Quebecois and Montreal music scene (school, living in, title)
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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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I've lived in St. Albans, VT for a year, a stones throw from the border and just an hour's drive to the Pont Champlain. I get up to Montreal a lot and I really love it! It's so close and has everything I could want and need from a big metropolitan area. It balances the rural/small town aspect of where I live, and I'm really digging living in Vermont as well, it's beautiful. But what I'm getting at is the more I visit Montreal the more motivated I get to learn French. So I pick up on it from watching videos and I get some Montreal radio station broadcasts that reach my area so I've been tuning into the local music stations and have picked up on some Quebecois artists that I dig.
So aside from the obvious and most well known Quebec singer being Celine Dion, I recently picked up on Marie-Mai and I've added some of her songs to my playlist. I'm wondering if her appeal was just largely in Quebec or if she was big in France as well.
I'd like to get some discussion going on the Quebec and Montreal music scenes from all genre's from famous cover song singers, old school, rock, hip hop, and perhaps even some Quebec country artists if such a thing exists. I'm pretty open minded to all kinds of music. As I'm learning the language I'm also enjoying the music while I pick on words.
If you have Sirius XM, check out Channel 166 for "Franco country" and Channel 759 for "Franco rock and pop". The broadcasts are in French. The former is a Radio Canada production.
So aside from the obvious and most well known Quebec singer being Celine Dion, I recently picked up on Marie-Mai and I've added some of her songs to my playlist. I'm wondering if her appeal was just largely in Quebec or if she was big in France as well.
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Marie-Mai is good pre-teen and teeny bopper pop-rock. I've seen here in concert several times with my kids. They are now older teens so they've kind of outgrown her music. Marie-Mai has also been trying to shed the teeny-bopper artist label in the past year or so.
Not sure which songs of hers you have but this is one of her bigger hits and my favourite of hers:
Starts off slow, but then they "rollick" like an Irish bar band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxJwRJlS890
(And yes, according to broadcast regulations in Canada, it's actually illegal to drink alcohol on TV. But the rule is bent all the time on Quebec TV. This was actually on the French CBC in prime time.)
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