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Originally Posted by Acajack
A few collaborative works does not make them part of the same scene.
I don't doubt that things have maybe improved slightly, but anglo musicians and music fans (even in Montreal) are famous for ignoring music produced in French as if it wasn't "real music".
I mean, you can go to a francophone music concert in Montreal (name any genre you want) with a couple thousand people and not hear a SINGLE person speaking English during the entire evening.
BTW, Vincent Vallières is number three on the cross-Canada charts this week:
http://www.billboard.com/charts/canadian-albums
Maybe some of you guys should check him out... |
The Anglo indie scene in Montreal is internationally important and famous, but I’m just not sure how it interacts with the Francophone community in Montreal. I remember hearing a live broadcast of a Dan Bejar show in a club there and it seemed to me there was a lot of French in the background, and if they’re coming out to see him to me that means they’re interested in good music period. But it is such a diverse community from all over the place - Purity Ring (Edmonton), Mac DeMarco (Edmonton), Braids (Calgary), The Besnard Lakes (Regina and BC), Handsome Furs (BC), Colin Stetson (Michigan?), Merrill Garbus (Vermont), The Barr Brothers (New England), Amon Tobin (Brazil), etc. etc. – that I think it’s a good question how well they’re accepted, and who is accepted by whom. I noticed that the Barr Brothers are doing a tour into some very French parts of Quebec, but they’re very acoustic and folky.
http://thebarrbrothers.com/on-tour/
I will check out Vincent Vallières, btw.