ERE WE ARE AT OUR 24TH FESTIVAL! | invite you to gather your family and
friends together to join us under the big heated tents at Mackin Park for a weekend
like no other. Come experience brilliant music, dance, storytelling, entertaining
shows and activities for all ages, intriguing workshops and delicious food — plus
that something extra special. Let us show you some good old-fashioned Festival du Bois
hospitality, make you feel right at home, and share a bit of our friendly joie de vivre with you!

On our stages this year we present Québec-based groups who find new ways to make
traditional music sing for the 21% century, astonishing dance, intoxicating local and world
sounds along with some of the finest family entertainers around.

From Québec comes acclaimed “power trio” Genticorum,
the sparkling ‘two-family’ band, Dentdelion, Les Poules a
Colin, a feisty young tradition-inspired group, and Le Bal
a V’Huile, whose harmonic voices raised in traditional
song will send

| shivers up your
e spine.

We have three-
time World Champion Hoop Dancer Dallas Arcand
from Alberta and Matuto, a New York band who
blend the sounds of Brazilian Carnaval with the twang of
Americana. We also have two very different west coast-based
groups: the French folk-Celtic-old-time band Alouest, and the
Vashaan Ensemble playing Persian traditional music and folk music
from Iran.

For the youngster in us all, there’s multi-faceted entertainer Roger Dallaire, the hilarious
Major Conrad Flapps, and Acme Circus — a multilingual gourmet fusion of circus,
comedy and theatre. Festival favourites, comic/clowns Sand Northrup and Frenchie
the Clown return.

For the second year, your Saturday ticket gives you all-day access to the festival, including
the evening show with Le Bal a I’Huile and Genticorum in the Grand Chapiteau, starting
at 5:30pm.

You'll find the details on our Friday, March 1 co-presented Genticorum concert with the
City of Port Coquitlam 100th Anniversary celebrations, as well as our special Place des
Arts post-festival concert on March 9 with the incredible Cécile Doo-Kingué in this guide.

This year’s festival is open and diverse, with some of the well-loved and familiar along with
some things that are new. Come share the weekend with us. We welcome you to come
marvel and enjoy — and discover!

And, even now, let us look forward to our quarter-century celebration in 2014!

Johanne Dumas, Executive and Artistic Director

COQUITLAM FOOTBALL

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