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Radio (Radio-Canada, CHLP, CHLN, CKAC, CKVL) supported Quebec vocal music and folk songs (Les Montagnards laurentiens on CHRC, Quebec, the Quatuor Alouette live during the 1930s, and Lionel Daunais …).

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The Montagnards laurentiens performed a traditional repertorie that inspired many musicians
21 May 1949
Quebec, Quebec, Canada

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The Montagnards laurentiens
21 May 1949
Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection

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Singer and folklorist Isidore Soucy and Jean Rafa, recorded at the Faisan Doré for broadcast on CKVL
26 February 1950
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Isidore Soucy brought a typically Quebec-flavoured "swing" to the recording of folk songs. Records made by the Soucy family enjoyed enormous successes.

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Willie Lamothe, country singer
16 September 1950
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection

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Country (Western) music was popular in waves; self-produced albums could sell as many as 15,000 copies; the performers criss-crossed Quebec, from festivals to small venues, in a parallel network where they sold directly to the public; Willie Lamothe sold 250,000 copies of a single title.

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Record sleeve, singer and folklorist Jacques Labrecque
1950
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Phonothèque québécoise collection

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Jacques Labrecque sang with the Variétés lyriques in the 1930s, and then became passionate about folk songs. He founded the Musicana and then Les Éditions du patrimoine, producing his own records, those of violinist Jean Carignan, and anthologies of traditional music from the different regions of Quebec (albums that were beautifully documented and presented).

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Serpentins recording in Terrebonne with Benoit Bourque, Serge Parent, Jean Morin and others.
1976
Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada

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The group Eritage in Winnipeg with Benoit Bourque, Vincent Ouellet, Raynald Ouellet and others.
1982
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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The growing interest in world music helped traditional Quebec music to find an audience, following years of drought. The group La Bottine souriante enjoyed unheard of successes. New generations created hybrid forms or, on other other hand, purist approaches, some of them musicological. Groups such as Barde, Eritage, Le Rêve du diable and later, Le Vent du nord, La Volée de castors, Genticorum and many others each enriched the repertoire in their own way. The heritage left by people like Carignan, Soucy, Bouchard and Montmarquette was taken on by Philippe Bruneau, Gabriel Labbé, Danielle Martineau, Michel Faubert and a few others.

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At the Carrefour mondial de l'accordion in Montmagny with Marip Loiselle, Richard Forest and others
4 September 1994
Montmagny, Quebec, Canada

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Georges Sapounidis, bouzouki, during the recording of 'Petit fou'.
January, 2001
Montreal, Quebec, Canada