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French-Canadian folk music is generally performed to accompany dances such as the jig, jeux dansé, ronde, cotillion, and quadrille. The fiddle is perhaps the most common instrument utilized and is used by virtuosos such as Jean Carignan , Jos Bouchard , and Joseph Allard .
Festival du Bois is an annual Francophone festival held in the Maillardville neighbourhood of Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. This year, Festival du Bois will be held from March 24 to 26. [ 1 ] Produced by Societe francophone de Maillardville, the festival celebrates French Canadian history, art and culture.
In contrast to the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, also held during the summer months, the Francos focuses on popular music performed chiefly in the French language or by performers from Francophone countries. Musical styles such as rock, pop, chanson, hip-hop, rai, folk, punk, and many others are featured during the festival's run ...
The Miramichi Folksong Festival is the oldest folk music festival in Canada. It is held annually in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada.It was established by folklorist and historian Louise Manny in response to a request from British politician and newspaperman Lord Beaverbrook that she document the traditional songs of his boyhood home.
Francouvertes is an annual music festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which spotlights emerging francophone and indigenous musical artists from Quebec. [1]At the end of each year's festival, three finalists are named, following which a jury presents an award of $10,000 to an artist chosen as the best artist of the festival.
French settlers brought music with them when inhabiting what is now Quebec and other areas throughout Canada. Since the arrival of French music in Canada, there has been much intermixing with the Celtic music of Anglo-Canada. French-Canadian folk music is generally performed to accompany dances like the jig, jeux dansé, ronde, cotillion, and ...
This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods. Handicrafting has long been exhibited at such events and festival-like gatherings, as it has its roots in the rural crafts .
The principal instrument for Canadian folk music is known to be the fiddle. The first record of a fiddle in Canada is in 1645 at a wedding in Quebec on the 27th of November. After this account it seems that reports of fiddles are rare for the next 100 years. [ 4 ]