Biography

La Bottine Souriante is a folk band from Quebec, Canada, specializing in traditional Quebecois music, often with a modern twist. Formed in 1976, they have toured extensively through North America and Europe. As well as the traditional accordion, fiddle, guitar, piano and double bass, the band added a four-piece horn section in 1990 which gives an element of jazz to the music. In 1998, they contributed a song to the Canadian Celtic music compilation by The Chieftains, Fire in the Kitchen. (Dans nos vieilles maisons, Ch'pas capable, La chanson du quêteux, Un coup mesdames, Le rap à ti-pétang, Le p'tit porte-clé, Le lanlire (La poule à Colin), Martin de la chasse galerie, La tourtière, Le démon sort de l'enfer, La cuisinière)