La Butte à Mathieu

From 1959 to 1976, in the midst of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, La Butte à Mathieu, the first boîte à chanson outside Montréal, attracted all kinds of talent to Val-David, a village nestled in the Laurentian mountains. Actors, poets, painters, writers, sculptors and ceramists gathered around a cohort of singer-songwriters who did not then realize the impact they would have on Quebec culture forever, nor that their talent would end up crossing borders. 

Even on the roof!