Over their multiple Juno-winning 20-year recording career, Le Vent Du Nord has raised the bar for folk acts in Canada with their mélange of traditional styles and deft musicality that ties their ancestral Québecois music to long-established celtic, British, and French folk styles.
Formed in 2002, Le Vent Du Nord quickly caught the attention of the Canadian folk community, winning the 2003 Juno for Roots and Traditional Group Recording of The Year for their debut album Maudite Moisson. A prolific creative run in the first decade of the millennium the band cap off the decade with another Juno for their fourth record, La Part Du Feu. The band has continued their creative streak throughout the 2010s and into the ‘20s, with another six albums and multiple collaborations to their credit.
With their striking compositions and rollicking musicianship, Le Vent Du Nord are at once dramatic and energetic, a force of natural instrumentation that conjures visions of fur-lined windows, warm fires, and cold ales while the winds of the north blow steadily through the woods of old Québec.
Biography by Mike Dunn