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Les Païens in Roubaix, France in October 2007 The Headlines • Sessions With has produced a 2 part documentairy on Les PaÏens It's available on their website sessionswith.com . There are highlights from our gig on march 3rd @ the Capitol Theater. Check it out! GIGS! December 14th: Fredericton, The Capitol bar with Chillin Room December 15th: Saint-John, Elwoods JAM NIGHT @ DOC'S every 2d Saturday ...come on down and jam with us and other jammers! (VISITE JAMCAST for info or check out our group in facebook) DATES 1, 15, 29 dec • MYSPACE • we have a FACEBOOK GROUP
October 16th Les Païens with Issac and Blewett during the Frye Festival. We had a chance to play with these cats again for the Concert for the River organized to help out the River Keepers in their work to restore the Peticodiac river. We love you guys!!!	• Sessions With has produced a 2 part documentairy on Les PaÏens It's available on their website sessionswith.com . There are highlights from our gig on march 3rd @ the Capitol Theater. Check it out! Oct 18th & 20th, Roubais, France La Condition Publique JAM NIGHT @ DOC'S every 2d Saturday ...come on down and jam with us and other jammers! (VISITE JAMCAST for info or check out our group in facebook) DATES 3, 17 nov 1, 15, 29 dec • MYSPACE • we have a FACEBOOK GROUP
august 20th	THE HEADLINES • Sessions With has produced a 2 part documentairy on Les PaÏens It's available on their website sessionswith.com . There are highlights from our gig on march 3rd @ the Capitol Theater. Check it out! AUG 24-The Capital Bar- Fredericton with Skyhook AUG 25 -The Attic- Halifax with Skyhook AUG 31 - Tha Manhattan, Moncton - Benefit gig SEPT 14 - Théâtre l'Escaouette, Moncton with Soul Jazz Orchestra 15 SEPT - Harvest Jazz & Blues with Grand Dérangement OCT 18+20 - Lille, France - @ La Condition Publique JAM NIGHT @ DOC'S (visit JAMCAST) 25 AUGUST SEPT 8th SEPT 22d • VISIT OUR MYSPACE
MAY 30th 2007 Shawn Graham presented us for the opening night of Music NB Week @ the Algonquin in St-Andrews.	THE HEADLINES • LES PAÏENS will be playing @ Colin Barleys CD "Barley and the Dirt" launch June 7th @ the Capitol Theater • June 8th in Saint-John @ Elwoods...with the Matt Dylan band and the Strombachs. • Sessions With will be presenting a short documentairy on Les PaÏens as of June 5th. It will be available on their website sessionswith.com • JAM NIGHT @ DOC'S (VISIT JAMCAST FOR INFO, AUDIO AND PICS!) JUNE 2D JUNE 16TH JUNE 30TH JULY 14TH JULY 28TH AUG 11TH AUG 25TH Check out our MYSPACE
this room in front of ours is not for rent... Lloyd the bartender told me so...and that pair of twins kept on showing up in the halway.

APRIL 17TH

THE HEADLINES
APRIL 26, 28, 29 FRYE FESTIVAL
MAY 3RD, CARAQUET, CHEZ BB
MAY 5 TH NOMINATION AT THE PRIX ÉLOIZES
MAY 17TH - ST-ANDREWS OPENING OF MUSIC NB WEEK
MAY 18TH - ST-ANDREWS, SHOWCASE @ MNB WEEK
JUNE 8TH - ST-JOHN WITH GARAJ MAHAL FROM SAN FRANSISCO, CA **CANCELLED**

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DETAILS

Festival Frye
Les Païens are playing 3 times during the The Frye Festival. Here are the details:

APRIL 26TH : Soirée Frye
8:00 pm
Readings by: Karen Solie, Georgette LeBlanc, Marilyn Lerch and Bryan Perro
Musical Guests: Isaac & Blewett with Les Païens
Admission is $5 at the door or look for your free pass in: Mascaret, Here, Dieppe Journal, This Week Moncton and This Week Riverview
Reception follows
Capitol Theatre

2APRIL 28TH Frye Jam
8:00 pm to 11:00 pm
An extravaganza of readings of all kinds, music and a comic jam!
Hosts: Les Païens
Musical Guests: Drew Landry, Suzanne Léger, Sean Booth & ParaNerd, Pascal Lejeune and pAn
Admission: $10
Aberdeen Cultural Centre

