Seating is limited for this very intimate performance!Potluck starts at 6PM Music starts between 6:30 and 7PMAll ages, family friendly$10-20 suggested donation-----------Ziguehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSUeCQuIcQE&list;=PLsX3LKaGcVv0rAxgGmkG4DLWRlwu9vt-G
Since 1992, Claude Méthé and Dana Whittle have performed, composed and shared everything musical. Married in “real life” (for more than 20 years), they are both dynamic singers and prolific composers in love with the Québécois trad-inspired music they make together every day.  Claude’s raw, emotional singing and authentic fiddling is seamlessly matched to the accompaniment of his longtime partner, herself a rhythmic and vocal powerhouse. Together, they deliver the kind of magic that is the hallmark of musical families – as demonstrated by their equally musical children.
Claude Méthé
Fiddle, vocals
Born in Québec City, fiddler-singer Claude Méthé has been a part of the traditional music world in Québec for more than thirty years. A self-taught fiddler, his style reflects his influences and the eighteen years he lived in the region of Lotbinière, on the south side of the St-Lawrence river not far from Québec City. Claude is a former founding member of the legendary Le Rêve du Diable, winner of a 1983 Felix for Trad Album of the Year, and a group often credited with singlehandedly reviving public interest in traditional Québécois music. Claude is well-known for his work with other trad bands, including Manigance, Ni Sarpe Ni Branche, Entourloupe, Jeter le Pont and Dentdelion). He has played all over Canada, in Europe and the U.S. and appears on at least twelve recordings, including the soundtrack of Oscar-winning film “CRAC” by Frédéric Back. Claude’s impressive repertoire of traditional songs contains gems from Manitoba, Ontario, Québec and the maritimes, sung in a voice both textured and sentimental. He is heir to the repertoire of his longtime mentor and friend Aimé Gagnon, who died in 1997. Claude now lives in the tiny village of Ste-Béatrix, in Lanaudière, the heart of what is arguably the hotbed of traditional Québécois music (it is home to La Bottine Souriante, Norouet, Les Charbonniers, Hommage aux Aînés, Festival Mémoire et Racines…).
Dana Whittle
Guitar, vocals, foot percussion
A composer, singer, guitarist, bassist and foot percussionist, Dana offers a taste of the unique cultural mélange of her New England folk roots and her experience as an American transplanted into the heart of the traditional Québécois music scene. Most often seen with band Dendelion, trio Mil, or fiddler Claude Méthé, she is a singer and composer in her own right; her original repertoire includes songs in English and in French. Her compositions are strongly influenced by the trad Québécois music she has played almost exclusively since the early ’90s; some can be heard in concert or on recordings by other artists, including Les Poules à Colin, Stéphane Landry, Cindy Mangsen & Steve Gillette and Robert Resnick. Born into a singing family, with a grandmother who sang in the New York Metropolitan Opera and recorded gospel 78s on the Okeh label, she began playing guitar at age six. At the age of 12, she toured New England with a childrens’ folk group. At university, she began performing her own songs as well as folk, blues and bluegrass at clubs, bars and coffeehouses throughout the upstate New York region. From 1973-1984 Dana performed solo and as a member of roots groups in New England, New York and Georgia, where she lived for 7 years. Beginning in 1985, she was a frequent backup guitarist and singer for Vermont folk-trad artists Elizabeth von Trapp and Patti Casey (VT). From 1990-1997, her deep friendship with late Vermont Franco-American singer Martha Pellerin and subsequent exposure to traditional Québécois music led to the formation of group Jeter le Pont and a successful performing career in both the U.S. and Canada, plus the release of two albums prior to Pellerin’s untimely death in 1997. Dana met Claude Méthé as a result of her friendship with Martha, and in 1994, Dentdelion was born as a duo with Méthé, later adding flutist Denise Levac, her daughter Béatrix Méthé and Denise’s son Colin Savoie-Levac (both members of award-winning band Les Poules à Colin). From 2006-2014 Dentdelion played concerts and toured together in Canada, the US and Europe, performing at countless festivals, concert halls and folk clubs, in addition to playing for contradances in both Canada and the US. After moving to Québec, Dana also performed and recorded with trad singer-stepdancer Tess LeBlanc (2000-2002). She founded the ensemble TradNation Project in 2012 and in addition to the ensemble’s performances, helps young trad artists to showcase under the flag of TradNation. Dana is founder of Folquébec, Québec’s first organization dedicated to the international promotion of folk music made in Québec.
Honours
Medal of Honour (Claude), Québec National Assembly, for cultural contribution to Québec heritage, 2012 | Folk Alley Artist of the Month, Dentdelion, Oct 2011 | Nominee Grand Prix Desjardins (Dana), Lanaudière (cultural ambassador) 2011 | Yankee Magazine Top 40 Albums, Jeter le Pont/L’Escapade, 2001 | Porcupine Award Madame La Bolduc Award, Great North Wind, Toronto, Dentdelion/Les beaux yeux bleus, 1995| North x Northeast, showcase/vitrine, Toronto, Dentdelion, 1996 | Root ‘n’ Branch Top Pick, International music, WSMU, Dartmouth, MA, 1995 | Félix award (Claude, ADISQ) Traditional Album of the Year, 1983 | Theme composition/performance (Claude) film “Crac” Frederic Back, Oscar à Hollywood | 2nd place winner (Dana, composition and performance) Ted Mack Talent Showcase Rochester, NY, 1976