Envoyons de l’avant - French Canadian Song

Vocals, arrangement and video by Farya Faraji. It took me a shamefully long time to post a song about my home culture, but it’s finally here. Envoyons de l’avant is a very old, and relatively obscure song in our traditional music here in Québec; you usually won’t find most people playing it during the holiday season or singing it in traditional albums--it’s an old air sung by woodworkers, and details them returning to their homes and families after having left for the un-colonised areas of Canada where they chopped wood. Musically speaking, the music of Québec is interesting; I call it “Irish music with French lyrics,“ and although it’s a bit of a generalisation, it’s not completely untrue either. The amount of Irish immigration in Québec is absolutely astounding, and I know very, very few ethnic-born French Canadians who don’t have some degree of Irish ancestry. This degree of assimilation into the local culture, mirrored in the U.S, heavily influe