APRIL 29TH : Poet flyé Says Bye Bye!
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Paul Bossé reads his Poet flyé epic creation
Unveiling of the Northrop Frye commemorative plaque
Free admission, food, music and parking!
Greater Moncton International Airport

Jam au Doc Dylans
every 2d Saturday ...come on down and jam with us and other jammers! Visit jamCAST to hear some of the jams from Jam night! Here are the dates:
April 7th and 21st
May 5th and 19th
June 2d, 16th and 30th

Our show at the Capitol theater was a great night! !
Thaks to a great team that made it happen with us: Philip André Collette, Hélène Eusanio, James Boyle, Paul Bossé, Chris Leblanc, pAn, Brian Coughlan, André Bourgeois, Glen Deveau, Fred Hétu, Jocelyne Vautour, Pierre André, Arne Fulton, Stéphane Basque. Cheers to the team at Sessionswith.com for helping us video tape the show. Thanks to to TEAM-Capitol: Marc Chouinard, André Williams, Clarence, Odette...We hope to have Video soon...photos here!

JAN 7th 2007
here....comes ....annnnnn other one! 2007.yay.

Gigs:

Jan 26th : St-John @ Elwoods

March 3d : Moncton @ The Capitol Theater
(We're gonna get dressed up and all too!)

March 10th : Baie Ste-Marie @ le Chateau

Jam night @ Doc Dylans on these dates:
JAN 13, 27
FEB 10th, 24
MARCH 10, 24

Dec 14th
ho ho hhhhoh!!

Here are a couple of Ideas for PAIEN Christmas presents!!

Thanks to All of Green and the Fussy part for letting us open up for them @ the Cellar on Déc 1st. We now head into the winter months hoping to write our new disc.

Another reminder that every 2d saturday we Jam @ Doc Dylans ...COME ON DOWN!!

NOVEMBER 15TH 2006
La soirée du 10 novembre : un "great time"

Big thanks to the bands : The Fussy Part from Fredericton, The Sleepless Nights from Halifax and local boys Heethcliff. A big BON to the jammers Yoanna from Swizterland who rocked out with her accordion and Alex for his MEGA RAPS.

La crew: George & Michline @ the bar, Lou @ the door, Hélène who set up and did the lights , James did a great job on sound, Jerry & Kyle with the pics (photos here) , Jonah who recorded the night (we hope to be able to have it here soon!), Paul & Chops for the 3 floor loadin...ouf! thanks to Michèle of the Centre Culturel Aberdeen who made sure we got our liquor liscence.M'a l'awère mon permis d'bière!

Shows comin' up
1er décembre: Centre Sainte-Anne, Fredericton. a shoe for the students in the afternoon

1er décembre: The Cellar, UNB campus, Fredericton. with The Fussy Part.

October 30th

LES PAÏENS, with guests the Fussy Part, The Sleepless Nights and Heethcliff will be making the Aberdeen cultural center vibrate on november 10th. (press release)

Come and support maritime talent!!

Friday, November 10th
On the 3d floor of the Aberdeen cultural center, 140 Botsford Street
10$ at the door
Doors open at 9PM, show starts at 9:30PM
The will be a bar on site.

Les Païens are hosting the Jam @ Doc Dylans
every 2d Saturday ...come on down and jam with us and other jammers! check out the poster

SEPT 25TH 2006

Caraquet en Bleu, Sept 21st

Jam night @ Doc's sept 23d

The Fussy Part opened up for us @ the Tap Room during Harvest Jazz, sept 16th

Divine Heist opened up for us @ the attic in Halifax on sept 1st

Thanks to Caraquet en Bleu and Harvest Jazz for the invite. we had a blast! Thanks to Meanyfest for inviting us to their festival in New York...Sorry we couldn't make it...we're too poor to make over there!

Thanks goes out to the bands we played with this summer: Vanderpark, Tala, Devine Heist, The Fussy Part, Shaun et Riel Orkestra, the Realm...BON!

Les païens have a myspace page...wanna be ow fwend?
myspace.com/paiens

RADIO-PAIEN is now on-line (powered by Webjay

Les Païens are hosting the Jam @ Doc Dylans every 2d Saturday ...come on down and jam with us and other jammers! check out the poster

GIG!

