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Le Chœur du Plateau se veut incarner et représenter l’excellence du monde choral amateur au pays. Il souhaite être reconnu pour sa grande qualité artistique et par le caractère exceptionnel de l’implication de sa direction artistique et de ses choristes.

Stacey Brown is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, adjunct professor of music, and published French-English translator now based in St. John's (Newfoundland) after two decades in Montreal. Her music includes opera and concert works, from solo to orchestra, as well as music for projects involving theatre and dance.
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Stacey Brown est compositrice agréée du Centre de musique canadienne, chargée de cours en musique et traductrice français-anglais nouvellement installée à St. John's (Terre-Neuve) après deux décennies à Montréal. Sa musique couvre tant la musique de concert, du solo à l’orchestre, que la musique pour le théâtre, la danse et l'opéra.

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2016 BBC Folk Award Winners - Best Original Track
2016 BBC Folk Award Nominees - Horizon

"Superb" The Independent
"Magnificent" Songlines * * * * *
"Quite simply extraordinary" fRoots

Much loved Yorkshire folk duo Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow have been propelled into newfound fame for penning the theme tune to Sally Wainwright’s hit BBC1/HBO drama ‘Gentleman Jack’, earning them global admiration, appearances on TV, Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and concerts that sell out months in advance.

Belinda and Heidi’s boundless songwriting has been described by The Guardian as ‘exceptional’ and The Independent as ‘defiant, robust, northern, poetical, political folk music for the times we live in.’ Their first full studio album in seven years; ‘Cloudheads’ delves into the mindscapes, passions and inner worlds of two highly individual autistic women; Belinda and Heidi. Moving, melodic, dramatic and tender, from stories of parenthood, the call of a song thrush, to a portrait of the last days of a touching relationship between their neighbour Matthew and his beloved Alsatian, Ted, and even a collaboration with Gentleman Jack herself, Suranne Jones on ‘The Ballad of Anne and Ann’, they explore, consider and connect subjects and stories in a distinctive, inventive and memorable way.

Having the originality and skill to invite comparison with the most celebrated harmony duos, 6 Music’s Tom Robinson says ‘They sing together in the way families do. Normally, you only get that closeness in the voices with family bands like The Coppers or The Watersons.’

‘I have just listened to your track, ‘Beryl’, with tears in my eyes! It’s beautiful and brilliant.’ Maxine Peake 

Nominated four times for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ‘Best Duo’.

* * * * * The Guardian  

‘Brave, beautiful and full of love.’ Martin Simpson

‘Insightful, determinedly left-field angles on the human experience.’ 
* * * * MOJO Folk Album of the Month

'Have Belinda and Heidi done it again? Certainly.’  
* * * * * R2  

'Dense, complex, beautifully performed.’ 
 * * * * Songlines

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