Mélisande

Mélisande has distinguished herself by merging traditional Quebec songs with electronic music, releasing four albums since 2014 with her project Mélisande [électrotrad] .

In 2024, she released the album Rembobine featuring a selection of her traditional songs performed with an acoustic quintet. In March 2025 she released the single Francos d'Amérique avec Jacobus as part of a new [électrotrad] project. She is busy touring with both projects and all tour dates are available on her this profile.

On the album Rembobine the artist revisits songs from her repertoire with a traditional Québécois sound, mostly acoustic, surrounded by four seasoned musicians. Long time accomplice Alexandre de Grosbois- Garand (wooden flute, bass), Jean Desrochers (acoustic guitar), Gabriel Girouard (fiddle, foot stomping) and Éric Breton (percussions) join her to create a high-energy sound with strong vocal harmonies. The multiple award-winning singer selected songs from her four releases to create the album Rembobine. These songs were unearthed during repertoire researches in folklorists collections, to excavations in archive centers and then by collecting traditional songs from elders along the Richelieu River. Mélisande cleverly enlivens the songs of the ancestors in a way that invites youth culture. The success of her four électrotrad albums, hailed by critics from home and abroad, allowed her group to present over 350 performances in Canada, Australia, Europe and the UnitedStates.