posted 03/03/11 11:14 AM | updated 03/03/11 11:14 AM
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De Temps Antan Saturday, March 12

Ketchum, ID — New Orleans isn’t the only place in North America where French-inflected music is played and sung. Traditional music from Quebec has the same joie de vivre, and nobody does it better than De Temps Antan.

The three-man group sails into town on Saturday, March 12, with fiddles, accordion, guitar, bouzouki and a variety of other instruments in hand, as the last concert in the Sun Valley Center for the Arts Winter Performing Arts Series.

“If you like Beausoleil and Cajun music, you’ll love these guys,” says Kristine Bretall, The Center’s Director of Marketing. “They have boundless energy and their music ranges from piercingly beautiful ballads to buoyant dance tunes. It’s impossible not to get moving with their music and enthusiasm!”

Since 2003, Éric Beaudry, André Brunet and Pierre-Luc Dupuis—all natives of the province of Quebec—have been exploring and performing time-honored melodies from French-speaking Canada. They don’t just copy old tunes; they research old material and give it new arrangements. Loosely translated, the group’s name means “times past,” and they like to joke that “it takes a special blend of musical flair to create memorable songs of yesteryear.”

Reporting from Copenhagen’s World Music Convention last fall, Michal Shapiro praised De Temps Antan in the Huffington Post: “You'll see a superb interaction and great joy in their presentation, and they feed off the energy in a room and get stronger with each song...by the end of the set their tempos remained rock solid and their arrangements tight.”

All three musicians spent time as members of La Bottine Souriante, one of Quebec’s best-known traditional music groups. Fiddler André Brunet was Canadian Grand Master fiddler in 2008 and participated in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

The concert takes place on Saturday, March 12, at 6:30 pm at the Sun Valley Opera House. Tickets are $20 for Sun Valley Center for the Arts members and $30 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets, visit www.sunvalleycenter.org, call 208.726.9491 ex 10 or stop by The Center in Ketchum.

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