Podorythmie, Forró do Cana, and Métis Jiggers get Festival Du Bois dancing, March 24 to 26
Fiddles, hard-shoe step-dancing, and more to get you moving at the 34th annual event
Podorythmie
Festival du Bois runs at Maillardville’s Mackin Park from March 24 to 26
THERE IS A LOT to do at this weekend’s Festival du Bois—but one of them is not standing still.
A variety of acts at the 34th annual event promises to get the crowd moving.
Make sure to catch Podorythmie, a multinational ensemble that mixes good-time Québécois music with Cape Breton fiddle, accordion, and dance music—with hard-shoe, lightning-fast percussive step dancing setting the tempo.
Elsewhere, travel to Brazil through the dance music of Vancouver-based Forró do Cana.
And a festival highlight is always the Métis Jiggers, who draw on the traditions of Manitoba’s Red River area. The hyerenergized form mixes First Nations dancing and Scottish and French-Canadian step-dancing, along with reel, jig, quadrille and original steps. An array of local fiddlers set the pace.
All of them perform at the Main Stage in the Grand Chapiteau. Find more info here.
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