{"id":2271,"date":"2010-12-23T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:42:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:42:02","slug":"vishten-acadian-folk-and-step-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2271","title":{"rendered":"Visht\u00e8n \u2735 Great Acadian Folk and Step Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the homepage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musical Instruments Museum<\/a> I have found a video by the Acadian group <strong>Visht\u00e8n<\/strong> who will play a concert in January in this museum. I was immediately hit by this video,\u00a0 and I decided to find out more about this group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visht\u00e8n<\/strong> was founded about 10 years ago and is located in the Eastern part of Canada, the part named <strong>Acadia<\/strong> which consists of <strong>Nova Scotia<\/strong>, <strong>New Brunswick<\/strong> and the <strong>Prince Edward Island<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Vist\u00e8n play a selection of franco-canadian folk music and other folk music with accordeon, fiddle, guitar, flute, bodhran, banjo and also with mandolin. And they use their feet to add some extra percussion to their performances, or even add some step dancing to the songs. Great music with a lot of energie that animates to dance and move with the music.<\/p>\n<p>Members of\u00a0 Visht\u00e8n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emmanuelle LeBlanc &#8211; Bodhran, Piano, Whistles, Dance, Voice.<\/li>\n<li>Pascal Miousse &#8211; Fiddle, Mandolin, Guitar, Voice.<\/li>\n<li>Pastelle LeBlanc &#8211; Accordion, Piano, Dance and Voice.<\/li>\n<li>Louis-Charles &#8211; Vigneau Guitar, Banjo, Mandoline, Voice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some videos with Visth\u00e8n:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Vishten Va T&#8217;assir<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vishten Va T&#039;assir\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IF2-JGuEjS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Playlist Vishten<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Visht\u00e8n\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL7E2AC3417EE9B855\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Additional Information<\/h4>\n<p>Homepage (including a player with 4 songs): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vishten.net\/en\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.vishten.net\/en\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=vishten&amp;aq=f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=vishten&amp;aq=f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia (engl.) about Visht\u00e8n: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vishten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vishten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herschel Freeman about Visht\u00e8n (with player): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herschelfreemanagency.com\/vishten\/vishten.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.herschelfreemanagency.com\/vishten\/vishten.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Album Review Mosaik: <a href=\"http:\/\/tradconnect.com\/profiles\/blogs\/album-review-vishten-mosaik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tradconnect.com\/profiles\/blogs\/album-review-vishten-mosaik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interview about the new\u00a0 CD Mosaik: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/allinaweekend\/2012\/09\/16\/acadian-and-quebecois-influences-for-vishtens-new-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/allinaweekend\/2012\/09\/16\/acadian-and-quebecois-influences-for-vishtens-new-album\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the homepage of the Musical Instruments Museum I have found a video by the Acadian group Visht\u00e8n who will play a concert in January in this museum. I was immediately hit by this video,\u00a0 and I decided to find out more about this group. Visht\u00e8n was founded about 10 years ago and is located 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