Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has seve ...
and the Magdalen Islands, whose style is rooted in
Acadian music
The Acadians (french: Acadiens , ) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Most Acadians live in the region of Acadia, as it is the region where the des ...
Acadie Nouvelle
''L'Acadie Nouvelle'' is an independent French newspaper published in Caraquet, New Brunswick, Canada since June 6, 1984. It is published from Monday through Saturday and is the only French-language daily newspaper in New Brunswick.
History
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'', January 8, 2019. The group consisted of vocalists and instrumentalists Pastelle and Emmanuelle LeBlanc, and instrumentalist Pascal Miousse, but Pastelle LeBlanc died of breast cancer in 2022 at age 42. The group is most noted for their 2018 album ''Horizons'', which received a
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...
Juno Awards of 2019
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. The band includes instruments such as fiddle, electric guitar,
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
,
mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...
, whistles, jaw harp, foot percussion and bodhran.
''Horizons'' also won several awards from Music PEI, including best francophone artist, group recording and roots traditional recording."Vishtèn nominated for Juno Award"
CBC News
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Prince Edward Island, January 29, 2019. In 2018 they also collaborated with Joseph Edgar, Robin-Joël Cool, Wanabi Farmeur, Caroline Savoie, and
Édith Butler
Édith Butler (born Marie Nicole Butler, 27 July 1942) is an Acadian-Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist of from New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula.
Biography
Édith Butler was born in Paquetville on the Acadian Peninsula in Glouces ...
on the album ''Grand tintamarre ! - Chansons et comptines acadiennes'', which 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 ...
* East Coast Music Awards (ECMA)
** 2019 Recording of the year - Folk/Trad for ''Horizons''
** 2016 Recording of the year - Roots/Trad for ''Terre Rouge''
** 2013 Francophone album of the year for ''Mosaïk''
** 2006 Francophone album of the year for ''11:11''
** 2002 Media's’ choice
* Music PEI
** 2021 Francophone Artist of the year
** 2021 Livestream of the year
** 2020 Francophone Artist of the year
** 2019 Francophone Artist of the year
** 2019 Traditional recording of the year for ''Horizon''
** 2016 Francophone Artist of the year
** 2008 Francophone artist of the year
** 2008 Album of the year for ''Live''
** 2008 Traditional group of the year
* La Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec (SPACQ)/ The Professional Society of Authors and Composers of Québec
** 2015 Édith Butler Prize – Canadian francophonie