Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
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 .
Francophone music festival Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival [9] August: Dragon boat: Edmonton Folk Music Festival [10] August: Folk music: Edmonton International Beerfest [11] late March – early April: Craft beer and food festival Edmonton International Film Festival [12] late September – early October: Independent film Edmonton International ...
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 .
South Asian Film Festival of Montreal: Montreal: South Asian films [41] Vues d'Afrique: Montreal: African film, music and culture [42] Vues dans la tête de... Rivière-du-Loup: Film [43] Urban Films Festival: Montreal: Qualifying event to select the Canadian submission to France's Urban Films Festival competition: Wakefield Documentary Film ...
Canadian fiddle is the aggregate body of tunes, styles and musicians engaging in the traditional folk music of Canada on the fiddle. It is an integral extension of the Anglo-Celtic and Québécois French [23] folk music tradition but has distinct features found only in the Western hemisphere. [24]