THE RAMBLERS & GUESTS @ VIREE BLUES BOREALE - ADDICTION - AUG. 19
A One of a kind Show for the launching of the 10th edition’s Viree Blues Boreale
Hey, Viree Blues Boreale has already been here with you for 5 years! A 10th edition calls for some emphasis! But who could launch this festive 10th of Viree Blues Boreale? The team then remembered it’s first date with it’s Outaouais public, it’s first show! In January 2005, a group with a charismatic harmonicist and singer were starring. The Blues and the Funk were played full blast together with guitar prowesses and a highly charged harmonicist who dished out some top solos. They succeeded in making this rough beginning, this bland January Monday night into a memorable party. Be it on the stage, on the bar, on the tables or even on the street where passers-by wondered, this showman turned on a firework, as he usually does. And, what a stroke of luck, this group labeled Quebec’s Rolling Stones is launching a first album to celebrate it’s 10th anniversary too...! Then, it was standard to give The Ramblers “carte blanche” to come up with a one of a kind show to launch their 10th anniversary first album FIRST at Viree Blues Boreale’s 10th edition celebration, with their very special and world renown guests: Jean Millaire and Andree Dupre.
With a combined Blues and Rock & Roll repertoire, The Ramblers offer a continuous set of successful performances presented with an energy that gets to everyone. Triggered by the Stones’ Midnight Rambler clip and by an encounter with Jim Zeller at the Medley in Montreal, Eric Farrand’s passion for the harmonica and for the Blues really was born in 1999 at bar l’Escogriffe in Montreal, where the meeting and creation of his group took place. Indeed, Jean-Pierre Marchildon was drumming there with a group when he noticed Eric humming many of the group’s tunes and invited him to sing. Since then the group has constantly evolved into a very good band on the Montreal scene. A dream came through when Eric performed with Jim Zeller at Carl Tremblay’s Harmonica Festival in April 2003, and that they performed together on the same stage was a confirmation of Eric’s talent. His energic motions remind of Mick Jagger’s and he’s also pretty good performing songs like the Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil and Honky Tonk Women. For their 10th anniversary though, they’re launching an album of original compositions with even a few songs in French. They’ll present it to us together with carefully picked high profile guests.
The first guest is one of those artists who left their mark and even influenced Quebec’ music scene; a mainstay on the Blues scene, on Quebec’s musical scene and on the francophone music scene. He is one composer whose melodies can get at us. His guitar solos often become tunes that we’d like to keep humming and that carry strong emotions without him trying to squeeze millions of notes in a single frame. Jean Millaire: top performances on the radio, on many major stages and musical events, a great composer and performer. From his beginnings in 1968 with Expedition, he went on to a two year American tour with the Shakey Al Band (William Allen Werneken) together with a young harmonicist named Jim Zeller, they share the limelight with Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Watters, John Lee Hooker and Luther Allison. And he keeps traveling on with the English singer Murray Head before moving into the musicals Tout chaud, Paquet Voleur and L’Ile en Ville. His career summits were for sure his 8 months with Offenbach and mostly the summer of 1979, the start of Corbeau. This cult group, Pierre Harel, Marjo, Willie Lamothe, Roger “Wezo” Belval and, for sure, Jean Millaire have recorded five excellent albums, namely Corbeau, Fou, Illégal, Visionnaire and Dernier Cri. Then, the Johnny Blues Band was born in 1984 after Corbeau’s disbanding. It’s also around that time that he started to work with the now famous Marjo, former singer of Corbeau, in her solo career. During 2000, he mostly worked with Jim Zeller, Nanette Workman and Carl Tremblay on stage and on their respective albums. That’s also the year when he started his collaboration with our other guest, Andree Dupre; they decided to team up their talents and tour Quebec’s Blues roads.
Andree Dupre was first trained as a nurse and only discovered the Blues at 25. In 1994, she started her own group, Wiseblood, influenced by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Hendrix, C.C.R., B. B. King and Eric Clapton. Along the way, while performing a lot, she started writing her first album, Enchanteuse, published in 2003. Since meeting Jean Millaire in 2005, they perform some Blues, sometimes with a rock style. But they now will join The Ramblers to present you with Viree Blues Boreale’s all new program for the 10th edition.
