Les Hay Babies are a band from Moncton, New Brunswick who has been around for 14 years! They recently played at Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto as part of their summer festival touring session. The three female members, Katrine Noël, Julie Aubé and Vivianne Roy have been doing music since they were in high school and have no plans of stopping.
Their fifth album Tintamarre was written in Louisiana which is the cajun sister community to the Acadians of the Maritimes. During their set at Horseshoe Tavern they shared stories of creating the album, like going to a remote area and meeting a man who was from l’Île-aux-vaches (or Cow Island) and proceeded to take in the girls, introduce them to his family and show them a non-tourist experience of Louisiana. This sparked the song about the kindness of this man. Other new songs from Tintamarre about their time in the states include the song Some People about going to Nashville to become famous.
The crowd at Horseshoe Tavern was very Maritimer and Acadian with people from Moncton, Caraquet and Scoudouc shouted out in the crowd. The girls played old hits of theirs including Chu pas one femme a marier, En Californie, and Néguac and Back. The girls wore amazing country inspired red and white fringed matching suit made by Julie. They danced, stomped, clapped and head-banged through their latest album, playing the vast majority of it and coming back for an encore before selling their merch.
While the trio does sing in French (and tell stories in English) they did share in our interview that they want to play festivals everywhere to expose people to Acadian culture, French culture and not always be forced to play French festivals or the same places continuously. We can’t wait to see where Les Hay Babies will show up next! Catch their tour dates here with shows scheduled until the end of October.
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