La Veillée de Noel

• Suzie LeBlanc returns to her roots with Christmas in the Cradle of Acadia, a recording of traditional songs from the collection Berceau de l’Acadie [Cradle of Acadia]. Originating from various regions in France, most of these songs were sung by the Acadians of the Memramcook valley in New Brunswick. • Though Suzie LeBlanc and her collaborators have taken a folk or Baroque approach to most of the songs in Christmas in the Cradle of Acadia, some of them receive a more modern treatment influenced by jazz or swing. LeBlanc is accompanied by veteran musicians with whom she has worked for many years: violinist David Greenberg,who played on both her previous ATMA albums of Acadian music, Tout Passe and La Mer Jolie; percussionist Nick Halley; and harpsichordist Alexander Weimann, with whom she has collaborated on many early music projects.