2024 ALBUM RELEASE - THOSE DAYS

Those Days

Marc Audet

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THOSE DAYS offers an Ottawa Valley strain of folk music with accordion, whistle, fiddle, mandolin, piano, banjo, harmonica and beautiful harmony vocals (not at the same time though!). The collection of songs covers all the bases with song topics, musical stylings, and the impressions that they leave. Songs about the history and heritage of the

THOSE DAYS offers an Ottawa Valley strain of folk music with accordion, whistle, fiddle, mandolin, piano, banjo, harmonica and beautiful harmony vocals (not at the same time though!). The collection of songs covers all the bases with song topics, musical stylings, and the impressions that they leave. Songs about the history and heritage of the Ottawa Valley are there as well. Take a musical tour of the creative notions of songwriter Marc Audet.

CDs will be available for purchase in early March. Contact me to pre-order.

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OPEN WATER, 2023 (the sound of North Renfrew)

Open Water

Marc Audet

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The project was to remix six songs from The River, 2019. I love the full band versions on the album, but I also wanted to hear the songs with a more sparse sound/orchestration. This sound is what the folk group North Renfrew was put together for. It's a sweet sound combining guitar, accordion, fiddle, and mandolin/banjo.

Song 7 is a bonus track

The project was to remix six songs from The River, 2019. I love the full band versions on the album, but I also wanted to hear the songs with a more sparse sound/orchestration. This sound is what the folk group North Renfrew was put together for. It's a sweet sound combining guitar, accordion, fiddle, and mandolin/banjo.

Song 7 is a bonus track (Close to Home). Half of the proceeds from song/album downloads will go to the local hospital foundation in support of their Closer to Home fund raising effort.

ALBUM REVIEW [R.H. 2024 Feb 23] Open Water is the perfect album to listen to entering Spring, with soft, supple folk Celtic roots and soothing lyrics trickling together like a stream coming back to life, flowing into the river after winter. This album inspires feelings of warmth and coming home wherever you are, but especially in the Ottawa Valley. Marc’s ability to invoke the feeling of interconnectivity between being human and one with nature in this album is breathtakingly beautiful and quite indicative of his connecting to where he is from himself. In his song, Holden Lake, he sings, “I will never forget my land. My feet still feel the stones in the sand. I will never forget my land. I still see the patterns on her hands.” It reminds us that the love for everything around us is as strong as our memories of the simple things we find joy in. It’s not always about the big things, but small things in a small town. This point is further brought to light in Close to Home, when Marc sings, “This place is me I can’t explain, it’s good to know some things never end.” Our connection to where we are and how it influences who we are is forever. This album would make anyone who considers the Valley home, proud to live here, and not only find comfort in the company of neighbours and nature, but utterly everything around us.

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THE RIVER, 2019

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For many, rivers are a perpetual life force. They have shaped the landscape over the millennia, they sustain a wealth of biodiversity, and they have greatly influenced our cultural heritage. They provide a means of travel, a source of prosperity, a renewal of spirit and they call to me as a metaphor for the trials of life. The River is a

For many, rivers are a perpetual life force. They have shaped the landscape over the millennia, they sustain a wealth of biodiversity, and they have greatly influenced our cultural heritage. They provide a means of travel, a source of prosperity, a renewal of spirit and they call to me as a metaphor for the trials of life. The River is a compilation of songs about life experiences and stories of life and times in the Ottawa Valley. The debut album was released on 22 February 2019.

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If you would like to purchase a physical copy of the album in CD format, but you are uncomfortable with making the purchase with PayPal, please contact me by e-mail or phone/text and we'll work this out using other methods.

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Forgotten Memories of the Ottawa Valley (Live Folklore Folk Show), 2021

Forgotten Memories of the Ottawa Valley is a unique folk music show that is a collection of songs about the history and heritage of the Ottawa Valley.  The collection of songs has been arranged to provide a musical tour of the Ottawa Valley, with introductory narratives (story telling) providing  informative insights to the days and the ways of the past. The songs reflect the early years of river travels, immigration, logging, farming, rural/frontier life, and the effects of later industrialization. These topics are relevant to areas beyond the Ottawa Valley because the early peoples everywhere in

what became Canada would have experienced similar challenges with settlement, travel, and life. Effort has been put into researching the topics of the songs and the repertoire continues to grow as new stories are put to song. This “folklore” style of entertainment is an appealing for people with an interest in history and heritage. Every story is true.

The show is the creation of Ottawa Valley singer/songwriter Marc Audet. Marc’s writings of historic events and past ways of life were inspired by visiting and exploring the crumbling remains of logging camps, depot farms and wagon roads located throughout the Valley. For Marc, these ruins project inspiration and they would soon be lost to the forests, if it weren’t for Marc’s effort to put these stories to song.

The free distribution of this project earned Marc a Certificate of Congratulations from MPP John Yakabuski!

Ottawa Valley History Canadianna Folklore

Forgotten Memories of the Ottawa Valley (Folk Show)

Marc Audet Singer/Songwriter

Forgotten Memories is a unique folk show that takes you on a historical musical tour of the Ottawa Valley. The show is currently provided as a 2 set, 2 hour house concert live show, but during the lockdown periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was made available to everyone after recording a series of live recordings and videos of the songs

Forgotten Memories is a unique folk show that takes you on a historical musical tour of the Ottawa Valley. The show is currently provided as a 2 set, 2 hour house concert live show, but during the lockdown periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was made available to everyone after recording a series of live recordings and videos of the songs of the show. These recordings/videos were provided to retirement homes, care facilities and other congregate settings so that the people experiencing COVID isolation could experience a safe form of entertainment.

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