Le Vent du Nord

A mainstay of the Canadian traditional folk landscape, Quebec's Le Vent du Nord ("The Wind of the North") specialize in the traditional French-Canadian folk that locals refer to as Quebecois music (or la musique québécoise in French). Since rising to national attention in 2003 with their Juno Award-winning debut, the band have issued a steady stream of unique recordings that draw on influences ranging from French medieval music to British folk to the Celtic music of Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany. Employing fiddle, mandolin, accordion, guitar, bouzouki, and the hurdy-gurdy, t...