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2008 CALENDAR |
3-28/29 - Cumberland RI, Blackstone River Theater - Chanterelle and The Beaudoin Legacy - Music with a French Accent: a weekend of French music from New England and Canada - Friday night dance, Sat. aft. workshops and Soirée Concert with both bands at 8 pm
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6/14 - Salisbury VT Branbury State Park - music outdoors |
7/12 - Vergennes VT Opera House - Franco-American Heritage Day - with Chanterelle |
8/22-24 - Bangor ME - American Folk Festival - festival performances and workshops |
Website, content, music © 2007 The Beaudoin Legacy. Photos © 2006 Bill Spence. Design/webmaster: Donna Hébert. |
The Beaudoin Project is a threefold effort to "document, present and preserve the unique Franco-American music, song and dance of Vermont's Beaudoin family."
Preserving . . .
We are collaborating with the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury VT, which has established The Beaudoin Collection to preserve the family's musical heritage. The Center is digitizing the family's recorded archive of informal gatherings under the guidance of folklorist/archivist Andy Kolovos and with the financial assistance of a GRAMMY Foundation grant. Family members have pulled out of their closets everything from cassettes and photographs to steel records made in the 1940s at a family wedding! All these resources are being cataloged and converted to digital media. For more information about when these materials may be available, please contact the Vermont Folkife Center.
Documenting . . .
Maryland folklorist Andy Wallace is looking for archived performances from the 1970s at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the National Folk Festival, with the goal of releasing them on CD and iTunes. In addition, The Beaudoin Legacy are documenting their current performances on audio and video to add to the Collection at the Vermont Folklife Center.
Presenting . . .
Beaudoin Legacy performances present their music, song and dancing in a family party format, inviting you into their "living room" onstage for an evening or afternoon "Soirée Canadienne." Fiddles, piano, guitar, chansons à répondre and ballads, spoons, tapping and dancing feet all bring you into the heart of their French-Canadian family party.
The Beaudoin Legacy was recently appointed to the NEA's American Masterpiece Roster by the Vermont Arts Council, making Vermont non-profit presenters eligible to recieve a fifty percent subsidy of the group's concert fee. Presenters will find us online at the Vermont Arts Council's roster website and should contact the Arts Council for a program application.
1. La Boiteuse (1 MB)
2. Franque, franque/Ferme ta yeull/Dad's Reel (5.2 MB)
3. J'irai la voir un jour (768 KB)
4. Au bois du rossignolet/La grande chaine (1.6 MB)