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Néo-trad
Néo-trad is a musical style from Quebec that arose around the turn of the 21st century. It can be considered a subgenre of Québécois folk music. The term combines the Greek prefix ''neo'', meaning ''new'', and the contraction of the word ''traditionnelle'', as in ''traditional music''. History It basically constitutes modernized Quebec folklore music, usually mixed with rock and/or electronica. Some notable néo-trad artists are Mes Aïeux, and Les Cowboys Fringants. Okoumé can also be considered a néo-trad precursor. The expression can also encompass all Trad groups, modern bands playing Québécois folklore (in a traditional way) like La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l'enfer, La Volée d'Castors and Les Batinses. Inversely, the term ''Trad'' can encompass ''néo-trad'' groups. See also *List of Quebec musicians *Music of Quebec *Culture of Quebec * List of musical styles *Folklore Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Cowboys Fringants
Les Cowboys Fringants () are a Quebecker folk rock band formed in 1995 in Repentigny, Quebec. The French word ''fringant'' can be translated as "dashing", or "frisky". They perform '' Quebecker'' néo-trad music (modernized Quebec folk music with a rock flavour) and draw on country music. They have an international underground following, especially in France, French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland. Band members hail from the Montreal suburbs of Repentigny and L'Assomption. The entire band collaborates on the lyrics, although guitarist Jean-François Pauzé often contributes more than the others. The band are known for their live performances, captured on the '' Attache ta tuque!'' live album and the ''Centre Bell 30 décembre 2003'' DVD. The band has won 17 Félix Awards, including five at the 2020 edition of the ceremony. The group are five-time Juno Award nominees, winning one in 2024 for Francophone Album of the Year. Overview ''Les Cowboys'' represent an important pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Quebec Musicians
This is a list of singers, bands, composers and other musicians from the province of Quebec. Blues * Garou (singer), Garou – also pop * Okoumé (band), Okoumé – also néo-trad, rock and roll, rock and electronica * Roxanne Potvin – singer, guitarist * David Wilcox (Canadian musician), David Wilcox Chanson * Daniel Bélanger – also electronica * Dan Bigras – also rock * Daniel Boucher (musician), Daniel Boucher * Isabelle Boulay – also country and western * Paul Cargnello – also rock * Gregory Charles * Nicola Ciccone * Leonard Cohen * Les Colocs – also ska and Music of Africa, Africa-inspired music * Sylvain Cossette * Cœur de pirate * Lhasa de Sela * Marc Déry – also electronica * Richard Desjardins * Beau Dommage * Georges Dor * Claude Dubois * Diane Dufresne – also rock * Dumas (musician), Dumas – also electronica * Jean-Pierre Ferland * Serge Fiori * Fred Fortin * Lewis Furey – also rock * Claude Gauthier (singer), Claude Gauthier * Harmonium (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mes Aïeux
Mes Aïeux () is a neo-traditional Quebec folk music group founded in 1996. Style Although a leader of the Quebec " neo-traditional" scene, the band takes a modern slant on that style, borrowing stories and characters from French Canadian folklore (the devil, the chasse-galerie, the shepherdess, the coureur des bois, drinking songs, etc.) to write about modern themes with a touch of humor. These themes include globalization (''Qui nous mène?''), politics (''Ça va mal''), criticism and mockery of the Quiet Revolution (''Dégénérations/Le reel du fossé''), over-medicating (''Remède miracle''), the frenetic pace of modern life (''Train de vie/le surcheval'', ''Continuer pareil''), recent Québécois history (''2096 (chanson à boire)''), etc. Some of their songs involve personalities from Quebec history such as " La Corriveau" (''La Corrida de la Corriveau''), " The Great Antonio" (''Antonio'') and " Alexis le Trotteur" (''Train de vie/le surcheval''). The band also has wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Musical Styles
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folklore Of Quebec
Quebec has a rich history of folklore. Folk tales Folktales were told by ''Raconteurs'', who could tell tales lasting several hours, or even tell a story over the course of several evenings. Christian beliefs and superstitions are present in most Quebec folklore. La chasse-galerie (thflying canoe is a well-known folktale about a group of lumberjacks who make a pact with the devil. Demons, witches, and werewolves were common folk motifs. The tales themselves were referred to by the name ''contes''. The traditional ''conte'' form of story-telling has been adapted to the modern novel by writers such as Roch Carrier and Joseph Jean Jacques Ferron. Some folktales are classified under the traditional genre ''Märchen'' (fairy tales). '' The Devil at the Dance'' is an example in which the Devil was used to reinforce Christian ideals. It is the story of a young couple in love. The girl's parents, who are Heretics, refuse the young man as a suitor after discovering he is Christian. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Folk Music
