Cd On progress!

For a very longtime people have been asking me: ""Do you have a CD, Sylvain? And now for all of you who have been asking, I am pleased to announce that your dream ( and mine) is about to come true!...

Especially, when you have good help available around like I do!... Gaetan Racine assures the artistic direction and production; Gaetan, a tremendous musician, guides me through this work. I also have the privilege to have help from highly skilled musicians who offered to give me a hand in this project.

The recording sessions have been taking place in Gaetan's studio in Rivière-Bleue Qc.

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The Artists:

Julane Lund: From Indiana, Julane is a tremendous fiddle player. Julane is a professional musician specialize in American Norwegian fiddle and fiddling traditions from North of United-States and Québec traditionnal music.  I met her last summer at the Blue Lake Mountain Dulcimer Symposium, and she volunteered to participate to my CD project. She's also released her own CD this November you can find it at: www.cdbaby.com/cd/julanelund ... You can get more information about her work at Julane's website at: www.julanefiddle.com.

A. J. Bashore II: From Pennsylvania A. J. is a well known dulcimer player in USA. He participate to different dulcimer events in United-States. He also offered to lend a hand for my recording and like Julane, make that very long road up to the studio to participate generously to the project. A. J. also just released his album HANDS this past February. You can read about it in the recent Summer edition of Dulcimer Players News magazine about his music. Or at www.cdbaby.com/cd/ajbashoreII

Chad Ritchie: Percussions. Chad is a member of Les Troubadours from Edmunston New Brunswick, This band is specialize in traditional singing and more!... Chad is involve in this formation since three years and plays percussion and vocals.

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The team perfomes here at the Cabano's High School auditorium, last October 16th. On the picture from left to right: A. J. Bashore II, Sylvain Lacroix, Julane Lund and Gaetan Racine.

                                                                                                                    

Conception and direction  Sylvain Lacroix Production

 

Collaborators :

 Cristian Huet : For his encouragement, creativity, and for granting me permission to play Saint-Chartier  and Darjeeling Sainte-Maximes.

 Claude Nadeau :   For his complicity,  and his patience in and during rehearsals,

 Marisol Dionne :   Vocal and Guitar.

 Michel Dufour : For guitar arrangements on the Irish Reel , 

 Doug Richardson : Magic Violin on Saint Chartier.

A.J. Bashore : For his help on the english version of the site...