So you will discover an all new album and a programming often copied but never matched, all in a 200 places club with a Rolling Stones show atmosphere provided by The Ramblers and their guests, Jean Millaire and Andree Dupre, on August 19 2009 at 8h00p.m., at Addiction, 117 Promenade du Portage in the Old Hull sector, for the launch of Viree Blues Boreale’s 10th edition program. For inquiries and requests for interviews, please contact Alexandre Petit at: vireeblues@gmail.com. You can find further information on our guests at: www.theramblers.org. for The Ramblers, at pages.videotron.com/millaire for Jean Millaire and at www.myspace.com/andreedupre for Andree Dupre. You should also visit our own site which provides you with links to all our guests sites and lots of other highly interesting information at: www.myspace.com/vireeblues.
With a combined Blues and Rock & Roll repertoire, The Ramblers offer a continuous set of successful performances presented with an energy that gets to everyone. Triggered by the Stones’ Midnight Rambler clip and by an encounter with Jim Zeller at the Medley in Montreal, Eric Farrand’s passion for the harmonica and for the Blues really was born in 1999 at bar l’Escogriffe in Montreal, where the meeting and creation of his group took place. Indeed, Jean-Pierre Marchildon was drumming there with a group when he noticed Eric humming many of the group’s tunes and invited him to sing. Since then the group has constantly evolved into a very good band on the Montreal scene. A dream came through when Eric performed with Jim Zeller at Carl Tremblay’s Harmonica Festival in April 2003, and that they performed together on the same stage was a confirmation of Eric’s talent. His energic motions remind of Mick Jagger’s and he’s also pretty good performing songs like the Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil and Honky Tonk Women. For their 10th anniversary though, they’re launching an album of original compositions with even a few songs in French. They’ll present it to us together with carefully picked high profile guests.
The first guest is one of those artists who left their mark and even influenced Quebec’ music scene; a mainstay on the Blues scene, on Quebec’s musical scene and on the francophone music scene. He is one composer whose melodies can get at us. His guitar solos often become tunes that we’d like to keep humming and that carry strong emotions without him trying to squeeze millions of notes in a single frame. Jean Millaire: top performances on the radio, on many major stages and musical events, a great composer and performer. From his beginnings in 1968 with Expedition, he went on to a two year American tour with the Shakey Al Band (William Allen Werneken) together with a young harmonicist named Jim Zeller, they share the limelight with Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Watters, John Lee Hooker and Luther Allison. And he keeps traveling on with the English singer Murray Head before moving into the musicals Tout chaud, Paquet Voleur and L’Ile en Ville. His career summits were for sure his 8 months with Offenbach and mostly the summer of 1979, the start of Corbeau. This cult group, Pierre Harel, Marjo, Willie Lamothe, Roger “Wezo” Belval and, for sure, Jean Millaire have recorded five excellent albums, namely Corbeau, Fou, Illégal, Visionnaire and Dernier Cri. Then, the Johnny Blues Band was born in 1984 after Corbeau’s disbanding. It’s also around that time that he started to work with the now famous Marjo, former singer of Corbeau, in her solo career. During 2000, he mostly worked with Jim Zeller, Nanette Workman and Carl Tremblay on stage and on their respective albums. That’s also the year when he started his collaboration with our other guest, Andree Dupre; they decided to team up their talents and tour Quebec’s Blues roads.
Andree Dupre was first trained as a nurse and only discovered the Blues at 25. In 1994, she started her own group, Wiseblood, influenced by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Hendrix, C.C.R., B. B. King and Eric Clapton. Along the way, while performing a lot, she started writing her first album, Enchanteuse, published in 2003. Since meeting Jean Millaire in 2005, they perform some Blues, sometimes with a rock style. But they now will join The Ramblers to present you with Viree Blues Boreale’s all new program for the 10th edition.
So you will discover an all new album and a programming often copied but never matched, all in a 200 places club with a Rolling Stones show atmosphere provided by The Ramblers and their guests, Jean Millaire and Andree Dupre, on August 19 2009 at 8h00p.m., at Addiction, 117 Promenade du Portage in the Old Hull sector, for the launch of Viree Blues Boreale’s 10th edition program. For inquiries and requests for interviews, please contact Alexandre Petit at: vireeblues@gmail.com. You can find further information on our guests at: www.theramblers.org. for The Ramblers, at pages.videotron.com/millaire for Jean Millaire and at www.myspace.com/andreedupre for Andree Dupre. You should also visit our own site which provides you with links to all our guests sites and lots of other highly interesting information at: www.myspace.com/vireeblues.
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