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Radio-Canada recevait Crystal Plamondon
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/alberta/dossiers/detail.asp?Pk_Dossiers_regionaux=347&Pk_Dossiers_regionaux_page=616&VCh=6%3A05%3A00+PM


Hello Crystal...

Je viens de recevoir les deux CD's Aujourd hui..
Ils auront mis 21 jours !!! Incroyables..!!
Merci Beaucoup!
Le son est Super.. et les chansons très bien choisies..
J'adore ce melande de musique country et de musique Canadienne.. Cela a un
son tres particulier mais tres attachant...
Donc, J 'adore..!!!

Un interview serait le bienvenu dans les jours qui viennnent, cela
permettrait de presenter ta musique a mes auditeurs de Nouvelle Calédonie

Bien Amicalement
JLuc

Jean-Lu Leroux
PO BOX 2071
98 846 NOUMEA
NOUVELLE CALEDONI
Here is my web stie :
http://countrydanseetmusiquenc.lagoon.nc/emission.htm
New Caledonia


From Le Franco, January 2010

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Salut Crystal,
 C'est toujours un plaisir de te recevoir. Je te souhaite tout le succès possible avec ce nouveau disque, qui dévoile une partie de toi que nous ne connaissions pas et qui est magnifique.
 Continue comme ça!
 amitiés,
 François
 
____________________________ François V. Pageau Chef des services français Manager, French Services Radio-Canada Alberta --------------------------------------------------------

Central Music Festival video
Via YouTube

La face cachée de... Crystal Plamondon
Cet été, Le téléjournal propose une série de reportages dans lesquels une personnalité viendra dévoiler une partie d'elle-même méconnue du grand public. Crystal Plamondon est une vedette de la chanson dans la francophonie albertaine. Si son dévouement pour la musique, la nature et la simplicité est connu de son public, sa passion pour les croix l'est beaucoup moins, constate Marie-Claude Guay.
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Le retour de Crystal Plamondon
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Les travaux reprennent le rythme
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Le succès musical sans la victoire au Chant’Ouest
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Western artists featured in lineup for third annual Central Music Festival in August
By Lana Michelin - Red Deer Advocate
Published: June 16, 2009

The Central Music Festival is no Edmonton folk fest ­— and organizer Mike Bradford wants to capitalize on all the positive reasons why. More...

LE PRIX CHFA DE LA CHANSON ALBERTAINE 2009 À CRYSTAL PLAMONDON
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Plamondon finds rebirth out of depression
 BY PETER NORTH, FREELANCE

Like so many of her music-making peers, Crystal Plamondon finds the ways and means to create and release new music.Twenty years ago, she popped up on the local scene, without any advance warning, and added some Cajun spice to our roots music mix. Now Plamondon is back with a new disc titled On A Song and A Prayer. More...


Life stories in song: Crystal Plamondon draws inspiration out of personal drama
By Lana Michelin - Red Deer Advocate
Published: March 13, 2009 4:00 AM
In the seven years since her last CD, Crystal Plamondon has acquired plenty of “life stories” to inspire her next song collection.Her parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, a dear friend died of cancer, and Plamondon was briefly and unhappily married to an American. She also lived in Louisiana — both before and after the devastation of hurricanes Rita and Katrina. More....

Singer Crystal Plamondon here to support fundraiser
03/11/09
by Mark Weber - Red Deer Express
Singer Crystal Plamondon slides into a string of genres with ease, from heartwenching ballads to searing blends of country/rock to zydeco.
She been perfecting her craft for about 20 years now, and fans can check out tunes from her latest disc On a Song & a Prayer at the Elks Lodge March 20. More...


Plamondon to play Carlsons
by Evan Careen High River Times
Posted March 14
A bilingual songstress will be hitting the stage at Carlson’s on Macleod Friday. Crystal Plamondon, who hails from the northern Alberta hamlet that bears her surname, will be having a C.D. release party for her fourth offering On a Song & a Prayer. More...


Bluegrass, Cajun-infused country, and the rockin’ blues come to town tonight.
by Donald Teplyske
Red Deer Advocate
Grasstowne, a fabulous and fresh quintet from the United States, appear in the final Waskasoo Bluegrass concert for the season at Festival Hall this evening. Tickets at the door for a 7:30 start. Across town, Alberta’s Crystal Plamondon holds a CD release celebration at the Elks Lodge. More...


ARTIST IN OUR MIDST
by Pam Brown
Chinook Country Post
www.chinookcountrypost.com
April 9, 2009

This week's artist, Crystal Plamondon, holds the title of Canada's own Cajun Queen, a title by which she's known to her fans in Louisiana, Canada, and France. The first time I saw her perform was at the Diamond Valley Christmas Concert several years ago, and she brought the audience almost immediately to their feet. She exudes an incredibly high level of energy that is most infectious. Whether heart-warming ballads, rockin' country or foot-stomping zydeco, Crystal's music connects with her audience.
Crystal was born in Plamondon, a village in northern Alberta founded by her Franco-American great-grandfather. She is tri-lingual (French, English & Cree)and her songs reflect her heritage--her influences include French-Canadian folklore, Cajun/Zydeco rhythms, and spiritual echoes of the aboriginal people that inhabit the lakeland area where she grew up.
Over her twenty-year career she has acquired a long list of accoplishments: She received an ARIA (Alberta Recording Industry Award) in 1992; was nominated in '93 for the YWCA's Tribute to Women Award for Arts & Culture. Her first album had two No. 1 hits, back-to-back, in France. She was awarded Prix Sylvie Van Brabant for Excellence in Artisque Creation in Alberta in 2004, and played the lead in a musical, Cow-boy Poetre, in 2005. That same year she wrote, performed and MC'd a concert for Alberta Scene at The Canadian Museum of Civilization Theatre and appeared in CBC Alberta's centennial celebratory show, Alberta Bound. She has played world-wide, from Parliment Hill to Benin, West Africa. She's hosted numerous television, radio and live events and has acted in movies, TV and on stage.
After taking a two-year hiatus, last year she performed in selective live performances, and just a few weeks ago, released her fourth CD, "On a Song & a Prayer". It's been described as "heartfelt prairie roots music, with just the right amount of Cajun Spice". Ten of the thirteen tracks are original tunes, four were composed and performed in French. "Crystal fashions each song on this album into a vibrant quilt that celebrates the power of friendships and family ties." The song "Forever More" from the album was chosen for CBC TV's new series, "Heartland". And in a leap of faith, the title track , "On a Song & a Prayer", was recorded live off the floor in one take.
Oh, and there's one accomplishment I forgot to mention: Crystal has been made an honorary citizen of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. We're fortunate she's "in our midst", especially with the winter we've had this year. (I would have been tempted....)