming with me so I’ll have oodles more fun anyway Dara and I have never been to Victoria…