Trad from Quebec?

[Celtpastor]

Hi! I'd like to find some more nice trad music from Quebec than just LBS and Matapat. Can anyone recommend any bands/boxplayers from Quebec - if possible, also with CD-advises (incl. places to order them)?
Don't be too surprised to find that question in the string-forum as well - I just looove it, when french-Canadian fiddle&box go together...

[StevieJ]

Try these ones for starters, they are all superb.

Raz-de-Marée (aka Tidal Wave for US audiences) http://www.tidalwavemusic.com/index_eng.html - great dance band with Sabin Jacques on box, one of the best of the younger players, and his wife Rachel Aucoin on piano, absolutely brilliant musician.

Genticorum - http://www.genticorum.com/ . Young trio having a lot of success internationally. Pascal Gemme is a great fiddler, Yann Falquet a great guitarist, and Alexandre Garand plays great bass and flute.

Galant tu perds ton temps - http://www.galanttuperdstontemps.ca/ almost-all-female mainly vocal ensemble.

De temps antan - http://detempsantan.qc.ca/ featuring the superb fiddling of André Brunet, and the box player is pretty good too.

If the band websites don't tell you how to get hold of CDs, try http://www.trentesouszero.com/

[MTGuru]

I should add a word for my friends Les têtes de violon, and their CD "Airs tordus", focusing on unique Québecois crooked tunes and unison fiddle. Also from Trente Sous Zéro. There's a photo of the group on the main Catalogue page, and a CD description here (CD Numéro 1 !):

http://www.trentesouszero.com/001.html

[StevieJ]

Well that's about all I was doing, MTG, putting a word in for friends of mine, mostly (don't know any of the Galant girls though I did work with the lone fellow about 10 years ago).

It sounds as though your friends have a thing about "tounes croches" - some people make a bit of a fetish of them. I find them annoying mostly (the tunes, that is). A friend of mine is about to start writing a doctoral thesis about them, would you believe.

[Celtpastor]

I DO admit - I just LOVE those crooked tunes! Maybe it's because I'm not a dancer. Or maybe, because, through Bulgarian music et c., I'm used to "strange" rhythms - but to my ears, they somehow "spice" celtic (and related) music somehow, that I find every now and then, generally speaking, a bit too straight sometimes...
Thanx for all the help (, though ordering a CD via internet from Trente sous Zero from Europe is nor really simple... )!

Merci beaucoup, mes amis, pour m'aider!

Tres cordiallement -

Votre

Pasteur Celte

[MTGuru]

I find them annoying mostly (the tunes, that is).

Aren't they supposed to be annoying?

Seriously, I'm not sure exactly how they came to the project and the specific interest in these airs foutus. Jumper/Jonathan here on the board would know more about that. Judy and Greg Raskin are fine musicians, and Judy is an outstanding Irish fiddler as well.

I like the tunes myself, or at least a CD's worth of them.

De rien, Celtpastor. A chacun son goût !

[Padre]

Le Vent Du Nord
did somebody mentioned la bottine souriante already?

[Celtpastor]

Yes, VdN are great, LBS I already mentioned! Btw - I found the first solo-album of Yves Lambert a bit weak (at least compared to LBS!). I hear, he's got a 2nd out - is that one better?

[StevieJ]

http://www.lapruchelibre.com/lambert/