Some music I heard in Canada this summer

I spent a couple weeks (actually 16 days) in eastern Canada this summer.  While my son and I were driving around, we sometimes listened to local radio stations.  There is some good music up there, especially in Quebec.

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  

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.