Photo credit : Laurence Campbell
Jean-François Bélanger’s favourite instruments are not of the common variety. They include the nyckelharpa, the kontrabasharpa, the tenorharpa – a kind of keyed fiddle used in traditional Swedish music – as well as the Hardanger violin, a Norwegian variant. Over the past three years, Bélanger, who has enlisted the services of some 20 hand-picked musicians, has been fine-tuning his second album, Les entrailles de la montagne, devoted to Scandinavian influences and instruments. He is now ready to bring it out on stage.
