Les Poules a Colin

Born in Vermont, Beatrix spent her childhood in the region of Lanaudière, where she grew up immersed in music. Being the daughter of musicans parents, she listens to her father playing traditional Québécois tunes on the violin, and her mother singing folk songs from an early age.  She decides to try the fiddle at 9, when she enters elementary Shcool ” Les Mélèzes”, where she took classical music classes. She is a violinist at school, and soon becomes a fiddler at home with her father, who taught her tunes by ear. After a few years playing in local symphony orchestras, she dropped the classical world to devote herself to playing trad with her family group ”Dentdelion”, while developing an appeal for composition.  She joined Les Poules in Colin in 2008 and gradually made it  her main project. Over the years, she composed more and more, accumulating a repertoire of original songs that she plays in duo from time to time with her longtime friend, Colin Savoie-Levac, also a member of Les Poules à Colin.

Born in the Québec City region, Éléonore Pitre was exposed to traditional music early in life and began to play at age 4, starting out on violin. She moved to the Lanaudière region of Québec at the age of 14 where she starts playing the guitar. In 2007, Éléonore began her jazz-pop guitar technique at the Cégep Régional de Lanaudière in Joliette and graduated in 2010. She then studied in Artistic Practice: Guitar Jazz-Pop at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). In 2010, she was part of the corporate group The Pilots with whom she played for 2 months in Casablanca, Morocco. She has since played with several bands including Anik Jean, Les Belles Angels, Pink Chocolate Karine Ste-Marie and many others. She currently focuses on the  project Les Poules à Colin, and is also part of René Simard’s Nouveau Rêve tour (nominated for Best Performer of the Year, Interpreter).

Born to a musician mother, Marie Savoie-Levac began life listening to traditional Québécois music. At the age of 12 she began to play music with the flute. After five years playing flute, she decided to learn piano and entered the Joliette CÉGEP where she studied jazz-pop with the Quebec pianist Denis Frechette (La Bottine Souriante). Not long after, she started to play electric bass. She graduated from cégep with a diploma in music in 2010. She then studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal  (UQAM) in music education. In 2008, the folk band Les poules à Colin was founded. She traveled to major folk music festivals in Europe, the United States , UK and Canada, and recorded two albums with the band: Ste-Waves (2014), nominated at ADISQ for best traditionnal album of the year and Hébertisme Nocturne (2011). Since 2011, she has been keyboardist in corporate groups with whom she played, among others, for 2 months in Casablanca, Morocco.

Born in a family of musicians, Colin shows a marked interest in traditional music at a very young age. He started to play mandolin at the age of 12 studying with trad multi-instrumentalist and foot percussionist Michel Bordeleau (La Bottine Souriante, Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer).  He bought his first banjo in Connecticut in a musical camp, only a few months after his debut in music. Colin joined a year later Dentdelion, a traditional family group in which Béatrix Méthé was also a member. After studying music at the regional CEGEP of Lanaudière in Joliette, he became a full-time musician with Les Poules à Colin and The Duhks (a group that ended  in spring 2016). He is also replacing in groups like De temps Antan, La Bottine Souriante and Yves Lambert Trio.