FANTASTIC news today for Le Vent du Nord who won the UK 2023 Songlines music awards in the Americas category! Songlines Magazine is a reference in world music, it is therefore a great pride for La Compagnie du Nord and it reinforces the place of
On March 12, at the Church of Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu (Quebec), the launch concert for the album LES VOIX DU VENT AVEC CORDES ET PIANO was held, featuring Le Vent du Nord, Le Quatuor Trad and Philippe Prudhomme. 200 people attended in an lovely & exceptional intimist
Le Vent du Nord and manager Geneviève Nadeau won the International Development Award at the first edition of the Gala des Prix Folquébec. The evening also featured a splendid performance by the quartet Les Grands Hurleurs. Many thanks to the event’s organizers and to Gilles Garand.
The award winning and highly acclaimed band Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Quebec’s progressive francophone folk movement. The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while enhancing it’s hard-driving soulful music (rooted in the Celtic diaspora) with a broad range of global influences.
Featuring button accordion, guitar and fiddle, the band’s sound is defined by the hurdy-gurdy, which adds an earthy, rough-hewn flavor to even the most buoyant dance tunes.” — Boston Herald
Since its inception in August 2002, Le Vent du Nord has enjoyed meteoric success, performing well over 1,800 concerts over 4 continents and racking up several prestigious awards, including a Grand Prix du Disque Charles Cros, two Junos (Canada’s Grammys), a Félix at ADISQ, a Canadian Folk Music Award, and “Artist of the Year” at the North American Folk Alliance Annual Gala.
The group exhibits great finesse and flexibility, appearing regularly on Canadian, American, French, and UK television and radio, and participating in a wide variety of special musical projects. They’ve collaborated and performed with a diverse range of artists including: Harry Manx, Väsen, Dervish, The Chieftains, Breton musical pioneer Yann-Fañch Kemener, Québecois roots legend and master storyteller Michel Faubert, the Scottish folk band Breabach, singer Julie Fowlis, and the trans-Mediterranean ensemble Constantinople.
Not content with standard approaches to tradition, Le Vent du Nord has also created a symphonic concert that, according to Voir Montreal, “puts all traditional folk naysayers to shame.”
On stage these friends create intense, joyful and dynamic live performances that expand the bounds of tradition in striking global directions. This is the modern sound of tradition, a music of the here and now.
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