Thanks for the information! I forgot to mention, I'm not from Quebec, but from Northern California. I met some Quebecois musicians when they came out here in mid '80s for tours - the original, traditional version of La Bottine Souriante and Lisa Ornstein, fantastic fiddler from the US who at that time lived in Quebec and toured with fantastic accordionist Denis Pepin.

I'm going to a festival that's in its 11th year - Festival Memoire et Racines - near Joliette. Here's the URL: http://www.memoireracines.qc.ca/

If it works, here's a blue clicky: Festival Memoire et Racines

Beer, too bad that this is at the same time as the Ormsby festival.

Kat, wish I had more time to go to l'Isle Verte! Perhaps next year. Guess I won't be speaking better French this year, peutetre un jour ...!

-Linda