The Beautiful Veillée
The Quebec trade party in Saint-Casimir — concerts, workshop and vigil at Les Grands Bois · Saint-Casimir, MRC de Portneuf, Quebec, Canada
The festival
In Saint-Casimir, Portneuf, the fall ends in traditional music: La Belle Veillée, the trad des Grands Bois festival, co-organized with the Société des arts traditionnels de Portneuf (SATRAP), returns for a fourth edition on Saturday, November 7, 2026: dance workshop at 1:30 p.m., followed by the big vigil at 8 p.m. with Nicolas Pellerin and Les Grands Hurleurs and Mauve Fougère. A day and an evening to make live Quebec's musical heritage in the heart of the village, between the Théâtre des Grands Bois and Café RNGO: concerts, traditional dance workshop and the spirit of the great vigils of yesteryear.
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The festival in images
Official visuals of the festival (lesgrandsbois.com and its Lepointdesale ticket office).
Good to know
Saturday 7 November: traditional dance workshop in the afternoon at the Théâtre des Grands Bois (13:30), then Nicolas Pellerin and Les Grands Hurleurs, with Mauve Fougère, in the evening at Les Grands Bois (20:00). Sunday 8 November: Route 138 at Café RINGO (14:00). Online posts via Lepointdevente.com. Places: Les Grands Bois, 415 Tessier Street East, and Café RINGO, 175 Tessier Street East, Saint-Casimir. Created in 2023, the festival is the trade-in meeting of the autumn of Portneuvois — to be distinguished from La Commission B, the other festival of the Grands Bois, which opens the summer in June.