Pas d'accent

A hard-earned, lifetime's worth of lessons on how to behave.

Cover photo Ussama Azam, unsplash.com. Background music ©Dana Whittle, sound effects from the author's archives and freesound.org. Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

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Getting ahead of – and keeping up with – the times. It's never too late to learn something new.

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Cover photo ©Dana Whittle. Background music I Ain't Dead Yet ©Dana Whittle, sound effects from the author's field recordings and freesound.org. Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

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Like modern-day folklore, many email scams - phishing - became familiar and meme-worthy. I was inspired to turn one of them into a song.

Words and music Dear Friend @2024 Dana Whittle, sound effects from the author's field recordings and freesound.org. Cover collage created by the author from archives and generated sources. Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

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Moving away from you-know-who.

Words and music Stay With Me ©Dana Whittle, music La Gigue à Francine ©Claude Méthé, sound effects from the author's field recordings and freesound.org. Cover collage created by the author from archives and generated source. Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

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If you're a performing artist, you have to constantly prove your very existence.

Theme music (traditional) from Sur le Bout du Banc, words and music Wing & Prayer ©Dana Whittle, sound effects from the author's field recordings and freesound.org. Cover photo Dana Whittle. Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

This podcast was initially published in August of 2022 as an article on pasdaccent.com and Medium. It is still applicable today.

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The true story that inspired a country song, from this American immigrant to Québéc.

Extra credits - Cover photo : Irene Kredenets (https://unsplash.com/@ikredenets). Additional music Zigue Guichet Voisin, ©2017 Dana Whittle, available from https://zigue.ca and all the usual places. Other sounds include field recordings by Dana Whittle and snippets from https://freesound.org.

Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

More from the author on https://pasdaccent.com, https://vizou.com and https://medium.com/vizou.

Copyright ©2020 Dana Whittle / Vizou. All rights reserved.

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On being a senior musician before, during and (hopefully) after a global pandemic.

Extra credits - Zigue, La grande gigue (pas) simple; Amanda; Ticket pour Québec, La gambadeuse, https://zigue.ca. Field recordings including New Orleans street sounds, Festival du violon de Sutton, Goderich Celtic & Roots Fest pub jam by Dana Whittle and https://freesound.org. Cover photo of Claude Méthé and Dana Whittle, ©2020 Dana Whittle.

Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

More from the author on https://pasdaccent.com, https://vizou.com and https://medium.com/vizou.

Copyright ©2020 Dana Whittle / Vizou. All rights reserved.

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Forty-plus artists, presenters and other folk industry players share their thoughts (and hottest tips) on artist showcasing at the 2019 Folk Alliance International conference in Montréal, Québec.

Extra credits - Recorded live at the 2019 Folk Alliance International conference in Montréal, Québec. Background music used with the permission of the participating artists. All rights reserved. Cover photo of The Malvinas (Gina Forsyth, Beth Cahill, Lisa Markley) ©2019 Dana Whittle.

Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

More from the author on https://pasdaccent.com, https://vizou.com and https://medium.com/vizou.

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Some of my earliest memories involve riding in cars, and as the years go by, automotive vehicles have added many chapters to my life story. This episode is a chronological account of some of my most memorable adventures in transportation..

Extra credits - Used with the permission of Claude Méthé (Les Bessonnes, https://claudemethe.com), Dana Whittle (Guichet Voisin, John Adams, Harmonica Spring, Double Yellow Line, La Tempête). All rights reserved. Public domain sound effects from https://freesound.org, plus a few field recordings by the author.

Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

More from the author on https://pasdaccent.com, https://vizou.com and https://medium.com/vizou.

Copyright ©2018 Dana Whittle / Vizou. All rights reserved.

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Excerpts from my ongoing trip through the Québec traditional music universe - an informal Québec Trad 101.

Extra credits - Used courtesy of Claude Méthé (L’Amant Confesseur), Aimé Gagnon (Violoneux d’origine), Dentdelion (La Tondeuse), Hélène Fournier (from project Le Bal des Animaux). Field recordings by Dana Whittle, public domain, lachassebalcon.com and claudemethe.com.

Theme music My Radio’s Frozen ©Dana Whittle. All rights reserved. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Vizou, Sainte-Béatrix, Québec.

More from the author on https://pasdaccent.com, https://vizou.com and https://medium.com/vizou.

Copyright ©2018 Dana Whittle / Vizou. All rights reserved.