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
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.
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
Music of Quebec
…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 Madam Bolduc performed comedic songs in a folk style with Irish influences. Quebec's popular artists of the last century include Félix Leclerc (1950's), Gilles…
Publicity photo of La Bolduc
Mary Bolduc with fellow musicians, 1928
Mary Bolduc with a fiddle
Sheet music for Le Jour de l'An