Mélisande
©lectrotrad'' is a Canadian folk music group, who perform a contemporary spin on traditional
Québécois folk music.
["Melisande (electrotrad): Les Metamorphoses"]
''PopMatters
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'', May 6, 2015. The group's core members are Alexandre « Moulin » de Grosbois-Garand and Mélisande Gélinas-Fauteux, a married couple from
Beloeil,
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
,
["La Grande Rencontre: trad de famille"]
'' La Presse'', May 8, 2014. who perform with a rotating collective of supporting musicians and dancers.
History
Mélisande Gélinas-Fauteux and Alexandre de Grosbois-Garand began playing together in 2007, performing Mélisande's original songs. The two married in 2012 and started working together on mixing traditional songs with electro-pop music. Mélisande's background as pop-rock singer combined with « Moulin » experience has a multi-instrumentalist with Genticorum and other traditional band gave an interesting result.
The band released its first electrotrad album ''Les métamorphoses'' in 2014 on La Prûche Libre,
for which Mélisande won the
Canadian Folk Music Award
The Canadian Folk Music Awards are an annual music awards ceremony presenting awards in a variety of categories for achievements in both traditional and contemporary folk music, and other roots music genres, by Canadian musicians. The awards progr ...
for Traditional Singer of the Year at the
10th Canadian Folk Music Awards. Other players on the album were Robin Boulianne and Mark Busic (producer of the album).
Their second album, ''Les millésimes'', was released in 2017 on Borealis Records, garnering the band two more Canadian Folk Music Award nominations, for Traditional Singer of the Year and Pushing the Boundaries, at the
13th Canadian Folk Music Awards.
"Canadian Folk Music Awards Reveal 2017 Nominees"
''Exclaim
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'', September 21, 2017.
Discography
*''Les métamorphoses'' (2014)
*''Les millésimes'' (2017)
*''Les Myriades'' (2019)
References
External links
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Canadian folk music groups
Musical groups from Quebec
Canadian Folk Music Award winners
Beloeil, Quebec