Bolduc

Bolduc (born Mary Pink Anna Through the June 24th 1894 with Newport, Quebec - February 20th 1941) is a auteure-compositrice-interprets Canadian (Gaspésie, Québécois). Regarded as the first “chansonnière” of Quebec, it did not follow any formal course of music of all its life.

Biography

It is born within a poor family. She is one of the six children of Lawrence Through, of Irish stock , and Adeline Cyr, a Québécois . Their house also shelters the six other children of Lawrence resulting from a first marriage.

The villagers isolated from Newport seldom travel and know well little the big cities or the modern music. Lawrence Through is the first and the only professor of music of Mary. He learns how to him to play of the traditional musical instruments that one finds in many hearths of the Quebec to the turning of the 20th century, like the Violon, the Accordéon, the Harmonica, the spoons and the Guimbarde.

They play especially of the airs and the dances of traditional folklore like the Gigue S, of memory and ear, since the family Through has neither record player, neither Piano, nor music in sheet. The repertory of Mary constitutes Irish melody S coming on the paternal side and folk airs Canadian-French coming from his mother, thus forming the single style which will make it famous.

It settles with its family with Montreal in 1907. At 13 years, it leaves Gaspésie to go to work in Montreal like good . She works thereafter in a factory where she will meet her husband.

In 1914, it marries Edouard Bolduc. Self-educated Musician , it learns how to play of the violin, the harmonica, the Accordéon and the old crock. She sings, accompanies and composes in order to help her family and her husband to be passed through the crisis. She begins her professional path in 1927, with the National Monument (street the St. Lawrence, in Montreal). In its beginnings, it accompanies by other artists the such singer Ovila Légaré, Juliette Pétrie and Alfred Montmarquette at the time of the taken care of the good old day instituted by Conrad Gauthier. It is besides during one of these evenings which she interprets for the first time Y' has a long time that I sleep by ground . Three recalls are held for him. It will become thereafter a regular guest of these evenings and one will claim from now on Mrs. Bolduc for his comic songs. After some successes mitigated on discs, It is on December 6th, 1929, with the song the cooker, which it begins officially its career discographic. At Archambault Music in Montreal, one makes the file to obtain a specimen of the 78 turns. One will sell of them 10.000 at the time of the first month. It quickly becomes the most popular singer of the Quebec, becoming the first woman of Quebec to earn her living as a singer.

She writes more than 300 songs inspired by the Irish and Québécois folk traditions, the majority comic. Some of them, which treat daily concern of ordinary people, are considered too dared by the radio stations which do not pass them on the waves.

The 21e century, approximately 100 of its songs survive (many of those which are obsolete, were written for special occasions). Perhaps that most known today I am the song have a button on the end of the language , or If you have a girl who wants to marry or traditional the It is in the time of the New Year's Day.

Anecdote

Bolduc is more known anglophone Canadians as a Mrs Bolduc .

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