Louis Leger: Accordeon, voix Barbara Richert: guitare Dejah Leger: piano, les pieds, guitare, voix Devon Leger: violon Kora Colombe Leger: gigueur, voix
Influences
La musique quebecoise et acadienne and family bands. La famille Arsenault, La famille Beaudoin, la famille Verret. Fiddlers: Louis Pitou Boudreault, Jean Carignan, Gilles Losier, Andre Brunet, Lisa Ornstein, Liette Remon, Guy Bouchard, Joseph Allard, Isidore Soucy. Accordionists: Stephane Landry, Rejean Brunet, Philippe Bruneau, Benoit Bourque. Guitarists: Andre Marchand, Eric Beaudry. Pianists: Barbara Mendelsohn, Donna Long. Bands: La Bottine Souriante, Genticorum, Ni Sarpe Ni Branche, Le Vent du Nord. And that's just for quebec music. The list goes on and on...
La Famille Leger at the 2007 Northwest Folklife Festival: Fiddle and Piano
La Famille Leger is an old school family band playing the music of our heritage: the traditional music of Quebec and New Brunswick. Following in the footsteps of the great French-Canadian family bands like La Famille Soucy, La Famille Leger plays the instrumental dance music of French Eastern Canada on fiddle, accordion, guitar, piano and pieds (clogging).
Patriarch Louis Leger leads the band on the one-row melodion. Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Louis grew up speaking French as his first language and discovered folk music as a teenager in the 1960s. He traveled through Europe as "Ludwig Luffelspieler" playing spoons and fiddle in an old-time jugband called "The Stringband". Returning to America, he married and raised a family, working as a school music teacher. His son, Devon, was bitten by the folk music bug and set out to learn Irish fiddling. When Devon discovered his French-Canadian roots through the music of La Bottine Souriante, Louis decided to go back and learn the music he'd heard growing up in New Brunswick. Together, they formed a family band with Devon's mom, Barbara, on guitar and his wife, Dejah, on piano. Barbara discovered the guitar after many years spent enjoying folk music around the home and has taken to it like a fish to water. Dejah comes from a classical piano background of many years and a strong folk background as a singer-songwriter.
La Famille Leger plays music for dancing, music handed down through generations in the New World, music from the backwoods and kitchen parties of Quebec and New Brunswick.
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Missed Devon at Lark... Without you, there were fewer Quebecois and Acadian jams going until 2am. However Louis is downright awesome! Thanks so much for playing the music which inspired me to pick up the fiddle in the first place :D CD rocks too
Hey La Famille Leger, Here's looking forward to a great performance at the 2008 Northwest Folklife Festival. You're scheduled for Sunday, May 25, at 12:20pm on the Northwest Court Stage.
Salutations de Montréal! I came across vous autres when I was setting up Gilles Losier's page; I put in his name to "search," and your mention of him came up. Gilles always comes by the sessions that (mando) Bob & I host when he's in Mtl, and I've had the honour of performing with him a few times too. I see there's a Carignan page: I'll have to hook Gilles up with that, bien sur! Salut, Patrick.
Thanks for the add! Looks like you've another up and coming piano accompanist in the wings (or not just in the wings!!) according to your YouTube video. I enjoy listening to your version of Man with Two Women. Where's the second tune that goes with it? Cheers,
Bonjour les Leger, Nous semblons avoir quelques amis communs, sans toutefois avoir encore eu la chance de nous rencontrer... Espérons bien que ça vienne, de notre bord ou du vôtre. En attendant, je suis bien curieuse de savoir comment vous avez eu vent de notre existence... d'où ce petit message de salutation. Gabrielle pour Serre l'Écoute
Ravi de vous découvrir! On aime votre musique! Chaque mardi soir il y a un excellent session ici à Québec - le meilleure au monde (c'est dit). Venez-vous en! Connaissez-vous Brin?
Actually that second song on our My space is written by Halifax's Al Tuck and the tune is a Scottish one - trying to incorporate some of my own Nova Scotian roots... But we definately like for Appalachain roots and sometimes even get out the old Carter Family songbook... Heck, I was born at the foot of the Appalachians (they continue through N.S).
Sorry, this is the longest myspace commment I've ever written, but I'm just so damn excited to hear from you. À bientôt!
