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Mary Rose-Anne Bolduc, born Travers, (June 4, 1894 – February 20, 1941) was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc . During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Canadian Folk Singers .
Madame or La Bolduc (née Marie or Mary-Rose-Anne Travers), singer, songwriter, harmonica player, 'violoneuse' (born 4 June 1894 in Newport, Gaspésie, Que; died 20 February 1941 in Montreal).
Dec 13, 2021 · Starting in the late 1920s Mary Rose Anna Travers wrote many songs in colloquial French that expressed the joys and miseries of the common people. Born to a large family of English descent in Newport, Québec on the Gaspé peninsula, she left home at to work as a domestic in Montréal.
Feb 7, 2006 · La Bolduc, née Marie or Mary-Rose-Anne Travers, singer-songwriter, harmonica player, fiddler (born 4 June 1894 in Newport, Gaspésie, Qc; died 20 February 1941 in Montréal).
Jul 28, 2018 · Producers have released new remixes of her songs. You can study her work at university. And a biopic, simply called La Bolduc, will put her story onto big screens in a few weeks. Mixed descent....
Apr 21, 2016 · Well, she was born Mary Rose Anna Travers (an English name) on June 4, 1894, in Newport, in the Gaspé Peninsula. That year, 1894, was a year when famine struck, which explains to an extent the dire poverty of the Travers family.
French-Canadian singer and musician who was Canada's first great chansonniére. Name variations: La Bolduc; Mary Travers. Born Marie or Mary-Rose-Anne Travers in Newport, Gaspésie, Quebec, Canada, on June 4, 1894; died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on February 20, 1941; married Édouard Bolduc (a plumber), in 1914.
