The Université de
Napierville (University of Napierville) holds many pages with
photos, historical notes, and musical clips; start by this
page. This venerable institution also covers many other topics
which will surely interest our readers.
The
session is officially dedicated to irish traditional
music (ITM) — some of the members are quite "rigid" about this subject
— but one can find a few french-canadian pieces.
The Fiddler's
Companion, a VERY well documented web site for fiddlers of all
breeds; irish, scottish, american, and, of course, french-canadian.
The
reel
thing, a congenial site on irish traditional music.
La Société pour la
Promotion de la Danse Traditionnelle Québécoise (SPDTQ), (the Society for the
Promotion of French-canadian Traditional Dance) an excellent place to
take classes (jig, violin, accordeon, harmonica... I personally took
penny whistle classes in this school), to buy CDs, or get the latest
news.
Mnémo, a site compiling various
publications, documents and archives on french-canadian traditional
music, dance, signing and story telling — a must-see!
L'Association québcoise des loisirs
folklorique (AQLF)
(the
Quebecois
Association on Folkloric Pastimes) is a treasure trove
of information and ressources for all those interested in
french-canadian music and dance.
The digital recordings section of the
Bibliothèque des archives nationales du Québec (Quebec's National Archives Library).
The Encyclopedia
of
Music
in Canada... whose name is self-explanatory.
Pascal
Gemme's
blog: Blog
TradQuebec. Pascal, is a fiddler and composer playing for Genticorum. This blog is
spin-off of his teaching classes.
Another good blog on the subject is Christiane
Campagna's, Chroniques
Trad. Ms. Campagna also co-hosts Tradosphère (see below).
The
Virtual
Gramophone, of Library and Archives Canada, where you can find
biographies but, mostly, a very impressive quantity of digitalized 78
rpm or even cylinder recordings — indispensable.
Les Danseurs et
musiciens de l'Île Jésus (DMIJ)
(The
Dancers
and Musicians of Île Jésus), an amateur association of
french-canadian music enthousiasts.
Pages
by Manu Savinelli from the folk group "Le
Diabl'
dans
la fourche" — on MySpace (here) and on the Web (here). Generous, passionate,
and excellent musician... the best recipy to promote french-canadian
traditional music... all the way from Normandy!
Radiotrad's blog where one can
find interviews with many french-canadian musicians.
Harmonicanuk,
a
small
but interesting site on harmonica in traditional
french-canadian music.
Tradosphère is a very good radio
show on the subject that airs on CIBL 101.5, on Thuesdays from 20h30 to 22h — all shows are also available as podcasts
(beware, you'll get hooked).
A curiosity for those who read Italian; there is a french-canadia trad
group in Milan, the Andrea
Capezzuoli e compagnia.
Whistlers du Québec : a
blog (in French) for whistle players to be.
References
Danse ce
soir!, Fiddle and Accordion Music of Québec, Laurie Hart & Greg
Sandlle, Mel Bay, 2001, ISBN 0-7866-6630-7. On the accompanying CD, the
musicians are Laurie Hart, Greg Sandell, Stéphane Landry, Paul
Marchand, André Marchand, Jean-Claude Mirandette, and Pierre Chartrand.
La grande ronde, Dorothée Hogan, Éditions Mnémo, 2001, ISMN
M-9001330-0-7
Musiciens traditionnels du Québec (1920-1993),
Gabriel Labbé, VLB éditeur, 1995, ISBN 2-89005-616-3
Paroles et musique, Madame Bolduc, Lina Remon, Guérin, 1995,
ISBN-2-7601-2483-5
