Antoine Berthiaume, Guido del Fabbro and Mélanie Auclair as well as Philippe Lauzier, Corinne René, Amy Horvey and Rémy Bélanger de Beauport will be at Le Cagibi on Tuesday December 16, 2008 as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music.

On June 23, 2008 at festival Suoni Per Il Popolo: Ambiances Magnétiques evening dedicatd to Diane Labrosse (Musique pour objets en voie de disparition), Charity Chan (Piano solo), and Mélanie Auclair (Décor sonore).

Quick reminder: The Suoni Per Il Popolo festival is held in Montréal throughout the month of June and features concerts every evening at La Sala Rossa as well as at Casa del Popolo. This year you will hear, amongst others, Gordon M Allen, Michel F Côté, Bernard Falaise, Philippe Lauzier, Jean Martin, Martin Tétreault and many others. To wit, the Ambiances Magnétiques evening will be dedicatd to Diane Labrosse (Musique pour objets en voie de disparition), Charity Chan (Piano solo), and Mélanie Auclair (Décor sonore) on June 23, 2008.

The folk-western music ensemble Rodéoscopique (formed by Antoine Berthiaume, Philippe Lauzier, Guido Del Fabbro, Mélanie Auclair, Pierre-Yves Martel, and Stefan Schneider) will be at Maison de la culture Frontenac in Montréal on Wednesday November 14, 2007.

Geneviève Letarte, will launch her 3rd album entitled Âmes soûles and will offer a short performance on May 9, 2007 at Divan orange in Montréal. Âmes soûles gathers intimate songs that seduces with their yeasty melodies, Latin rhythm and their poetic-country tone. Later that evening, Rodéoscopique (Mélanie Auclair, Antoine Berthiaume, Guido Del Fabbro, Philippe Lauzier, Pierre-Yves Martel, Stefan Schneider) will give a show of experimental folk country music. You can listen to some online audio clips of Âmes soûles and Ellen’s Bar.

Joane Hétu will present her Filature project in which she mixes rock, minimalist music, improvisations with visual and scenic components. This lively artist will be on stage with the Ensemble SuperMusique (Mélanie Auclair, Guido Del Fabbro, Jean Derome, Claire Gignac, Normand Guilbeault, Diane Labrosse, Danielle Palardy Roger, Pierre Tanguay, Némo Venba), and visual artist Pierre Hébert. This concert will be presented on May 21, 2007 at cinéma Laurier in Victoriaville as part of the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (23 concerts of “musique actuelle” — detailed schedule on their website). Until then, you may want to go by a virtual roundabout way and listen to some online audio clips of her album Nouvelle musique d’hiver.