Guitarist and bouzouki player Simon Beaudry is from Saint-Côme, Québec. Simon grew up surrounded by traditional music. His maternal grandfather is well known in the…
Artist Profiles: Simon Beaudry
Category: Artist Profiles
Artist Profiles: Olivier Demers
Olivier Demers is an accomplished violin player and multi-instrumentalist with a history in classical and Quebecois folk music. He has performed with L’Orchestre des Jeunes…
Artist Profiles: Oliver Schroer
Oliver Schroer was born June 18, 1956 in Toronto, Canada. Oliver Schroer was a unique fiddler/composer whose musical explorations took him far beyond his traditional…
Artist Profiles: Nicolas Boulerice
Trained as a pianist, Nicholas Boulerice has experimented with many genres of music on the keyboard. A fascination with the unusual led him in 1997…
Artist Profiles: Lache Cercel
Lache Cercel was born in Bucharest, Romania and studied at Romania’s prestigious Academy of Arts. Before leaving his homeland, Lache Cercel was one of Romania’s…
Artist Profiles: Lula Pena
Lula Pena was born May 15, 1974 in Lisbon, Portugal. Her inventive form of fado and other styles of music has developed a devoted following…
Artist Profiles: Ricardo Ribeiro
Ricardo Alexandre Paulo Ribeiro was born August 19, 1981 in Lisbon, Portugal. Ricardo Ribeiro discovered fado at an early age, listening to the big names…
Artist Profiles: Mighty Popo
Jaques Murigande, aka Mighty Popo, was born in Ngagara, a neighborhood in Bujumbura, Burundi populated largely by Rwandan and Congolese migrants and refugees. Growing up…
Artist Profiles: Matapat
Polished, heartfelt and spirited, Matapat played, danced and sang their tradition with humor and energy. They were well known for their charismatic and engaging performances.…
Artist Profiles: Mary Jane Lamond
Mary Jane Lamond was born in 1960 in Kingston, Canada. Cape Breton’s modern sharer of ancient Gaelic songs, stories ‘and spirit using a variety of…