Canadian folk music has a long history, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, mostly derived from the music of early settlers and much earlier from the music of indigenous people. Folk music thus differentiates between traditional and contemporary. Many of Canada's most influential folk artists emerged in the contemporary folk music era, notably Bruce Cockburn, American-born Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ferron, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Murray McLauchlan, Stan Rogers, Valdy, Penny Lang, The Rankin Family and Wade Hemsworth. Canadian artists in folk rock include The Band, Neil Young, Beau Dommage, Kashtin, Spirit of the West, The Tragically Hip, Great Big Sea, Les Cowboys Fringants, Serena Ryder, and Dan Mangan. In the 1970s, chansonniers grew steadily less popular with the encroachment of popular rock bands and other artists, and many of the folk clubs, such as the Montreal Folk Workshop, and groups such as The Raftsmen, the Mountain Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, myths, legends, proverbs, Poetry, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group. Folklore also encompasses customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, including folk religion, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas, weddings, folk dances, and Rite of passage, initiation rites. Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a Cultural artifact, folklore artifact or Cultural expressions, traditional cultural expression. Just as essential as the form, folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts from one region to another or from one generation to the next. Folklore is not something one can typically gain from a formal school curriculum or study in the fine arts. Instead, thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Quebec
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois society. This term encompasses the arts, literature, institutions and traditions created by Québécois, as well as the collective beliefs, values and lifestyle of Québécois. It is a culture of the Western World. Quebec is the only region in North America with a French-speaking majority, as well as one of only two provinces in Canada where French is a constitutionally recognized official language. As of 2006, 79% of all Quebecers list French as their mother tongue; since French is the official language in the province, up to 95% of all residents speak French. The 2001 census showed the population to be 90.3 percent Christian (in contrast to 77 percent for the wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Batinses
LES or Les may refer to: People * Les (given name) * Les (surname) * L.E.S. (producer), hip hop producer Space flight * Launch Entry Suit, worn by Space Shuttle crews * Launch escape system, for spacecraft emergencies * Lincoln Experimental Satellite series, 1960s and 1970s Biology and medicine * Lazy eye syndrome, or amblyopia, a disorder in the human optic nerve * The Liverpool epidemic strain of ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' * Lower esophageal sphincter * Lupus erythematosus systemicus Places * The Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City * Les, Catalonia, a municipality in Spain * Leş, a village in Nojorid Commune, Bihor County, Romania * ''Les'', the Hungarian name for Leșu Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania * Les, a village in Tejakula district, Buleleng regency, Bali, Indonesia * Lesotho, IOC and UNDP country code * Lès, a word featuring in many French placenames Transport * Leigh-on-Sea railway station, National Rail station code * Leyton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Volée D'Castors
La Volée d'Castors (''A Flock of Beavers'') is a Canadian folk music group formed in 1993. Since the late 1990s, they performed in Quebec and have toured 15 countries. History The band from the Lanaudière region was formed in 1993 by Nicolas Froment, Mathieu Lacas, Martin Mailhot, and Sébastien Parent. Their first album, ''Galant'', was released in 1994. In 1995 they were joined by Frédéric Bourgeois from Sainte-Marie-Salomé, and for the first time they performed outside the province of Quebec, at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario. Réjean Brunet was added to the lineup in 1996, and for a year the ''Castors'' were the official musicians of a traditional Lanaudière dance ensemble, les ''Petits Pas Jacadiens''. They also performed occasional concerts in and around Montreal and Quebec City. 1997 marked a turning point for the band when they produced themselves at a world folk festival in Saint-Malo, France, in their first international performance. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Charbonniers De L'enfer
Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer are an ''a cappella'' folk music group formed in Quebec, Canada, in 1994. History The group is part of a revival in interest in Quebec's folk music. It was formed by five experienced singers who have been part of the regional folk music scene for more than 30 years: Michel Faubert, Normand Miron, Jean-Claude Mirandette, Michel Bordeleau, and André Marchand. Their instrumental accompaniment is limited to the Jew's harp, jaw harp and Podorythmie, foot tapping. The musicians also work in other projects and the band's appearances are relatively rare. The group includes two former members of La Bottine Souriante (Bordeleau and Marchand). On their 2010 album ''Nouvelles fréquentations'' (New Visits), Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer tackle a contemporary repertoire. This includes, among others, works by Neil Young, Félix Leclerc, Noir Désir, Daniel Lanois, Plume Latraverse, Steven "Cassonade" Faulkner, Daniel Lavoie, Florent Vollant, Dédé Fortin, Kate & An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bottine Souriante
La Bottine Souriante (LBS) is a folk band from Canada. The band specializes in traditional Québécois music, often with a modern twist. Formed in 1976 by Yves Lambert, Andre Marchand, and Mario Forest, they have toured extensively through Europe and North America. In 1990, the band integrated a four-piece horn section with traditional instruments, such as the accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, in order to add an element of jazz to their music. In 1998, they contributed a song to the Canadian Celtic music compilation album by The Chieftains, '' Fire in the Kitchen''. The group's name means "the smiling boot", which refers to the appearance of a work boot with worn-out soles. Members The line-up for LBS has changed numerous times (which is not unusual for folk groups), and its sound has evolved accordingly. The band started out with a very French Canadian feel with guitar, accordion and fiddle, but has expanded to include other styles and instruments. Althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
