Guild Sighting - Quebecois!

[killdeer43]

Have to add this one in for all those who have never been to Montreal...there might be a Guild hiding in it...you'll have to watch the whole thing and look sharp...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni3x-uwAumo

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Pure magic!!

Joe

 

[Ross]

...THE MUSIC DID NOT DIE...another generation has come in and picked it up...just in time...and they are not all men this time. It did mostly skip a few generations...

Very good point about skipping a generation. Teenage boomers in the 1960s (I was one myself) turned away from traditional music (“Aye-diddly-aye music”, as a friend once disparagingly referred to it), in favour of the singer/songwriter genre. It seemed as though everyone wanted to be the next Bob Dylan. Not that this was a bad thing – it produced the likes of Gordon Lightfoot, Robert Charlebois, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Serge Fiori, Edith Butler, Ian Tyson et al.

It was the next, post-boomer generation that rediscovered traditional Quebec/Cape Breton/Metis etc music. Fortunately, oldtimers like Jean Carignan from the pre-boomer generation were still playing, and young musicians were quick to take up the traditional-music mantle from them. The result are musicians like Vent du Nord, LBS, Natalie MacMaster etc, and a vibrant scene exemplified by the Mont-Royal Ave. video (thanks for posting that)

 

[bluesypicky]

The ONLY music that survives the ages IS traditional, be it Quebecois, Breton, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Acadian/Cajun, American Folk, Traditional. They all share a common thread, and are passed down from generation to generation. None of what many of us consider popular...rock,jazz,pop,k-rap...will be remembered a hundred years from now. None of what has been 'recorded' will probably be able to be played back. As the technology evolves, only that which is appreciated and remembered is transferred to a new media, and the 'old' will not be. Only the folk tradition embraced by the minority will continue. Merci!

And another loud BRAVO!!!!
And that's why, while flirting with many musical styles, depending on the mood and what hits me at the time, there will always be "the Roots" in the background, where I will always go back for inspiration, and it's the B-L-U-E-S Baby!!!
And to this day, I still wonder at times why a 12 years old boy from Le Mans, France, got his soul "hit" with a lifetime impression by a musical style born in the American Delta, and with roots in Africa......????
Good thing music has no borders.

John, take me to the guitar show will you?... I'm getting deep again. :lol: