{"id":10695,"date":"2022-06-30T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&#038;p=10695"},"modified":"2022-06-30T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:11:43","slug":"celebrating-saskatchewans-francophone-community","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/celebrating-saskatchewans-francophone-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Saskatchewan\u2019s Francophone community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you\u2019re in Saskatchewan next week, you might check out the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/festivalfransaskois.org\/home-eng\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Festival fransaskois<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0 happening from July 8 to 10th at Pike Lake Provincial Park, near Saskatoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This outdoor party with great music, arts and crafts, sports, and children\u2019s programming, has been a major unifying event for the Fransaskois community since 1980.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s big stage artists include Montreal\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewinstonband.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Winston Band<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, known for their lively zydeco performances and infectious energy, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/prairiecomeau1.bandcamp.com\/album\/prairie-comeau\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prairie Comeau<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (with Fransaskois singer-songwriter Anique Granger and Quebec-born composer-keyboardist Beno\u00eet Archambault), St. Boniface-born-comedian Micheline Marchildon, and Acadian indie trio <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/leshaybabies.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Les Hay Babies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Also, look for talented Fransaskois artists like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nyenimana.kellysamantha\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samantha Nyenimana<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zf7-ANdASFQ&amp;t=4s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dominique Fr\u00e9chette<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-732889468\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lunch Krew<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The F\u00eate Fransaskoise Festival is the only francophone summer music festival in Saskatchewan. It aims to celebrate the French language and maintain and celebrate Saskatchewan\u2019s francophone spirit. It has been organised since 2014 by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturel.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conseil culturel fransaskois<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image: Festival fransaskois (Facebook &#8211; 2019)<br \/>\n<em><strong>Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10697,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[61],"class_list":["post-10695","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-culture-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}