Great Lakes Folk Festival -2013

Les Poules à Colin (Colin's Chickens) is composed of five children of traditional musicians from Québec’s Lanaudière region, which is known worldwide for maintaining its traditions. Les Poules plays a traditional form of Québécois music that is colored by their formal training... Read More →

Sarah Marchand grew up in the midst of traditional music. Singing since she began to form words, Sarah began to play guitar at the age of 5, and took up piano while at Cégep de Joliette, where she met Marie and Éléonore. While in high school and at university, she learned and performed... Read More →

Béatrix Méthé was born in Vermont, then moved with her parents to the Lanaudière region of Québec at nine months old. She began taking lessons for classical violin at 9, becoming a member of the Joliette Youth Orchestra. At 10, she began performing with Dentdelion, as well as... Read More →

Born in the Québec City region to a traditional Québécois dance caller-stepdancer father and a Belgian lacemaker mother, Éléonore Pitre began playing music at the age of 4, taking violin lessons until she was 11. Her family moved to Joliette in Québec's Lanaudière region at... Read More →

Colin Savoie-Levac  received his first mandolin when he was 11, and soon afterwards, added banjo, guitar and foot percussion and began studying with traditional multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer), guitarist... Read More →

With a musician mother, Marie Savoie-Levac, began life listening to traditional Québécois music , and began playing flute in the school band, where she met Éléonore Pitre. It was a friendship that would become the basis for Les Poules. After five years, she changed to piano, and... Read More →