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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 .
The festival site in Mackin Park includes a main stage tent where mostly Canadian folk, Celtic, and world music artists perform. There is also a children's stage, a workshop tent, art and history displays, tours of the Mackin House Museum, and traditional food including tourtière, poutine, smoked meat sandwiches, maple taffy, and maple sugar pies.
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 ...
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.
Boots and Hearts Music Festival; C. Calgary Folk Music Festival; Capital Hoedown; Carnival of Cultures; Cavendish Beach Music Festival; Celtic Colours; CityFolk Festival;
Reggae festival Canadian Music Week: Toronto: Ontario: Canmore Folk Fest: Canmore: Alberta: Folk festival: Capital Hoedown: Ottawa: Ontario: Country music festival Cavendish Beach Music Festival: Cavendish: Prince Edward Island: Country music festival CBC Music Festival: Toronto: Ontario: Celtic Colours: Cape Breton Island: Nova Scotia: Celtic ...
This annual festival takes place in the heart of the city every August and is dedicated to the cultural traditions of the Celtic nations (pays celtes in French), highlighting Celtic music and dance and also including other arts such as painting, photography, theatre, sculpture, traditional artisanry as well as sport and gastronomy.
musical theatre festival Charlottetown Film Festival Charlottetown PEI [4] Corner Brook Pride Film Festival Corner Brook: NL: LGBT film festival [5] Devour! The Food Film Fest: Wolfville NS [6] Dutch Mason Blues Festival Truro: NS: in August [7] Emerging Lens Film Festival Halifax NS [8] Evolve Festival: Jailletville: NB: originally taking ...