Ordinary Day

Woah, that was such a cool story. Glad you like our music ^_^ Since you like Celtic-inspired music, do you also listen to Métis, Acadian, Maritimes and Appalachian music? (I'm not too knowledgeable about Appalachian music though but I bet the area is full of traditions. It's funny because as a Québécois and ethnic French Canadian, I have more kinship with people on the northeast Atlantic coast from other side of the border, than Anglo-Canadians from Toronto and westward all the way to the Pacific. My take is that even though we have different origins and history, we share a common point that is being neighbours for 400 years XD It gave us ample time to build our folklore (and we share some folk creatures too!) and culture of our own, too.)

What do you think about songlyrics? When I show music to non-French speakers and there's no translation available, it's a trip having to explain them that yes, the lyrics are about suicide, alcoholism or familial violence, or Satan doing his shenanigans as per usual (he's the kinda main character of our legends and stories), and yes, the music is all happy like it's nothing.

What about folk and traditional music do you guys have on the other side of the continent? If you have any recs, Indigenous and/or colonial, I'm down.

How's playing the fiddle going? I find it annoying that the fiddle is seen as lesser than the violon. I know it's essentially the same instrument, but folk and traditional music for the people isn't held as the same regard as classic music, the music of the elite. (Farya Faraji said something of the kind in a panel with Luke from Polymathy on youtube. He's Québécois of Mazandarani origin (he was born in northern Iran, lived in France for a bit, moved here later). I recommend his music btw. He has four French Canadian songs on his channel on youtube.) I bet playing the fiddle and folk tunes is no easy task.

I follow two Québec troupes on social medias if you're interested in our dances ^_^ There's also an anglo-Canadian troupe I like a lot, they're from the Ottawa Valley (the Ottawa Valley crosses the Québec/Ontario border, so we obviously share cultural elements.

We are Vent du Nord fans in my household! My parents own a few of their albums.

I made a Spotify playlist back then in December (because upcoming Holidays = trad music season). It's mostly upbeat songs because I listened to them while working out or jogging. Enjoy! I'm sure you know many of the songs already.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4sUqtvzWLAeCsGZ7nFvg0T?si=8ba0c00ace034ff2