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Website: https://www.kavaz.ca/
“From the start, when it was the instrument of the wood-god Pan, the flute has been associated with pure (some might say impure) energy. Its sound releases something naturally untamed, as if a squirrel were let loose in a church.”
-Seamus Heaney
François-Xavier is a Breton musician based in Montreal for about a decade. He took his first steps in music playing the bombarde in the world of « Bagadoù » competitions, a Breton term referring to Breton music orchestras. A few years later, FX discovered the wooden flute and Irish music. Mostly self-taught, FX always seeks to deepen his knowledge through encounters and workshops. Today, FX is immersed in Celtic traditional music while continuing his explorations in modal Eastern European music and electronic music. Very active in the traditional scene in Quebec, FX regularly plays for European dance events and performs on stage with the trio Kavaz and the group Saligaude. Most recently, FX and harpist Cécile Delage have been collaborating with Quebecois electronic music collectives such as Fox High Sound System and Abitek Sound System to perform live on their music sets.