Category: Festival

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All the festivals (2022-2023)!

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With each passing year, there are more and more festivals that feature or are predominantly comprised of francophone music. Although there are French-language resources that provide you with that information, our hope is to provide English-language communities access to a summary of the festivals available to you this summer. Dates Festival Description June 17-21Quebec City, Place Jean-Béliveau, at ExpoCité Festival Kwe! – fr | en “KWE! Meet with the Indigenous Peoples’ aims to highlight the 11 indigenous Nations present in Quebec through artistic and musical performances, workshops on traditional knowledge, discussions on the issues and realities affecting indigenous communities and Read More …

Danse Neige : no Toronto Session

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Just letting you all know that there will be no session this weekend.  But there is a great recurring event called Danse Neige, which is a usually a great dance weekend in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.  This year, it is this weekend, online, and free to sign up.The learning sessions have already started, but it’s not too late to join.On the program:Today SATURDAY 20 MARCH 2021 WORKSHOPS Virtual Room A Virtual Room B 10h Accordéon intermédiaire | Gino Lavoie Gigue 3/2 | Yaëlle Azoulay 11h Volon intermédiaire | Lisa Ornstein Chanson | Nicolas Boulerice 12h Conte | Donald Dubuc 13h Read More …

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Session: Sunday, January 19, 2020

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Happy new year to you all. We are delighted to welcome you all to the regular session this Sunday, but we would like to inform you of some changes for this weekend only. This weekend, the new, non-profit Speak Music Be Kind Canadian music festival is taking over the Tranzac. They have kindly agreed to let us hold the session anyway, but have asked us to stop by when we arrive and tell them we are playing in the session. They will give us a wristband (the festival is a paid event). Check out the line-up on their website. The Read More …

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July session and other events

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There is indeed a session this coming Sunday, as usual from noon to 2:45 pm at the Tranzac Club. See you all there! That said, this is a busy time for lovers of Quebecois music! Hope some of you made it to the Pierre Schryer concert on July 9th. We certainly enjoyed De temps antan at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia that same weekend! Mark your calendars for one or two of these: Friday, July 21, free concert with Le vent du nord (thank you, Elizabeth!). The show starts at 9:30, but get there early to find seats. From Read More …

Session: Sunday, June 18

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Yes, there is a session tomorrow. See you all between noon and 3 pm. If you have ever been lucky enough to attend an AlgomaTrad event (family camp, dance, travelling concert, music or dance workshop, or concert by the O’Shraves  or the Brian Pickell Band), please take a moment to answer a very short, multiple choice online survey. They will use the responses they get when applying for funding to offer more of their engaging and culturally important events and activities. Next weekend (June 23-24) in Hamilton, the annual FrancoFEST “gets Hamilton rocking… in French!”. We are eager to listen Read More …