Cover Photo taken by Anne Audet (at Rockingham Church)

Welcome to Marc Audet Music (and NORTH RENFREW Folk Music Group)

Thanks for visiting my web page, and Welcome! Be sure to check out songs from my album, The River, on the Music page (/music). In there also are recordings and videos of newer songs of mine that will be recorded in 2023. Please add my music to your playlists, if you subscribe to services like Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, Apple Music. Just search for Marc Audet to find my album, The River.

Latest News

 2023 March

Welcome everybody to my website. I hope that you enjoy the videos and music and bits of interesting historical information that are here because of the historical songwriting that is a focus of mine.  I love being creative, I love music and how beneficial it is in many ways, I love history and exploring the traces of the past that can be found in wilderness areas, and I love bringing all of this together in historical songwriting. Better still, I love performing sets of music that convey the interesting heritage and history of my part of the world, the Ottawa Valley. Take a look at the graphic below that maps out where my historical songwriting takes you throughout the Ottawa Valley.

I have new songs that are being recorded, and I am progressing with the recording of a second album, so visit now and again to see new material. New videos from 2022 shows are also being added to the website.

This website is also home to my folk music group NORTH RENFREW. We have a refreshingly unique sound and our goal is to share our music of festival stages. If you are a festival Artistic Director, book us! You won't regret it.

LIVE MUSIC ... livestream shows, house concerts, folk shows

Throughout the spring, I will be performing throughout the Ottawa Valley with my Winter Folk Show, and my show featuring exclusively stories and songs about the history and heritage of the Ottawa Valley, Forgotten Memories of the Ottawa Valley. Watch for show announcements. Book me to perform a house concert (either show) in your home or community centre, or for your historical society or museum, to help take the chill off the long Canadian winter. 

Thanks for spending time on my website, stay healthy and enjoy life!.  If you enjoy my music, sign up for notifications (/contact), or send me a note of encouragement.

Here's a neat graphic - the geo-demographics of Marc Audet Music. The song places mark the route of my musical tour of the Ottawa Valley in the folklore video series Forgotten Memories of the Ottawa Valley (/videos). I promised a friend that I would write a song about the logging and river drives along the Schyan River, so hopefully that'll appear on the map before long. 

If you haven't heard some of these songs, and stories, spend some time exploring my video series Forgotten Memories of the Ottawa Valley. Better still, book me to entertain in the new year ... I love house concerts.

Riverdrive Dance

Marc Audet

The Dumoine River is one of many rivers in the Ottawa valley that was subject to intense logging starting in the mid-1800s, and it was that logging boom in Canada that brought development, employment and prosperity to the Ottawa Valley. River drives were initially the way to transport logs from the winter cutting limits to the sawmills at Ottawa.

The Dumoine River is one of many rivers in the Ottawa valley that was subject to intense logging starting in the mid-1800s, and it was that logging boom in Canada that brought development, employment and prosperity to the Ottawa Valley. River drives were initially the way to transport logs from the winter cutting limits to the sawmills at Ottawa. This song refers to the riverdrives on the Dumoine with that ended in 1961. It was dangerous work and many men perished. The remains of riverdrive camps, log chutes and cribs can still be found along the rivers, although barely discernable. Enjoy the song cover artwork by Jelly Massee (https://www.facebook.com/jellymasseesgallery).

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Upcoming Live Shows

I am currently booking shows for the spring and summer. My new focus with performing is to concentrate on house concerts and specialty shows where audiences are attentive and interested in my music.  I will still be performing occasionally in noisy pubs and restaurants, and at summer markets, but these types of shows will be far less frequent. There will also be FaceBook livestream shows occasionally where I can reach out to followed in other parts of Canada and worldwide. Find me and follow me on FaceBook for those show announcements.

Come out to check out my live shows, whether in a pub, a festival, a house concert, a gallery, or wherever I can find an opportunity to perform.

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