Hi! I’d like to find some more nice trad music from Quebec than just LBS and Matapat. Can anyone recommend any bands/boxplayers from Quebec - if possible, also with CD-advises (incl. places to order them)?
Don’t be too surprised to find that question in the string-forum as well - I just looove it, when french-Canadian fiddle&box go together… 
Try these ones for starters, they are all superb.
Raz-de-Marée (aka Tidal Wave for US audiences) http://www.tidalwavemusic.com/index_eng.html - great dance band with Sabin Jacques on box, one of the best of the younger players, and his wife Rachel Aucoin on piano, absolutely brilliant musician.
Genticorum - http://www.genticorum.com/ . Young trio having a lot of success internationally. Pascal Gemme is a great fiddler, Yann Falquet a great guitarist, and Alexandre Garand plays great bass and flute.
Galant tu perds ton temps - http://www.galanttuperdstontemps.ca/ almost-all-female mainly vocal ensemble.
De temps antan - http://detempsantan.qc.ca/ featuring the superb fiddling of André Brunet, and the box player is pretty good too.
If the band websites don’t tell you how to get hold of CDs, try http://www.trentesouszero.com/
I should add a word for my friends Les têtes de violon, and their CD “Airs tordus”, focusing on unique Québecois crooked tunes and unison fiddle. Also from Trente Sous Zéro. There’s a photo of the group on the main Catalogue page, and a CD description here (CD Numéro 1 !):
Well that’s about all I was doing, MTG, putting a word in for friends of mine, mostly (don’t know any of the Galant girls though I did work with the lone fellow about 10 years ago).
It sounds as though your friends have a thing about “tounes croches” - some people make a bit of a fetish of them. I find them annoying mostly (the tunes, that is). A friend of mine is about to start writing a doctoral thesis about them, would you believe.
I DO admit - I just LOVE those crooked tunes! Maybe it’s because I’m not a dancer. Or maybe, because, through Bulgarian music et c., I’m used to “strange” rhythms - but to my ears, they somehow “spice” celtic (and related) music somehow, that I find every now and then, generally speaking, a bit too straight sometimes…
Thanx for all the help (, though ordering a CD via internet from Trente sous Zero from Europe is nor really simple… 
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Merci beaucoup, mes amis, pour m’aider!
Tres cordiallement -
Votre
Pasteur Celte
Aren’t they supposed to be annoying? 
Seriously, I’m not sure exactly how they came to the project and the specific interest in these airs foutus. Jumper/Jonathan here on the board would know more about that. Judy and Greg Raskin are fine musicians, and Judy is an outstanding Irish fiddler as well.
I like the tunes myself, or at least a CD’s worth of them.
De rien, Celtpastor. A chacun son goût !
Le Vent Du Nord
did somebody mentioned la bottine souriante already?
Yes, VdN are great, LBS I already mentioned! Btw - I found the first solo-album of Yves Lambert a bit weak (at least compared to LBS!). I hear, he’s got a 2nd out - is that one better?