October 6th - Fredericton @ The Capital

Septembre 6th
Les païens have a myspace page...wanna be ow fwend?
myspace.com/paiens

RADIO-PAIEN is now on-line (powered by Webjay

NEWS

september 9th- Les Païens are going to host a jam-improv night @ Doc Dylan's every 2d Saturday. check the poster for the dates.

september 15th - Opening of the FICFA, Moncton @ 3d floor Centre culturel aberdeen. 21H. We'll be playing a set then sound-tracking live poetry...

September 16th - Harvest Jazz & Blues festival, Fredericton @ The Taproom with the Fussy Part

September 21st - Caraquet en Bleu Festival, Caraquet @ Carfour de la mer

October 6th - Fredericton @ The Capital

AUGUST 12th

This pic was stolen from Alain Richard...he took a bunch of pics before a show in Fredericton NB in may...tones more on his stie http://flickr.com/photos/popalain

Les païens have a myspace page...wanna be ow fwend?
myspace.com/paiens

You can listen to our music via webjay... download too...très cool

The Gigs :

August 26th - St-John @ Elwoods

September 1st - Halifax @ the Attic

september 15th - Opening of the FICFA, Moncton @ 3d floor Centre culturel aberdeen.

September 16th - Harvest Jazz & Blues festival, Fredericton @ The Taproom

September 23d - Caraquet en Bleu Festival, Caraquet @ Carfour de la mer

September 27th - Meanyfest, New York @ Pianos (cancelled)

October 6th - Fredericton @ The Capital

June 3rd

photo: Kyle Cunjak (http://www.cunjak.com)

Paris mars 2006 (photo: Albert Weber)

June 16th
Halifax @ the Attic,1741 Grafton Street, Halifax, NS B3J 2C6
(902) 423-0909
11 pm

June 21st
WORLD MUSIC DAY
with the General Consulate of France in the Atlantic Provinces
Venue : L'Empress From 7pm to 9pm, Come and enjoy music from Joseph Edgar, Ooumou Soumaré, Solange Campagne & les PAïENS !

Created by the French Ministry of Culture in 1982, la Fête de la Musique is now celebrated on the day of the summer solstice in more than 110 countries and 250 cities on five continents. On the Web, since 2003, “Echos of the Fête” has provided the online community with a photographic world tour of the festivities. And for this 25th edition, a webcast will round things out with 24 hours of music, interviews and observations from all over the world. See www.fetedelamusique.culture.fr and www.21juin2006.net

June 23th
Sunseeker Ball, Kingston NB (web site: leftyproductions.com)
Les Païens hit the stage 'round 6:30 pm.

APRIL 21ST 2006

Thanks to Duane Lowe and crew of the Noon show on Global for letting us go nuts live on tv!

GIGS!!!

April 22d
Saint-John with Tala @ Elwood

April 29th
During the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, les Païens will be playing the soundtrack to some poetry for an evening called A Païens Celebration of Words.
Readings by: Zakes Mda, Nicolas Dickner, Carole Langille, Emma Haché, Kwame Dawes, Louis Hamelin, Shauntay Grant and Christian Roy
Admission: $10
Aberdeen Cultural Centre, 3rd floor - 140 Botsford St.

May 6th
St-Andrews @ Paddlefest

May 11th
Moncton @ with Vanderpark

May 20th
Edmundston- Showcase for Music NB week

May 26th & 27th
Fredericton @ the Capitol

June 16th
Halifax @ the Attic

June 21st
International music day in Moncton...venue to be announced.

June 23d
Sunseeker Ball, Kingston NB

some pics sent to us from Gig-goers!

In St-John, dec 2005
(pic by one of the guys from Thelma)

Live in Paris, march 2006
(pic by Didier Osso)

the after gig jam in Paris
(pic by Didier Osso)

Side Stage @ the Manhattan, march 2006
(pics by Gerry Cormier)

We had a great time at the ECMA's! Thanks to all who came to the showcase. Big thanks to Melanie and James (our business people) for a job well done during the weekend. Thanks to Alain Richard who took this photo during our set!

We're off to France and Switzerland from march 21st to march 27. When we get back we hope to tour around a bit and play as much as possible!! We're currently writing new material for our next studio album.

Notice the new stuff on the site... This is the "let's get it up now" version! ;) We'll be posting mores pictures and mp3s very soon...plus the archives are on the way! What's there to do? You can join our e-mailing list, have some fun, look and listen to stuff, drop us a line in our forum. Just brows around...this site is for you! Enjoy!