I like French music, but I wasn't very familiar with Franco-Canadian popular music. Well, here are some songs I heard and liked, all of the bands/singers are Canadian:
Valérie Carpentier - Le Rendez-vous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OCnJI6w7DM
Ariane Moffatt - Montréal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2dSxQQhi_o
Ariane Moffatt - Debout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prdc3aWnZg8
Ariane Moffatt - Miami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srwZmTO-w_U or this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtDPtWI2iWw
Eli et Papillon - Les rêves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gwN6PQ_CLQ
Eli et Papillon - Dans La Danse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o21h9Vj-vUw
Salomé Leclerc - Tourne encore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv4YkII3Hqk
Laurence Nerbonne - Montréal XO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Velm5U1IFeI
Gazoline - Ces Gens Qui Dansent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8dfaZI2xkM
and another version (acoustic) is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWyfiInz5WA
and another version (acoustic) is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWyfiInz5WA
2Frères - Nous Autres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI9teEgHZ4E
Les Trois Accords - Les amoureux qui s'aiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvI3JnCoC8
Amélie Veille - Je prends tout de toi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlDRjT8kzzo
Beau Dommage - Le blues d'la métropole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tat2V97FYqE
Wintersleep - Who Are You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns_OhE9GUDU
Wintersleep - Amerika https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHazrHS8xXk and this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKJ8lszyj1w (it’s the best video of all the links here). Wintersleep is the one Anglophone band on this list. They are from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
There was also some good French music from French artists on the radio in Quebec. Here were a couple artists and songs I wasn't familiar with:
Navii - J'écoute du Miles Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQqNLynTZzg
Radio Elvis - Les Moissons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmsBLgg2RQ
Then there were some songs that weren't Canadian or French, but were new to me anyway:
Like this amazing mash-up of Bob Marley’s Exodus and Tinariwen’s Tamatant Tilay from Herbie Hancock’s Imagine Project. Herbie Hancock & Tinariwen & others: Tamatant Tilay / Exodus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuyphkAhn_k
Also, a song by Los Campesinos (a bad I’ve liked for years) that was pretty cool, You! Me! Dancing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj6SO_yKMe8
In Canada I heard an American Indie band that sounded a bit like Jared Mees and The Grown Children to me: The Front Bottoms - Santa Monica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHY-GmIeLxc
When the Olympics started, we heard Brazilian standards such as:
Caetano Veloso - Um canto de afoxé para o Bloco do Ilê https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eXbh-6xxUQ (so glad to hear this. I think it had been over 15 years since I last heard it). Here is another version, from a live show in 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5O7Yr3Auew
Sergio Mendes - Magalenha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoblz9g13NA
Were American radio stations playing Brazilian music in honor of the Olympics host country? I suppose perhaps some local public radio stations might have been doing that.
Anyway, that was a lot of music to discover just by listening to the radio as we drove around, and usually we weren't even playing the radio. We listened to books on tape or my own music playlists or we just had the sound off and enjoyed the quiet.
Anyway, that was a lot of music to discover just by listening to the radio as we drove around, and usually we weren't even playing the radio. We listened to books on tape or my own music playlists or we just had the sound off and enjoyed the quiet.
