La Bolduc
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Mary Rose-Anne Bolduc was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Can
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Mary Bolduc with fellow musicians, 1928
Mary Bolduc with a fiddle
Sheet music for Le Jour de l'An
Music of Quebec
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As a cosmopolitan province, Quebec is a home to various genres of music, ranging from folk to hip hop. Music has played an important role in Quebecer culture. In the 1920s and 1930s, singer/songwriter
La Bolduc
…any formal music lessons, and developed her own style under the influence of her father's teaching and the musical traditions of Irish folk music and Québécois folk tunes. Her songs tended to be happy and comical with lively rhythms. Her self-written songs often used existing melodies from folk tunes or dances…
Québécois lumberjacks playing the fiddle, with sticks for percussion, in a lumber camp in 1943.
Christian Roberge, lead singer of French-Canadian gypsy jazz band The Lost Fingers, performing at Festival Franco-Ontarien in Ottawa on 11 June 2009.