
Media quotes . . .
"You don't have to be French to love Chanterelle, just ready for a good time!" SING OUT! Magazine
"Three incredible voices in harmony with great talent and spirit - they get better with every listening!" Bravo Magazine
"Knowledgeable and able to communicate effectively with an audience, Chanterelle's warm stage presence makes them ideal for schools and educational settings." NH Council on the Arts
"Bursting wtih joie de vivre, Josée Vachon is a true chanteuse whose flying feet heat up the hall while her voice melts your heart!" Valley Advocate
"Donna Hébert's fiddle speaks fluent français!" Scott Alarik, NPR's "Hear and Now"
"Liza Constable is stylish and sophisticated - the perfect voice!" Dirty Linen Magazine
Josée has released several new CDs, the latest a followup to her wildly popular "Devotion CD of French language hymns. The new "Inspiratioin" release promises to be a hit as well. Josee has many other recordings available, including her Christmas CD, Rève de Noel and Déracinée, or "uprooted," with its theme of French-Canadian immigration to the U.S., featuring her original, "Je viens tout juste de débarquer" co-authored with poet Carole Auger.
A veteran of thousands of contradances with recording industry awards for her fiddling, Donna Hébert is an important figure in the contradance renaissance, as well as a national leader in teaching fiddling. Donna's humorous stories, songs of Franco life, and unstoppable fiddling groove are all sure crowd-pleasers at Chanterelle concerts. At a recent concert, an elderly man leapt right out of his front-row seat and began energetically step-dancing, high praise indeed for a fiddler!
Josée and Donna both have original songs included on the 1999 Smithsonian/Folkways anthology of Franco music, which was chosen by National Public Radio as one of it's Top Ten Folk CDs.
Liza Constable's supple contralto voice has caught the attention of people from festival-goers to NPR "All Things Considered" host Noah Adams. A consummate vocal stylist, Liza's phrasing goes to the heart of the lyric. Her Cajun two- steps, waltzes and bluesy laments turn Chanterelle's music south to Louisiana. A guitarist since age ten and fluent in many styles of accompaniment, Liza can drive dance tunes to the wall or elegantly underpin a jazz standard or a ballad with equal skill and grace. Her latest songs with Chanterelle are in French, taken from singers like Josephine Baker and Edith Piaf, where Liza’s voice takes on their insouciance and loneliness while Donna's fiddling turns to sassy French jazz.
Liza and Donna also perform with The Beaudoin Legacy with members of Vermont's Beaudoin family and friends, singing and playing fiddle with the 11-member group at venues in the Northeast.
When schedules permit, Chanterelle is joined by Cajun accordionist and bassist Alan Bradbury. Alan is also a member of the Rhode Island Cajun band Magnolia.
Young Franco-American fiddling tunesmith Daniel Boucher from Bristol CT is also joining Chanterelle onstage whenever he can. The heritage is safe in his hands.
Chanterelle also performs and teaches in schools and residency programs.
CHANTERELLE has performed since 1993 for Franco-American community & cultural events, folk and heritage festivals, arts, community and college concert series, language conferences, K-college residencies & workshops
Please email Donna Hébert at dhebert at crocker dot com or Josée Vachon at josee at mapinternet dot com to discuss how Chanterelle can help fill your season's calendar of events.
Chanterelle is a member of the New England Touring Roster.
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Press release . . . 12/07 Chanterelle brings the audience into the heart of New England's warm, lively French culture. Distinctively beautiful voices, virtuoso French fiddling and trio harmonies are hallmarks of Chanterelle performances, taking the listener on an unforgettable journey from Québec to Cajun Country. Invoking their culture in music, story and song, they make the audience part of the soirée. Laughter and music ring together as hands and feet keep time with the music, for it's time to have a good time, "C'est le temps de s'amuser, amusons nous ensemble!" Upcoming performances include a weekend of French music and dancing from New England and Canada with The Beaudoin Legacy, formed by Chanterelle’s Donna Hébert and fiddler George Wilson with members of Louis Beaudoin’s family. The Beaudoin Legacy will add seven others to Chanterelle’s quartet at the Blackstone River Theater in Cumberland, Rhode Island on March 28-29, 2008. Friday night’s dance is called by the dean of New England callers, Tony Parkes, who founded the Monday Night Scout House Dance in Concord with fiddler Donna Hébert in 1976. |
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