{"id":1321,"date":"2024-04-24T13:55:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:36:19","slug":"sluice-brings-19th-century-acadian-dispatches-to-life-with-new-video-lannee-des-trois-huits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/2024\/04\/24\/sluice-brings-19th-century-acadian-dispatches-to-life-with-new-video-lannee-des-trois-huits\/","title":{"rendered":"SLUICE BRINGS 19TH CENTURY ACADIAN DISPATCHES TO LIFE WITH NEW VIDEO, “L\u2019ANN\u00c9E DES TROIS HUITS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ahead of two showcases at the\u00a0East Coast Music Awards: Festival & Conference<\/strong>\u00a0(ECMAs<\/strong>) this May, Acadian powerpop band\u00a0SLUICE<\/strong>\u00a0unveils a music video for “L\u2019ann\u00e9e des trois huits<\/a>.”\u00a0Watch it\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0or above.

“L\u2019ann\u00e9e des trois huits”\u00a0is the latest radio single from Sluice\u2019s sophomore album,\u00a0Archiviste<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0– a collection of stories about the history of Acadian communities in Southwestern Nova Scotian called Par-en-Bas written during a series of research residencies at the Argyle Township Court House & Archives in Tusket, NS.\u00a0

The idea for the song was developed after reading\u00a0A History of Wedgeport Nova Scotia<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Donald W. Jacquard<\/strong>. In his history of this Acadian village, which is one of many in the region of Par-en-Bas, Jacquard writes: “Year 1888 is well remembered in Wedgeport\u2019s oral history as the ‘Year of the Three Eights’ (L\u2019ann\u00e9e-des-trois-huits). The severity of the 1888 winter distinguishes that year from the others, and in that respect it was not a typical year.”

“From there, I wanted to find the primary sources to corroborate this oral tradition,”\u00a0explains Sluice\u2019s\u00a0Trevor Murphy<\/strong>. “I found old editions of\u00a0l’\u00c9vang\u00e9line<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0– a French-language newspaper founded in Nova Scotia that was published from 1887 to 1982 – on microfiche at the archives and looked for articles specifically from the year 1888. At that time,\u00a0l’\u00c9vang\u00e9line<\/em>\u00a0published small columns from each village if there was news to pass – dispatches from the communities. I honed in on columns from 1888, particularly writings from Tusket-Wedge (the previous name for Wedgeporn) and other villages in Par-en-Bas.”

The lyrics were, in large part, taken directly from these\u00a0\u00c9vangeline<\/em>\u00a0columns – sometimes word for word.\u00a0

The story behind the song has piqued the interest of journalists and radio broadcasters across the country. It has been featured on\u00a0ICI Musique<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0L\u2019Effet Pogonat<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and was named\u00a0Son de la semaine<\/strong>\u00a0(Sound of the Week) by the show\u00a0Nouveaux sons<\/strong><\/em>.

The video was directed and edited by Toronto\u2019s\u00a0Stephan Macleod<\/strong>\u00a0with additional footage provided by\u00a0Shawn Bourque<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0Greenlight Studios\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Jesse Macleod<\/strong>.

On the heels of this new video & radio single, Sluice announces a series of performances in Atlantic Canada including a special ‘Songs & Stories-meets-TedTalk’\u00a0acoustic presentation at the Argyle Township Courthouse & Archives. Dates are as follows:
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May 03 –\u00a0Charlottetown, PE<\/strong>\u00a0@ Trailside Music Hall (ECMA Showcase)
May 04 –\u00a0Charlottetown, PE<\/strong>\u00a0@ Charlottetown Beer Garden (ECMA Showcase)
May 15 –\u00a0Tusket, NS<\/strong>\u00a0@ Argyle Township Courthouse & Archives (Acoustic show)
June 08 –\u00a0Pubnico, NS<\/strong>\u00a0@ West Pubnico Legion<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of two showcases at the\u00a0East Coast Music Awards: Festival & Conference\u00a0(ECMAs) this May, Acadian powerpop band\u00a0SLUICE\u00a0unveils a music video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}