{"id":5990,"date":"2016-04-13T20:25:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/un-couple-inspirant\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:04:21","slug":"an-inspiring-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/an-inspiring-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"An inspiring couple"},"content":{"rendered":"

D\u00e9gelis \u2013 Martha and Camille Ouellet from D\u00e9gelis have the same passion, traditional music, mostly the accordion.\u00a0 They share with other seniors their pleasure of playing this instrument.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00abOnce or twice a month, we will volunteer in seniors\u2019 residences.\u00a0 We do so for our own pleasure and to entertain others: people sing along with us\u00bb, says Camille Ouellet expressing the bond during those visits.<\/p>\n

\u00abI never made a living from this\u00bb, says the 72 year old man. \u00a0There was a time where Camille Ouellet would play three nights per week, two hours each time, as a volunteer musician for seniors.<\/p>\n

\u00abMusic takes away depression\u00bb, says Martha Ouellet who, as well as playing the accordion, uses other instruments like the harmonica, the bombard and percussion instruments, mainly with dried bones and a washboard.\u00a0 In addition to providing great moments to seniors, the couple also accepts to play several pieces on Thursdays during evenings organised by the Chevaliers de Colomb de D\u00e9gelis.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

FROM AN EARLY AGE<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00abAt 14 years old, I would play music to make people dance in the kitchen at home.\u00a0 I started playing the harmonica at 8 years old.\u00a0 My grandfather, who was Irish, also played the accordion\u00a0\u00bb, says Mrs. Ouellet.<\/p>\n

\u00abMy father played the harmonica.\u00a0 At 7 years old my mother gave me a small accordion for Christmas\u00bb, remembers Mr. Ouellet. \u00abGrowing up I would play with other people\u2019s accordions.\u00a0 I was 33 years old when I got my first accordion, a Hohner with two rows.\u00a0 I went to work in Baie James and started practicing.\u00a0 When I play I think of other things\u00bb, he says. \u00a0People from the area could have possibly heard him during a gala or possibly on a CD, since he has recorded four. \u00a0He has participated on a fifth one, with a group called CMR which was formed four years ago with his wife and with Richard Martin (keyboards and guitar).\u00a0 \u00abWe have over 400 songs in our repertoire as well as 400 instrumental pieces\u00bb, mentioned the amateur artist.<\/p>\n

A UNIFYING INSTRUMENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It can be said that the accordion has been a unifying instrument in the life of Mr. and Mrs. Ouellet.<\/p>\n

\u00abWe are together since 2008 when she came to get her accordion fixed and that is how our love started\u00bb, reveals Mr. Ouellet. \u00abHe asked me if I was a widow?\u00bb, says Mrs. Ouellet. Nothing prevented them from being together since Mr. Ouellet was also a widow. He repairs accordions since 40 years.<\/p>\n

Camille Ouellet has participated in several festivals with this instrument.\u00a0 In 2014, while he was Grand Chevalier du conseil 10068 des Fronti\u00e8res, he was coordinator of the first regional accordion festival of D\u00e9gelis organised by the Chevaliers de Colomb. \u00a0\u00a0Last year there was more than 60 accordion players from all over the province. \u00a0In 2016, the third edition was on August 6 and 7.\u00a0 \u00abWe notice that the young people use this instrument and contribute to uphold the traditional\u00a0music\u00bb<\/p>\n

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D\u00e9gelis \u2013 Martha and Camille Ouellet from D\u00e9gelis have the same passion, traditional music, mostly the accordion.\u00a0 They share with other seniors their pleasure of playing this instrument.\u00a0 \u00abOnce or twice a month, we will volunteer in seniors\u2019 residences.\u00a0 We do so for our own pleasure and to entertain others: people sing along with us\u00bb, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-test-pertinant-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6991,"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/6991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accesresidences.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}